Jonathan Demme Right to Return on PBS. When I was in New Orleans in January, I ran into one of Jonathan Demme’s cameramen shooting a church service in the Lower Ninth Ward. A video promo with Demme talking about the resulting program – a five day series called Right...
FoodMusicJustice Archive
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
FoodMusicJustice
Still waiting for FEMA
It’s one of the most important sites in the history of American and world music and just a few steps from the legendary French Quarter: Congo Square, New Orleans. It’s the one place in North America where Africans were given one day a week to gather and play music...
CHAT triumphs
FoodMusicJustice has been helping two New Orleans-based organizations with technical and promotional help: Levees.org and CHAT (th Citizens Road Home Action Team.) Levees.org is making sure that the world knows that it was the failure of federally built and maintained levees that caused the destruction of New Orleans. CHAT has been working to make the the “Road […]
Levees.org does it again
Our friends at Levee.org have done it again. They’ve put the focus back on the levees and the Army Corps of Engineers and their corruption – here it belongs. One minute tells the whole story…
Arrested for singing?
Jazz, R&B, Rock and roll, funk – it’s what America is known and loved for, and it all came out of New Orleans. In New Orleans, it’s hard to imagine a more fertile musical garden than the neighborhood called the Treme, just across Rampart Street from the French...
