I don’t know if Sara Roahen can swing a hammer, but she sure has a way with words and food and her new book “Gumbo Tales” is a big contribution to rebuilding New Orleans’ culture and sharing it with the rest of the world. The book is excellent: entertaining, thorough,...
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About The FoodMusicJustice Project
In the dark years after the failure of the US Army Corps of Engineers levees (don’t call it Katrina), Jazz on the Tube produced a few hundred short articles in support of New Orleans. We also shot a lot of original video.
Unfortunately, hackers destroyed most of this site while we were focused on other matters and much of this priceless archival work was lost.
We’re in the process of trying to reconstruct it, a laborious and expensive process.
What we have been able to salvage so far were notes about our “Manchester Loves New Orleans” Project. The goal was to stimulate musical and artistic exchanges between the UK’s hippest music city and New Orleans.
The two cities have strong historical connections. If you throw Liverpool into the mix, the case can be made that modern pop music was invented by a collaboration between these two places.
– Ken McCarthy
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Mardi Gras 2008 – Five things that tickled me
This is my last post for the 2008 Carnival season…Enjoy! More from the Muses Parade. Butterflies. One of countless local school marching bands. Everyone talks about “troubled youth.” Why don’t these disciplined, dedicated kids get any credit? A variation on the...
Mardi Gras morning 2008
I drove down Napoleon several hours before the Mardi Gras parades started. Yes, that is living room furniture lining the parade route. People here take their parades very seriously. What’s with the ladders? The ones with milk crates on the top with one side cut out...
Mardis Gras Indians at DBA – Mardi Grass 2008
I shot these two at DBA on the weekend before Mardi Gras 2008. Japanese documentary about the Mardi Gras Indians. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/AZJWfrL-baA” width=”425″ height=”350″/]
Muses Parade New Orleans Mardi Gras 2008
Some footage from the Muses Parade, one of over 25 major parades during Carnival season in New Orleans. This is just a tiny slice of the parade and I don’t even show the floats which are significant. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/xKvwcosokWY”...
