Musicians Solidarity Second Line

[mangoon]

http://www.bayoubuzz.com/News/Louisiana/Business/Louisiana_Business_Shorts_New_Orleans_Music_Protes t_Jobs_French_Quarter_Shaw_Group__4432.asp

Not sure if this was posted before.

[Belle]

MUSIC LOVERS OUTSIDE NEW ORLEANS: We need your help.

Attend live performances when you visit the city, purchase CD’s featuring New Orleans musicians, and support non-profit organizations that provide assistance to musicians and preserve New Orleans culture.

I know this bored does, now if I could get the outside world where I live to do the same. heck they think New Orleans hardly exists after "the Bitch"

Very good post and thanks for it mangoon!

[bywterbro]

MUSIC LOVERS OUTSIDE NEW ORLEANS: We need your help.

Attend live performances when you visit the city, purchase CD’s featuring New Orleans musicians, and support non-profit organizations that provide assistance to musicians and preserve New Orleans culture.

I know this bored does, now if I could get the outside world where I live to do the same. heck they think New Orleans hardly exists after "the Bitch"

Very good post and thanks for it mangoon!


keep up the energy belle and mangoon....even with folks you dont
think care about what happened in the gulf....i find lots of times
those folks go home...sleep on it....and have a different attitude
later on.....and if one new person gets on board, they will effect
many others.....alot of people are still not well informed....

[bywterbro]

Happiness and hope with a personal touch are this group's gift to New Orleans

Chris Rose

Living in New Orleans accustoms one to strange sights in the streets, but a small group of visitors from South Carolina managed the near impossible this past weekend: They made a small spectacle of themselves.

It was Katrina that drew them here, like tens of thousands before them over the past two years. But instead of gutting houses or rebuilding a playground or cleaning a park, their goal was considerably less material, more on the warm and fuzzy side -- and borderline futile -- but that made it all the more noteworthy.

They were here to embrace those immortal words of Tennessee Williams: the kindness of strangers.

They call themselves the Happiness Krewe and that pretty much sums up their mission: to spread a little joy along the broken boulevards of Katrina City.

Dressed in red cardboard sandwich boards in the shapes of hearts, adorned with capes, boas and beads, and blaring away on kazoos and tambourines, the nine members of the Happiness Krewe walked the streets of the 9th Ward and Treme, handing out gifts from their native state and randomly greeting residents with messages of brotherhood and solidarity.

heres the rest of the article..

http://blog.nola.com/chrisrose/2007/07/group_leaves_behind_some_carol.html

[Belle]

That sure made me smile and get misty. Thanks for that! Humanity needs more kindness...hardly meaningless.

[mangoon]

Great story bro .

[Corona]

oh man, that's just fantastic. What a great idea they had and I can only imagine how many hearts they touched, even for a little bit. Amazing people....and such an uplifting story :)

[bywterbro]

i hope every neighborhood starts doing this on a different nite of the week...
magazine st......frenchmen st......press st.......oak st,. st. charles ....etc..
this a great thing for the city...


On Friday August 17, the streets of the French Quarter will be alive
with the sound of New Orleans? Brass Bands. This is the kick-off of
the French Quarter Brass Band Series 2007 featuring the Soul Rebel
Brass Band. On every Friday through September 21, a free Brass Band
parade will start at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, parade over 20 blocks
of the French Quarter, pick up second liners and end at the steps of
the Louisiana Supreme Court Building to play a Brass Band concert.
This new cultural experience is spearheaded by the French Quarter
Business Association. The lineup will be as follow:

August 17 - Soul Rebels Brass Band
August 24 - Storyville Stompers
August 31 - Pin Stripe Brass Band
September 7 - Treme Brass Band
September 14 - Bone Tone Brass Band
September 21 - Algiers Brass Band.

The second line marching band parade is one of the great New Orleans
cultural traditions. For centuries, it has celebrated life and death,
jazz funerals and Mardi Gras parades. New Orleanians never tire of
seeing and hearing the Bands and visitors are amazed and surprised
exuberance of a second line parade.

Sandra Shilstone, President and CEO of the New Orleans Tourism
Marketing Corporation, loves a parade, "We know that our leisure
visitors come for the music, the history, the architecture of the
French Quarter and the food. As we rebuild our City, The New Orleans
Tourism Marketing Corporation will keep reminding everyone that our
spirit is strong and our deepest cultural assets are here to enjoy
right now."

The parade, complete with carriages and Kern Sculpture?s special
creations, starts at 5: 30 at the 700 block of Orleans Street and
strolls through more than 20 blocks of the French Quarter. All second
line dancers, marchers and handkerchief wavers are invited to join all
along the route. At 6:15 the Brass Band will play on the steps of the
Louisiana Supreme Court Building. Beer, wine and light refreshment
will be available to purchase.