View Full Version : FEST REPORTS for Saturday, April 25th
Lostcajun
04-25-2009, 08:13 AM
Yesterday, sounded great. Look forward to hearing about Saturday, especially the size of the crowd. Hope it is a good one for NOJHF. FEST ON!
ibjamn
04-25-2009, 09:00 AM
WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!! First report of the day! ;)
It's 7:59am, already had coffee and lathered up in sunscreen. The beginnings of guests stirring around upstairs. I have the fest bag repacked from yesterday and I'm dreaming of my first bloody mary........It's another beautiful day, ya'll!
Lostcajun
04-25-2009, 09:02 AM
no more cleaning, vaccuming, lawn mowing?
WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!! First report of the day! ;)
It's 7:59am, already had coffee and lathered up in sunscreen. The beginnings of guests stirring around upstairs. I have the fest bag repacked from yesterday and I'm dreaming of my first bloody mary........It's another beautiful day, ya'll!
Hi Ms.Jenn, So glad to hear everyone is having such a good time...I can almost taste the bloody marys. Have a great day!!
i wanna be in NOLA
04-25-2009, 09:06 AM
YAY! Thanks for the checkin, jenn. Have a great Festday!!!
Fred (Texas JF Fanatic)
04-25-2009, 09:44 AM
getting ready to head out in 20 mins.
looking forward to my first bloody mary on fest morning
BigDag
04-25-2009, 09:48 AM
getting ready to head out in 20 mins.
looking forward to my first bloody mary on fest morning
See you at Liuzza's, Fred.
I have to buy Steely Dan tickets at 10 this morning; then I'll head out and join you.
ibjamn
04-25-2009, 10:14 AM
getting ready to head out in 20 mins.
looking forward to my first bloody mary on fest morning
See you at Liuzza's, Fred.
I have to buy Steely Dan tickets at 10 this morning; then I'll head out and join you.
See ya there, guys! :)
tangledupinblue
04-25-2009, 10:33 AM
See ya there, guys! :)
I am in dat number!!!
jolie
04-25-2009, 10:48 AM
We're heading out now... Gonna be parked at Gentilly most of the day, will prolly walk over for Paul Sanchez & The Rolling Road Show.. See Y'all at the Fairgrounds!!!!!!
Lostcajun
04-25-2009, 05:14 PM
Looking forward to reports!
rosetree
04-25-2009, 05:43 PM
From NOLA.com
http://www.nola.com/jazzfest/index.ssf/2009/04/a_wee_bit_of_praise_on_the_lag.html
Awesome....Go Glen David!
Belle
04-25-2009, 06:14 PM
no more cleaning, vaccuming, lawn mowing?
I worked concessions for 16 teams for a track invitational. Beat to death but hitting a neighbors hot tub in a few. MY BACK IS KILLING ME. Ten hours of schlepping cases of drinks, LP tanks and selling hundreds of hot dogs and hamburgers. I am too old for this !!!! I hate it now but loved it then.
Kurt I need a hug!!!
Lostcajun
04-25-2009, 08:26 PM
(((((((Belle)))))))))))))
Runaround Al
04-25-2009, 09:31 PM
Beautiful day. Warm but nice breezes most of the day and big, sun blocking, cooling clouds late. Good crowds but totally managebale. Highlights for me were Rebirth, Irma, John Mooney, Wilco and Johnny Winter's closing Highway 61. Saturday's JF "wow" moment came in the gospel tent during "The Annointed Jackson Singers" set. Holy...
ibjamn
04-25-2009, 10:43 PM
- That is without a doubt the best Rolling Road Show set I've ever seen!
- The trout bacquet was the best thing I ate today
- Both John Mooney & Johnny Winter kicked ass in the blues tent
But by far & away the most moving set on the fairgrounds today was Pete Seeger. We were up front for him and he stood, sang, told stories & played the entire set. An amazing performance, made even more so by his age. The crowd spontaneously sang Happy Birthday to him & he looked touched. I cried during "This Land is Your Land". I had a total 60's flashback!
Another beautiful day on the grounds!
Lostcajun
04-25-2009, 10:53 PM
That's awesome Jenn!
McGregor
04-25-2009, 11:01 PM
http://stevensonblog.tuscaloosanews.com/default.asp?item=2368570&mode=
festbabe
04-25-2009, 11:02 PM
The highlight of the day was Paul's Rolling Road set - I think every TH was there! He had a great crowd. His book is selling like hotcakes in the Book Tent and we had to replenish the supply.
Warmer today - bigger crowds. But still a damn fine day.
chrisjoseph
04-25-2009, 11:08 PM
Paul's RRS was the best I've seen....great, great set. The musicians he's playing with are so, so talented....Shamarr, Alex, Glen David, Sonia T., Mary L. and Andre Bohren (Spencer's son).
Also, I had a magic moment in the Book Tent during Paul's book signing....a woman came up to me and thanked the Threadheads for what we are doing....she has been a cancer patient for over a decade, and essentially said that when she heard about what the Threadheads were doing, that she felt "all is right in the world."
Pete Seeger was great (90 years old!). And the trout was awesome.
jolie
04-25-2009, 11:14 PM
The highlight of the day was Paul's Rolling Road set - I think every TH was there! He had a great crowd. His book is selling like hotcakes in the Book Tent and we had to replenish the supply.
Warmer today - bigger crowds. But still a damn fine day.
Damn Heather.. I missed you?!?
festbabe
04-25-2009, 11:36 PM
Damn Heather.. I missed you?!?
I saw you at the meet up, turned to talk/hug someone else, and when I turned back around you'd gone! I'll find you Sunday!
Staxsun
04-25-2009, 11:40 PM
Damn Heather.. I missed you?!?
You mean you were at the meetup? How'd I miss that?
BigDag
04-26-2009, 12:01 AM
Yeah, she was there. I met her today for the first time.
ozzie
04-26-2009, 02:53 AM
I saw you at the meet up, turned to talk/hug someone else, and when I turned back around you'd gone! I'll find you Sunday!
Meet up? What meet up?
ozzie
04-26-2009, 02:55 AM
Paul's RRS was friggin awesome!
Glad he/we sold some books, but didn't get there. Festbabe is like Get Smart in the book department and deserves a frigging medal! MUAH!
ozzie
04-26-2009, 02:57 AM
Paul's RRS was the best I've seen....great, great set. The musicians he's playing with are so, so talented....Shamarr, Alex, Glen David, Sonia T., Mary L. and Andre Bohren (Spencer's son).
Also, I had a magic moment in the Book Tent during Paul's book signing....a woman came up to me and thanked the Threadheads for what we are doing....she has been a cancer patient for over a decade, and essentially said that when she heard about what the Threadheads were doing, that she felt "all is right in the world."
Pete Seeger was great (90 years old!). And the trout was awesome.
It's amazing... half the local folk I talk to are clueless, yet amazed at what we do. The others are tellingf ME about how wonderful Threadheads are!\
I love my life!
Amyloves...
04-26-2009, 08:11 AM
My Saturday review....
Got there a little late but in time for Paul's AWESOME set...one of best ever I think too. That was a great venue for him and the crowd was totally into it. Glen David's song was awesome and I felt like I was in the Gospel tent. The crowd was drinking in the Rolling Road Show and it was beautiful!!
Pigged out as usual and the food lines were definitely longer than Friday of course....certainly a bigger crowd.
Thought I'd catch a little of Pete Seeger just out of curiosity, and then some Dumpstaphunk. Well, we couldn't tear ourselves away from Pete Seeger....what a cool guy. He was so damn cute and sharp with his stories and humor and enthusiasm. His band was cool and did a great job. What a blast! I saw one of the band members several times around the Fest grounds after that having a good time.
Heard a bit of Galactic after that, with Shamarr sitting in which was a great surprise!
Then it was time for Pete Fountain....the tent was packed and the crowd was pouring out of all of the openings. He sounded great as always. I always go near a speaker outside and call my dad to let him listen to a couple of songs since he loves him but can't handle the Fair Grounds at his age. Dad's voice always breaks when we talk after a song finishes and I end up boo-hooing, but in a good way.
Planned to finish w/ James Taylor, who sounded great vocally, but then we got restless after a while and decided to go to Wilco. That plan was foiled when we got totally distracted and enthralled by Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers at the Fais do do stage. We stayed there till the end and had an amazing time! I never spend much time at that stage but so glad I did. Our 15 year old and her boyfriend had a blast there too. The crowd was a riot and the band was amazing....I've never seen people play the accordion and the washboard anything like they did.
I love Jazzfest!!
ibjamn
04-26-2009, 08:52 AM
I LOVE Dwayne Doopsie!!! But we were at John Mooney & missed him.
BigDag
04-26-2009, 09:00 AM
I'm sorry I missed Pete Fountain. It's so cool that you are able to share some of his set with your Dad. My parents love Pete too; we see him at the Hollywood Casino occassionally.
We enjoyed Paul and the Roadshow while downing a couple dozen on the half shell and some cold drafts, hanging out with Mr. and Ms. Festngator in the shade at the Lagniappe Stage - life just doesn't get much better than that! Festbabe, Pisces Girl, Jolie and JonnyGospelTent came by to say "hi" too...and we saw many other TH's in the crowd. Great set, enthusiastic crowd - a guy next to me who was apparently just there for the ersters asked me "Who ARE these guys" and when I told him he said he'd never heard of them, but "They're great!" which brought a big ol' smile to my face - one more convert!!
Two other highlights for me on Saturday were the Del McCoury Band - just some awesome straight-up bluegrass at the Fais Do Do - and Johnny Winter, who can still shred the axe even though he remained seated throughout the set. Great great set to close out day 2.
I heard reports that Wilco put on a great show too, although I didn't make it over there to hear them.....
I'm sorry I missed Pete Fountain. It's so cool that you are able to share some of his set with your Dad. My parents love Pete too; we see him at the Hollywood Casino occassionally.
My folks loved coming to New Orleans when I was a kid and they'd always talk about going to see Pete Fountain at his club on Bourbon Street - I'm sure there are still quite a few Pete LP's in my Mom's record collection. (I should probably get one of those turntable things that let you record onto a CD for some of her older stuff - they had quite the collection back in the day.)
We saw Pete play with Connie Jones at FQF last weekend - he looked a bit frail, but could still coax those sweet sweet sounds from his clarinet - he finished with "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" which was quite moving despite all the crowd chatter....
jolie
04-26-2009, 09:52 AM
I saw you at the meet up, turned to talk/hug someone else, and when I turned back around you'd gone! I'll find you Sunday!
You mean you were at the meetup? How'd I miss that?
HAA! No actually, I wasn't at the meetup. I saw so many folks at the RRS, I figured it wasn't necessary. I'm gonna make it today though.
tangledupinblue
04-26-2009, 11:18 AM
HAA! No actually, I wasn't at the meetup. I saw so many folks at the RRS, I figured it wasn't necessary. I'm gonna make it today though.
I knew you weren't at the meetup. There is NO WAY I would have missed that. See you today doll.
My legs are shot from all the dancing yesterday.
kdogg6977
04-26-2009, 08:13 PM
What??? A threadhead records artist hits the stage with Glactic and only a couple of small blurbs here and there?????? WOW....I being from NC have not had the priviledge of seeing him live, and I must say...HOLY SHIT@@!! He held a note for longer than any other WIND musician. WOW, WOW, WOW. Be proud of this artist on the label!! I was quite impressed!!! I would/could listen to him for hours and how cool of Galactic to have him out there with them!! Hope to see you all sometime soon...somewhere!!
Belle
04-26-2009, 09:12 PM
What??? A threadhead records artist hits the stage with Glactic and only a couple of small blurbs here and there?????? WOW....I being from NC have not had the priviledge of seeing him live, and I must say...HOLY SHIT@@!! He held a note for longer than any other WIND musician. WOW, WOW, WOW. Be proud of this artist on the label!! I was quite impressed!!! I would/could listen to him for hours and how cool of Galactic to have him out there with them!! Hope to see you all sometime soon...somewhere!!
You speaking of Sharmarr's circualr breathing...if so I know what you mean. Awesome just awesome
Tivia
04-26-2009, 09:56 PM
Oh so cool, I want to be there!!!
Staxsun
04-27-2009, 12:00 AM
HAA! No actually, I wasn't at the meetup. I saw so many folks at the RRS, I figured it wasn't necessary. I'm gonna make it today though.
Didn't see you today, either! Maybe it was because I was slinging beer through the first part?
rosetree
04-27-2009, 12:48 AM
Didn't see you today, either! Maybe it was because I was slinging beer through the first part?
She was there...and only two feet from you across from PC in the booth!
Staxsun
04-27-2009, 09:00 AM
She was there...and only two feet from you across from PC in the booth!
That's what I get for being a dutiful beer slinger.
mariena
04-27-2009, 09:14 AM
I LOVE Dwayne Doopsie!!! .
Me too! I love Dwayne Dopsie. He is on my IPOD, and it is great running music.
rosetree
04-27-2009, 10:44 AM
That's what I get for being a dutiful beer slinger.
....and a very good one at that!!!;) :D
It's funny that we think that because we talk on the Bored, that everyone knows each other! I would have said something if I knew that you were looking for Jolie!
McGregor
04-27-2009, 10:48 AM
http://stevensonblog.tuscaloosanews.com/default.asp?item=2368755&mode=
JF blog
We started Saturday with the Gospel Tent celebration for Sherman Washington who started & headed up the Gospel Tent for many years. Sherman is in his 90s and it was a great tribute to great man. We then caught a few Zydeco songs at Fais Do Do by "Big Hat Man" Thomas Fields before catching the end of the Rolling Road Show and that was great! After filling my stomache we caught most of the Rebirth/Kermit show...very packed!! Next was Irma Thomas and she was was rocking! Headed to the Blues Tent for 2nd row seats for John Mooney and closed the day with a awesome set by Dwayne Dopsie at Fais Do Do.......
Great day.....pretty large crowd.....highlights were the Rolling Road Show (what a line-up!) and Dwayne's set at the end. My wife called it "In your face Zydeco"...I call it excellent.
Jeff from Baltimore
McGregor
04-27-2009, 04:04 PM
http://stevensonblog.tuscaloosanews.com/default.asp?item=2368970
JF blog
jolie
04-27-2009, 05:17 PM
Didn't see you today, either! Maybe it was because I was slinging beer through the first part?
Yep I stopped by for a quick hello as it looked like Monica had no customers.
Was at the meet-up till shortly after 2:00 and attempted to say hello to everyone. Sorry I missed you again Stax. Thursday???