Mo Fest Returns!

[BigDag]

See Scott Aiges' post at the bottom of the "Across the Pond" thread.

[texasyokel]

Here it is:

ScottAiges
Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 1

Mo' Fest Returns

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Hey all!

I haven't posted on here in a long time, mostly because I haven't had anything to add. But now I do.

As some of you know, I used to work in the Mayor's Office, where I produced a little event called MO Fest. Thanks to all of you who have posted with kind comments.

I'm happy to report that as of November I've been Director of Programs and Marketing at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns Jazz Fest and uses the proceeds for various community development activities.

Part of our new strategy is to produce a lot more events. Late last year we did Fiesta Latina, the New Orleans Blues Festival and a Thanksgiving concert called Down By the Riverside.

We have a lot more on the books for 2007 -- including the return of Mo' Fest. (Before, the "MO" stood for Mayor's Office. Now we're just calling it Mo' Fest, which is what everyone thought it was, anyway.) Officially, it will be a production of the Jazz & Heritage Foundation, but my friends and former colleagues in the Mayor's Office have agreed to co-sponsor the event to help it succeed.

The dates will be the same as in 2003, 2004 and 2005 -- that is, the Monday and Tuesday between Jazz Fest weekends, April 30 and May 1 of 2007. It will be at the same place, the Hibernia Pavilion at Woldenberg Park. It will still be free. The hours will be slightly different -- noon to 7 pm, not 9 pm as we did before (don't want to take any business from local restaurants or clubs).

Still working on the lineup, but I've got a few pretty good ideas and hope it will be as fun as before. But if any of you saw the last one, in 2005, with Dr. John and Art Neville trading choruses on side-by-side B3 organs, you'll know that it'd be pretty hard to top that.

Our web site, www.nojhf.org, is about to undergo a major overhaul. It will be reborn sometime in February as www.jazzandheritage.org. Meanwhile, you can see us at www.MySpace.com/neworleansjazzheritagefoundation.

Please help me spread the word that Mo' Fest is coming back. Especially for those who are traveling to New Orleans, we want them to know that it'll be worth staying a few extra days.

Thanks again, and hope to see you back here soon.

Scott


(Great News!)

[VWGal]

Awesome news! And if you didn't have it already, FOMS is setting in! So much to do and so little time...

[PaulC]

the best just got better.....

[hogan20a]

Anyone have an email address for scott by any chance? I'd like to email him about photographing Mo Fest htis year.

Thanks,
Adam

[NOLA]

First I gotta worry about scoring a ticket to the Patry, and now this.

FOMS in the extreme.

[Jada]

Great news!

[swag]

Anyone have an email address for scott by any chance? I'd like to email him about photographing Mo Fest htis year.

Thanks,
Adam

Courtesy of Google, I find that it's available on this very site:
http://www.nojazzfest.com/chat/archive/index.php/t-288.html

[funkkjunkie]

Awesome news. And it will reduce crowd size at the lmf instores...maybe. YYR on the patry and mofest foms. it about killed me to leave mofest and miss dr john and poppa funk.

[Freakwinox]

Anyone remember who was in that trombone line-up at mo fest a few years back? Must of been 11-12 trombones but can't remember who other than the bonerama contingent.

Awesome that mo' fest is coming back.