The plan for reviving the relationship between Manchester and New Orleans is simple. Bring New Orleans artists, musicians, scholars etc. to Manchester and welcome Manchester folks to visit New Orleans. Last spring, we got the ball rolling by hosting Manchester poet...
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
Relative influence and concentrated musical power
I love the music of places like Cuba and Brazil and God knows they have had a massive influence on the course of world music. But let’s look at a few numbers for perspective. The current population of Brazil is over 191 million people (191.000.000.) Cuba has over 11...
“Red” Allen (1908-1967) – New Orleans musician honored in Manchester in 1964
From an article about Henry James Allen, Jr, jazz great “In the fall of 1959 Red accompanied Kid Ory and his Dixielanders to Europe – it was Red’s first visit and he enjoyed it immensely, as did European audiences, reviewers, and critics. Red was particularly...
Manchester New Orleans Tony Wilson
From the book “24 Hour Party People” pgs 205-206 by Tony Wilson A half-hour profile – sorry – small, cheap documentary, of the textile billionaire David Alliance, big boss of Coates Viyella, answered the question, ‘why Manchester?’ once and for all. Alliance was...
Manchester New Orleans connection – short version
New Orleans and Manchester have a history together that goes way back – but everyone forgets because no one on the US side of the ocean asks the question: “Where did the cotton from New Orleans go?” To Manchester, where textile mill workers – including children as...
Thelonious Monk