SUNday...i just saw it

[papafrog]

blue sky2......
Mamadou Diabate
Grilled chix livers w/peppermint jelly, greens and rice..

[festbabe]

Sweet!

[Amyloves...]

I see SUN!!! I wondered to myself...hmm, what is that bright spot.......and then figured it out. Staaaaaaaaayyyyyy sssssuuuuunnnnnnnn!!!!

[ibjamn]

The sun shined on us as we were leaving Mother's an hour ago, full of grits, debris & biscuits. (I need to lie down!) Stay SUNNNNNNnnnnnnn!!

[Amyloves...]

WOOOOHOOOO!!! The Lostcajun and I just went outside to honor the Sun. We've now made drinks and are going back out to toast the Sun. Why does my husband think we're all freaks?
STAAAAYYYYYY SSSSSUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mdfest]

I've been in town 10 minutes. Coincidence? I think not.

[pokerchick66]

I've been in town 10 minutes. Coincidence? I think not.

ROFLMAO!

[Amyloves...]

This is lost cajun. Hey, MD love you, thanks for the sun and you're full of shit, brah.

[Amyloves...]

This is Amy. Hey MD, I can't stand you and you're full of shit!:D

[Rossvegas]

I don't even know you and I think you're full of shit....

[mdfest]

still sunny.. just sayin.

[mdfest]

I'm gettng sunburned
tsa took m sunblock. if I see a terrorist I'm gonna punch him in the face.

gumbo and I are on a date to delbert

[t-bird]

I'm gettng sunburned
tsa took m sunblock. if I see a terrorist I'm gonna punch him in the face.

gumbo and I are on a date to delbert

Knowing you, ya prolly LOOKED suspiciously terrorist-like... just sayin'

give M-T-Rad a hug for me (ya know ya wanna!)

[sophisticated sissy]

Jazzfest = swamp fest
Posted by Keith Spera, Music writer, The Times-Picayune April 27, 2008 5:03PM
Categories: Jazzfest

By 5 p.m., the rains had moved on from the Fair Grounds, but the water remained. Ducks and children reveled in newly formed bayous, swamps and mudholes.

The Acura Stage field, especially, is a mess. The depression that arcs around the field and normally serves as an unofficial walkway is now a moat, 20 feet wide in places and more than a foot deep. The guest area at the side of the Acura Stage is a lagoon. In an uphill battle to drain the area, fest staffers installed pumps; their droning racket competed with Irma Thomas.

Anyone wanting herbal tea from a both in Food Area 2 was forced to order while standing in ankle-deep water. People splashed around in a new lake nearby that rendered picnic tables islands.

But the music continues. Fans sloshed around in deep muck at the Jazz & Heritage Stage while dancing to the Midnight Disturbers Brass Band, an all-star aggregation assembled by drummers Stanton Moore of Galactic and Kevin O'Day.

Most members wore a black T-shirt with red letters on the front urging people to "Listen to..." somone. Moore's shirt named James Black, the late great architect of modern jazz drumming in New Orleans; Moore's three-year-old daughter sported a pink shirt advertising Zigaboo Modeliste of the Meters. Galactic saxophonist Ben Ellman's plugged the late Fred "Shep" Sheppard. Bonerama trombonist Mark Mullins' shirt remembered his late bandmate Brian O'Neal. Trumpeter Kenneth Terry saluted Dave Bartholomew. Trombonist "Big" Sam Williams memorialized Frog Joseph. Taking an existential approach, saxophonist Skerik's shirt said, "Listen to yourself."

The sprawling assemble boasts the most diverse and unlikely resume of any brass band in town. But they sounded exactly like a brass band should: Simultaneously tight and loose. Chants of "oo-na-nay" and "handa wanda yo mama," not to mention the random kids and women dancing onstage, made the Midnight Disturbers all the more authentic.

[sophisticated sissy]

Shamarr Allen - Passing on Traditions

Posted by Etienne Francois April 27, 2008 1:46PM
Categories: WWOZ Jazz Fest 2008


Trumpeter and educator Shamarr Allen treated an appreciative audience at the Jazz and Heritage Stage to a hot set of traditional and contemporary standards. He was joined by his 11-year-old brother, Khalid Allen, a sixth grade student at Alice Harte Charter School in Algiers. Khalid dazzled the crowd with his version of Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Jude."

Shamarr Allen, a regular with Bob French's Original Tuxedo Jazz Band and a former member of the ReBirth Brass Band, released his first solo CD, Meet Me on Frenchman Street, last November.

Over the last few years, Shamarr has emerged as an music teacher and educator, leading free music clinics for youngsters in association with the grass-roots community organization, Silence is Violence. For more information on the music clinics led by Shamarr, visit the Silence is Violence website.

[ScoopJohnD]

YAY Sun!!!! :)

[Lester_leaps_in]

Mamadou Diabate


OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!

That was awesome the way "awesome" was before we applied the word to pizza.

OMG!!!

My first weekend mystical moment.

Holy chit!!!

(Did I mention that I liked the set?)

[swag]

Midnight Disturbers.

For me, the set of the weekend, despite the monsoon & the muck. Wow.

[papafrog]

OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!

That was awesome the way "awesome" was before we applied the word to pizza.

OMG!!!

My first weekend mystical moment.

Holy chit!!!

(Did I mention that I liked the set?)

glad u dug it lester....
it was so good i went to see them again at the lagniappe stage to close
out the day....in fact the sound was better there.....

[rosetree]

I've been in town 10 minutes. Coincidence? I think not.

Did you leave town at 3:00????:eek:

[ScoopJohnD]

YAY Sun!!!! :)

Ooops.

[festbabe]

..

That was awesome the way "awesome" was before we applied the word to pizza.

..



That's a pretty descriptive phrase :)

[festbabe]

YAY Sun!!!! :)

Ooops.

Nah - I'm a believer in celebrating what/when you can. Even the fleeting moments.

[revjimk]

Sophisticated Sissy
Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Jude"???
Is that anything like the Beatles "Hey Joe"?
rev