Under The Bridge and Along North Claiborne With the @TBC_BrassBand at the Money Wasters Second-Line

Whenever a downtown second-line reaches the I-10 bridge on North Claiborne, things get kicked up a notch, because there is usually already a crowd under the bridge on Sundays. Some people actually bring coolers, hibachis and lawn chairs and sit under the bridge, watching the custom cars, motorcycles and second-liners that go past. People race go-karts and motorcycles along both directions of North Claiborne, spinning tires and throwing up smokescreens, and gradually the crowd watching that and the crowd in the second-line get joined together. Here the dancing gets more exuberant, for the dancers know they have a large audience, and all of it may also be related to the old neutral ground on Claiborne being an important place for the Black community in Treme prior to the construction of the high-rise interstate overhead.