“Won’t Bow Down On That Dirty Ground”: The Mardi Gras Indians Uptown
When I left the North Claiborne Avenue area, it was dark and I was hungry. I thought about heading on to find something open for …
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Under The Bridge on Claiborne on Mardi Gras Afternoon
It took me nearly an hour to get from Metairie to the North Claiborne Avenue area where TBC Brass Band was supposed to be playing, …
Kicking Off Mardi-Gras Day With The Jefferson City Buzzards and TBC Brass Band
It was my first Mardi Gras morning in New Orleans ever, but it was hardly the stuff of dreams. It was grey, dreary and overcast, …
A Lundi Gras Party in English Turn
The place where the TBC Brass Band had been hired to play for a Lundi Gras party was in an exclusive gated community called English …
Krewe of Orpheus: The Rains Came
Because rain was predicted, the city of New Orleans had moved up the starting times of both Lundi Gras parades by an hour. That had …
Uptown At The Krewe of Proteus Parade
Proteus is one of the old-line Mardi Gras krewes, and the only one of the old original ones to stage a parade on the streets …
Lifting Up With The Mighty Souls Brass Band at Wiseacre Tap Room @WiseacreBrew
Wiseacre Brewing Company is one of the new local microbreweries that have sprung up around Memphis, and they have started booking occasional live music on …
Majorettes and Drummers at Manassas High School
I knew there was to be a massive majorette jamboree at the Manassas High School gym on Saturday afternoon (February 7), so I rode over …
Stud & Cactus Live at the Delta Blues Alley Cafe in Clarksdale
Friday February 6 was some kind of special day for blues apparently, because there were blues performances everywhere. Ori Naftaly was at Lafayette’s Music Room …
Rodney Tate and All-Star Soul and Blues at Memphis’ B. B. King’s
People who know me know that I’m not a huge fan of modern-day Beale Street. In its current garish, Disneyland-like iteration, it seems like a …