Tag: music

The good news is I haven’t had time each day to get online and upload pictures and such and even now I’m just going to dump raw notes and maybe come back to it later: large iced café au lait beignets …to Blues tent to grab seats, then back out for… crab cake and seafood…

Moise & Alida Viator with Eh, La-Bas!, a surprisingly funky creole fusion. I accidentally capture a few seconds of this couple dancing (with crowds streaming between them and the camera): [click pictures for larger shots] When they’re done we head for some large iced café au lait, and b buys some earthernware pottery from Dallas.…

Sue W. reminds me that WWOZ is broadcasting much of the Fest.

…took a bunch of pictures, here are just a few (insterspersed among a quick rundown of music and eats)… large iced café au lait 3 beignets Hackberry Ramblers (Fais Do-Do stage) … their 70th anniversary, fresh back from Europe and the Today Show, their 16th straight year at Fest… some technical difficulties, gremlins, intros, 3rd…

Speaking of Earl King, I was sad to read this obituary for Earl King one of the great New Orleans guitarists. (Times userid: mediajunkie, password: mediajunkie) Most famous outside of NO (and best compensated for) Jimi Hendrix’s cover (as “Let the Good Times Roll”) of his “Come On,” and for the Mardi Gras standard “Big…

So I make this new category for my last entry (“Television”) and what should come up in my iTunes rotation? now playing: "Little Johnny Jewel" by Television [The Blow Up]