I found a good collection of articles by Larry Blumenfeld (including an audio piece.) Larry’s doing a super job of documenting the post-Katrina music scene in New Orleans. Will the music survive? This should be THE question of our time for everyone who cares about the...
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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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An unnatural disaster
The Open Society Institute, a project of George Soros, has funded the creation a very worthwhile web site. Articles, audios, videos about the unnatural disaster – it wasn’t Katrina – that destroyed 80% of one of America’s great cities and the heroic rescue and...
Go Larry!
Larry Blumenfeld is in Toronto today telling the annual conference of international jazz educators what’s going on with the music in New Orleans. Here’s a rough cut of some of David Aman’s video work that Larry will be sharing with the audience: [kml_flashembed...
Jazz educators conference
Larry Blumenfeld will be presenting this week in Toronto at the annual conference of jazz educators. His topic: New Orleans. FoodMusicJustice hooked Larry up with New Orleans videomaker David Aman who produced the video segments Larry will be showing at the...
Carnival Time in New Orleans
January 6…12th Night…Feast of the Epiphany…whatever you call it, this is the day Carnival in New Orleans begins. The multi-week region-wide festival is by far the biggest and most ambitious festival in North America and culminates on Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, which...
