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Monochrome and Infrared

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Here are links to the posts on my blog that contain monochrome and infrared images.  Most of the infrared images are also monochrome but they can also be colour.

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Ring around the moon, Canberra, June 2014

Ring around the moon, Canberra, June 2014

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Perversely, I am illustrating this post with a colour photograph that probably includes the night-time equivalent of a rainbow (though it looks almost monochromatic).

 



Narooma Blues Festival 2014.

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This is a quick preliminary overview post of some images from Narooma Blues Festival, 3rd to 5th October 2014.  It will be another month before I can resume processing the images from this Festival.

Rick Estrin

Rick Estrin (USA)

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Carlos Reyes

Carlos Reyes (Paraguay)

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Ash Grunwald

Ash Grunwald (Australia)

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Linda Bull

Vika Bull (Tonga/ Australia)

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Alison Penney

Alison Penney (Australia)

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Kelly Richey

Kelly Richey (USA)

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You can also see another eighteen images here.


Southwest Canyonlands and New Orleans

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Before I set off on my North Atlantic trip last year, I entered some prints and digital images in the Australian Photographic Society Interstate Competition.  To my great surprise, when I returned I found I had been awarded overall best image and won a Photographic trip for two to New York, sponsored by UDesign Photo Tours.  I swapped that (with some adjustment) for Southwest Canyonlands and at time of writing I am about to leave with my partner Jools (or Julie).  This is the image that won me the trip:

 

Michael Hardy at Canberra Blues Society Xmas Party, 2011

 

Here is the itinerary:

19 October Fly from Canberra to Las Vegas, Nevada.

20 October Helicopter ride over Hoover Dam, Colorado River and Grand Canyon West.  Back to Las Vegas.  Neon Graveyard Museum at night.

21 October Zion National Park (staying at Springdale, Utah).

22 October Zion National Park

23 October Zion National Park to Bryce Canyon National Park (staying at Tropic, Utah).

24 October Bryce Canyon National Park to Capitol Reef National Park (staying in Torrey, Utah or Hanksville, Utah).

25 October Factory Butte to Arches National Park (staying in Moab, Utah).

26 October Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Park.

27 October From Moab via Newspaper Rock petroglyph site to Monument Valley (staying in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park).

28 October Monument Valley to Page Arizona.

29 October Horseshoe Bend and Canyon-X.  (Jools leaves for a conference in Orlando, Florida)

30 October Page Arizona to South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.

31 October Grand Canyon National Park.

1 November Grand Canyon National Park to Flagstaff Arizona.  I pick up rental car from airport and drive to Phoenix Arizona via Sedona.

2 November Fly Phoenix Arizona to New Orleans (and meet up with Jools at the airport)

2 November to 12 November New Orleans

12 November Return flight to Canberra, arriving 14 November due to time zone curiosities.

 

Canyonlands Map

Here is the canyonlands route, from Las Vegas to Phoenix (click for larger size)

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According to my usual method,  I will make some temporary posts during the trip, probably images only.

Then, when I return I will have to finish processing images from Narooma Blues Festival.  I then expect to complete posts for Lofoten Islands, Spitsbergen, Greenland and Iceland before making the final posts for this trip.

 


New Orleans 1

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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2nd to 6th November 2014.

Temporary post. Images only. Preliminary processing.

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 Landscape, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

American Coot in pond, New Orleans Sculpture Garden

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Blues,  Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

The Young Boys (?) on corner of Frenchman and Chartres Sts

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Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Mem Shannon

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Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

In the American Quarter

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Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Dog on Election Day

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Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Beware!

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Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Troy Turner Band

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Blues,  Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Troy Turner

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Blues,  Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Ed Wills

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Blues,  Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Jeff Chaz

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Blues,  Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Another Day In Paradise

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New Orleans 2

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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 6th to 8th November 2014.

Temporary post. Images only. Preliminary processing.

 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Serendipity.

New Orleans Sculpture Garden.

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

New Orleans Sculpture Garden.

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Drummer, Mike Derby and the House of Cards @ Apple Barrel

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Willie Lockett @ Vaso

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Interstellar Transmission, on the Bus

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Cadillac Eldorado, Bienville St

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

The Pentones @ Funky Blues Pirate Club

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

The Smoky Greenwell Band @ Bamboula’s

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Troy Turner @ Vaso

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Local garage sale

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Parked car

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New Orleans 3

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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 6th to 8th November 2014.

Temporary post. Images only. Preliminary processing.

 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Tombstone wall, Cemetery #1

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

“Voodoo Tomb”, New Orleans Cemetery

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Mardi Gras costume, Gumbo Festival

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Fats Domino’s Piano

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown’s fiddle, after Katrina

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

G String Orchestra

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Bayou

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Bayou

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Unused door

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Local Hearse

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Airplane view, Arizona or California

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 Blues, Landscape, Live Music, Nature, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Queen Mary, Los Angeles

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Narooma Blues Festival 2014

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Narooma Blues Festival 2014 took place over three days and nights on a weekend at the start of October.

Phil Wiggins and Dom Turner

Phil Wiggins and Dom Turner

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Jeff Lang

Jeff Lang

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Johnny Rieger Band with john MacNamara

Johnny Rieger Band with John MacNamara

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Steve Edmonds

Steve Edmonds

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P.J. O'Brien, P.J. O'Brien's Blues Band

P.J. O’Brien, P.J. O’Brien’s Blues Band

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Three Kings

Three Kings

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Rick Estrin & the Nightcats

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats

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Carlos Reyes, Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings with Carlos Reyes

Carlos Reyes, Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings with Carlos Reyes

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Blue Shaddy

Blue Shaddy

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Ash Grunwald

Ash Grunwald

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Vika Bull, Big Bad Blues Babes

Vika Bull, Big Bad Blues Babes

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Kerri Simpson, Big Bad Blues Babes

Kerri Simpson, Big Bad Blues Babes

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Mitch Woods Boogie Woogie Blowout

Mitch Woods, Bridie King, Alison Penney, Mitch Woods Boogie Woogie Blowout

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Russell Morris

Russell Morris

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Kelly Richey Band

Kelly Richey Band

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Black Sorrows

Black Sorrows

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Joe Camilleri, Black Sorrows

Joe Camilleri, Black Sorrows

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The Paladins

The Paladins

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Kevin Borich, Three Wise Men

Kevin Borich, Three Wise Men

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There are many more images. On the Narooma Blues Festival Page . you will find links to images from the 2014 Festival, as well the previous festivals from 2006.  Links for 2014 include top 100 images and one for each of 29 bands.

Alternatively, there is also a direct overall link to all Narooma 2014 images in JAlbum (with overview images and images by band organised by folder).

For other images of a particular band I may have taken since 2006, see the Musicians and Bands Page, which lists links alphabetically by band.


Thredbo Blues Festival 2015

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The last three weeks, while I have been slowly releasing previously prepared posts from Arches National Park, I have been first shooting then processing images from Thredbo Blues Festival 2015. This was the 21st Thredbo Blues Festival. And here are some of the images…

 

Mal Eastick and Milena Barrett

Mal Eastick.

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Tony Boyd, Mal Eastick and Milena Barrett.

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Harry Brus, Harry Brus Band.

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Rory Ellis (right) and Andrew Toner.

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Kate Watts, Blue Ruins.

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Swamphouse.

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Shane Pacey, Shane Pacey Trio.

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Frank Sultana, Frank Sultana & the Sinister Kids.

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Jeff Lang.

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Danny McKenna, with Jeff Lang.

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Kashmere Club.

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Russell Morris (right).

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Charlie A’Court.

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Alyce Schulte, Frank Sultana & the Sinister Kids.

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Ray Beadle, Ray Beadle Band.

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Ray Beadle Band.

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George Washingmachine.

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Phil and Trudy Edgely.

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Andrea Marr, Andrea Marr and the Funky Hitmen.

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Mitch Anderson, Keller Jam.

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Davo Fester, Keller Jam.

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There are many more images. On the Thredbo Blues Festival Page . you will find links to images from Thredbo 2014 including top 100 images as well as links for the Keller Jam, crowds and each of the 22 bands. On that page you will also find links to images from previous Thredbo Festivals from 2006.

Alternatively, there is also a direct overall link to all Thredbo 2015 images . in JAlbum (with overview images and images by band organised by folder).

For other images of a particular band I may have taken since 2006, see the Musicians and Bands Page ., which lists links alphabetically by band.



Jeff Chaz

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Vaso, New Orleans, USA, 5th November 2014.

Blues, Frenchmen Street, Jeff Chaz, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso

Jeff Chaz.

Another great Blues band from New Orleans.  Perhaps sometimes sounding more like Chicago Blues than New Orleans, but hard to pin down and varied.  According to on English critic “Jeff Chaz may well be the missing link between B.B. King, Albert King, Roy Buchanan, and Frank Zappa”.  He also is a Minister with his own black church.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Jeff Chaz, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso

Dean Zucherro.

For more on Jeff Chaz, see his website, and there’s some of his music on ReverbNation.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Jeff Chaz, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso

Jeff Chaz.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Jeff Chaz, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso

Dean Zucherro.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Jeff Chaz, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso

Jeff Chaz, Pierre, Dean Zucherro.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Jeff Chaz, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso

Pierre Menefield.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Jeff Chaz, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso

Jeff Chaz.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Jeff Chaz, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso

Jeff Chaz.

There can be low and difficult lighting in these venues.  This started off as a part of an image that was challenged by bright light where much of the rest of the image was in dark shadows but I liked the feel of it, so I converted to a tonal dropout, as you see.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Jeff Chaz, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso

Jeff Chaz, Pierre Menefield, Dean Zucherro.

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Another Day in Paradise

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Cafe Negril, Frenchmen St, New Orleans, USA, 6th November 2014 (am).

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Another Day in Paradise, Blues, Cafe Negril, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Early in the morning, i.e. after midnight, after seeing Troy Turner, Ed Wills and Jeff Chaz, I dropped into Cafe Negril where Another Day in Paradise was playing.

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Another Day in Paradise, Blues, Cafe Negril, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Band members include Dominick Grillo, Ian Smith, Mike Kobrin, Travis Blotsky, Eugene Harding, Thomas McDonald, Mike Hood, Ed Barrett and Blac Sol.

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Another Day in Paradise, Blues, Cafe Negril, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

They describe their musical range as Blues, Funk, New Orleans R&B, Rhythm and Blues and Jazz.  While I was there it seemed to be New Orleans big brass band jazz, and raging.  Here’s a video by Rodney Dill that he has supplied in the comments.

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Another Day in Paradise, Blues, Cafe Negril, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

The house was packed and the lighting was very low.

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Another Day in Paradise, Blues, Cafe Negril, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

The images appear bright, brighter no doubt than it seemed at the time but hopefully they convey the vibrancy of the occasion.

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Another Day in Paradise, Blues, Cafe Negril, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

I don’t think I will win any photographic prizes with these images because I was pushing the furthest limits of the camera’s capacity.

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Another Day in Paradise, Blues, Cafe Negril, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Consequently, though they will still look OK if you click on them to see them larger, there is not a lot of detail and the tonal range is limited.

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Another Day in Paradise, Blues, Cafe Negril, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

However, just as with the music, the feel is everything.  I hope these images will give you something of the feel of what it was like.

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Dukes of Dixieland

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Natchez Paddle Steamer, New Orleans, USA, 6th November 2014.

Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

The evening we went for a dinner cruise on the historic Natchez paddle steamer.  I will have a daytime picture of it in the river in a later post on Algiers Point.  Here we are sliding away from the dock.

The Natchez is the last authentic steamboat on the Mississippi River.  It was built in 1975 but its steam engines and steering system come from the earlier steamboat Clairton, built in 1925.  It is the ninth steamboat called Natchez; the first one was built in 1823.

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There were other vessels on the river at night; this one a tug.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Mysterious steam from the shore.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

After a buffet dinner, we managed to find a couple of seats quite close to the band, which had not yet stared to play.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

The band is the Dukes of Dixieland, who play swinging, lively New Orleans Jazz.  This is their website and there are some music videos there as well.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Scott Obenschain.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Joe Kennedy.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Kevin Clark.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Ryan Burrage.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

David Mahoney.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

David Mahoney.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Alan Broom.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Scott Obenschain.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Alan Broom.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Scott Obenschain.

(Not an angle you usually get of a trombone player)

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Ryan Burrage.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Kevin Clark.

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Dukes of Dixieland, Jazz, Live Music, Natchez, New Orleans, Paddle Steamer, Photography, Travel, USA

Joe Kennedy.

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Some Further New Orleans Bands

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Frenchmen St and Bourbon St, New Orleans, USA, 6th to 9th November 2014.

Here we have four bands where I only took a few images: Mike Darby and the House of Cards, Sound Table, Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters and Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb. In the case of Sound Table, I caught only the last few minutes of their set. For Big Al Carson, it was extremely crowded and I have only the one shot from a distance. For Mike Derby and Vic Shepherd, it was small crowded venues with such low light as to compromise the quality of some of the images.

(I have previously posted for Mem Shannon, Troy Turner, Ed Wills, Jeff Chaz and the Dukes of Dixieland. Still to come are Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe, Interstellar Transmission, the Pentones, Smoky Grenwell Band and G String Orchestra.)

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Mike Darby and the House of Cards

Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb

This band does not appear to have a web site and I can’t give you the names of the musicians.  They are playing at one of the small venues at the top of the music zone on Frenchmen St.  The closest to a web presence I found is this but it must be many years out of date.  You can hear a couple of their tracks on Spotify.

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb .

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb .

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb .

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb

This is Mike Darby.

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Sound Table

Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb

This is a band I expect I would like to have seen more of but I only caught a track or maybe two at the end of their set at BMC.  I can find no presence for them on the web, perhaps partly indicating that the name is too generic for a useful search.

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb .

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb .

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb .

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters

Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb

Here we see Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters playing at the Funky Pirate Blues Club, where they have a regular gig.  No prize for guessing who is Big Al.  Here is a YouTube video showing them playing there.

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Vic Shepherd with More Reverb

Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb

This is Vic Shepherd with More Reverb, playing in their customary and very crowded late night Sunday spot at the Apple Barrel at the top of the music zone in Frenchman St.  Here is their web site, opening to the page with sound clips.

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb

There is a human being on the right here, cunningly disguised as a space-time anomaly, perhaps a tardis materialising.  More prosaically, with a swirling guitar.  Light levels were low and this is a half-second exposure from very close with a very wide angle lens.

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb .

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb

From left to right:  Tom Shute, Jason Jurzak, Vic Shepherd.

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Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters, Blues, Bourbon St, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, Mike Derby and the House of Cards, New Orleans, Photography, Sound Table, Travel, USA, Vic Shepherd with Extra Reverb .

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Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

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Vaso, Frenchmen St, New Orleans, USA, 6th November 2014.

Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

People on the dance floor powered by Willie Lockett & the Blues Crewe.  Another great blues band at a Frenchmen St venue (in this case, Vaso).  They have previously gone by the name of The All-Purpose Blues Band.  Willie Locket has been around for a long time, having played trumpet with Professor Longhair in the 1960s and the members of his band have similar depth of experience.

Here is the website and here’s a YouTube video of the All Purpose Blues Band doing Hoochie Coochie Man.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe .

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe .

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Willie Lockett.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Willie Lockett.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Willie Lockett.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Don’t know the drummer’s name.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Billy Gregory.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Billy Gregory.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Willie Lockett.

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Willie Lockett.

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Willie Lockett.

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Paul Boudreaux.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

There was a young bloke with a trumpet sitting near the band.  He was given an opportunity to play but was initially too timid to make much noise.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Billy Gregory.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe .

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Paul Boudreaux.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Willie Lockett.

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Blues, Frenchmen Street, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA, Vaso, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe

Willie Lockett.

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Interstellar Transmissions

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The Bus, Frenchmen St, New Orleans, USA, 7th November 2014 (am).

I was heading back along Frenchmen St around 1am after seeing Willie Lockett and the Blues Crewe.  There was a bus parked in a side street with the engine running.  Interesting sounds were coming from it and a young woman invited me in.

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Frenchmen Street, Interstellar Transmissions, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Inside the bus was a whole different musical experience.  This is Interstellar Transmissions.  The inside of the bus provides a different and intimate social setting and the bus with its rounded roof probably has inherently good acoustics as well.

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Frenchmen Street, Interstellar Transmissions, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

At the far end of the bus is the band under stage lighting and with the visual effect enhanced by the reflections on the polished ceiling.

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Frenchmen Street, Interstellar Transmissions, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Gavin Robert McGowen on the left plays guitars, William Jerome “Coda” at the right is on keyboards and Nathan Wilson on drums & percussion.

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Frenchmen Street, Interstellar Transmissions, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

Gavin later told me they used to turn up on the street at Frenchman Street and start playing.  They would pull a big crowd, drawing lots of people out of the venues.  Then the venues would complain and the Police turn up to move them on.  They are based in Austin Texas and already had the bus so in a stroke of brilliance they decided to modify it to double as a venue.

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Frenchmen Street, Interstellar Transmissions, Live Music, New Orleans, Photography, Travel, USA

They are an instrumental group and the closest associations I could think of were Rick Wakeman, Todd Rungren and Yes.  The describe their genre on Facebook as “Carnivalesque Shamanic Tribal Rock Fusion”.   You can listen to some of their music on Reverbnation.

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After a while, I started to concentrate more on the reflections.

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Gavin told me they were to return the next night and I was intending to return with a wider lens.  However, either I missed them or they were diverted somewhere else.

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The Smoky Greenwell Band and the Pentones

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Funky Pirate Blues Club and Bamboula’s, New Orleans, USA, 7th to 8th November 2014.

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In the evening we headed off for the Funky Pirate Club in Bourbon Street where the Pentones were playing.  It was very crowded, so not many angles were available for photographs.

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Thomas McDonald (bass), Eddie Christmas (drums), Mark Pentone (guitar).

The Pentones play smooth and lively blues, rhythm & blues and funk.  You can find out more about them on their website, or even purchase their new CD, or listen to some tracks on ReverbNation.

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This is Mark Pentone.  We only caught the end of the gig but I had a talk to him and he told me he was playing later on Frenchman Street with the Smoky Greenwell Band so we headed off for there.

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On the way, a view on Bourbon Street, left over from Halloween.

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Smoky Greenwell.

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Peter Bradish.

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David Hyde.

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Brief performance by Vaughn Mordenti, whom I took to be a poet, which may well be the case, though is actually the owner of Bamboula’s.

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As you can see from the following images, it was a great night and the crowd were having fun.  The band describes their genre on Facebook as Blues, Rock, Jazz & Funk.  Mark Pentone on the left is standing in for regular guitarist Jack Kolb.

You can checkout their somewhat terse website or play this youtube video (with a larger chorus line than usual) or this one.

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Smoky Greenwell.

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St Louis Cemetery No. 1

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New Orleans, USA, 8th November 2014.

On this afternoon we went for a walk to St Louis Cemetery No 1 and later to Congo Square for a Gumbo Festival.

A noticeboard outside the cemetery describes it as follows:

When New Orleans was founded in 1718 burials were made on the river bank.  The first cemetery, in 1721, was on St Peter Street.  Burials were also made in the church.

The first cemetery was demolished when this cemetery, St Louis Cemetery No 1, was established by Spanish Royal decree of August 14, 1789….

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Some of the oldest tombs lack the original surface and have no distinguishing marks.  I found interesting patterns in the patina on the wall of this one.

A few months after we were there, the cemetery was closed to the general public.  Ostensibly this was to prevent vandalism but more likely to extract money from tour companies who are still allowed to operate.

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The Barbarins were an eminent family of Jazz musicians.  Paul Barbarin was the more famous drummer but judging by the tomb, this person must have had local celebrity as well.

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An old tomb.  Perhaps an old wall plaque had fallen out.

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F. Louis Marrec, born at Morlaise, Department of Finistere, France 27 November 1797, died 14 November 1853.

His spouse Mle Justine Grousol, born in New Orleans 5 April 1809, died 24 December 1876.

Jean P Marrec (their son?), born 26 June 1832; died 4 October 1894.

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A voodoo tomb, I can’t tell you whose.  Perhaps if we had had the patience to take a guided tour but that was always unlikely.

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The triple crosses may originally have come from genuine Voodoo adherents but for the most part these are from Tour Groups pumping up their customers to try to capture a pretence of the mystique.  These days it’s called vandalism (always was, really) and may not be happening any more.

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The gris gris offerings are cute though.

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In memory of Doctor Asahel Brunson
A native of Halifax County North Carolina. Moved with his father to Tennessee in the spring of 1803. Departed this life in the army at New Orleans February 15 1815 aged 26 years 7 months and nine days.

So this means he died in the Battle of New Orleans, where the British failed to capture the city.  When they landed, New Orleans was at their mercy but they paused needlessly for several days, allowing the defenders to bring in cannon and raise defences.  Neither side was aware at the time that a peace treaty had been signed.  The battle became a major factor in Andrew Jackson’s later rise to the Presidency.  Andrew Jackson was the first Democratic President and rated by some as among the worst Presidents.  Bellicose, oppressor of Indians and a slave owner, he would have little in common with Obama.

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This stone is erected by Susannah Slaughter in memory of her late husband Thomas Slaughter, Shipmaster, who was born in the town of Beeding in Sussex, England and was drowned in the Mississippi River, May 21 1811, aged 41 years.
The high roling waves & loud blowing tempest, I have left to the living, for here I am anchor’d in peace, waiting for the return of … tide of life.
On the 22nd of Sept 1817, John Gardner (of Salem Mass.) departed this life aged about 25 years.

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The tomb of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau (c. 1794-1881), or possibly her daughter, or possibly both, or possibly neither.  Doesn’t matter really.  The major voodoo shrine.

Marie Laveau was High Priestess of Voodoo in New Orleans.  This was consistent with the matriarchal nature of the ancestral religion in West Africa.  However, New Orleans Voodoo was a unique synthesis.  Marie was also a devoted Catholic who went to church every day.

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Here is a closer look at some of the voodoo objects at the top of Marie Laveau’s tomb.  Objects and related actions are called gris-gris (grey-grey) because they represent a mixture of black and white magic.

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There are lots of Voodoo references in the cemetery.

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From the cemetery, we went to the nearby Gumbo Festival underway in Louis Armstrong Park.

Inside the park, this is also Congo Square.  From a notice board there:

Congo Square is in the “vicinity” of a spot which Houmas Indians used before the arrival of the French for celebrating their annual corn harvest and was considered sacred ground.  The gathering of enslaved African vendors in Congo Square originated as early as the late 1740s during Louisiana’s French colonial period and continued during the Spanish colonial era as one of the city’s public markets.  By 1803, Congo Square had become famous for the gatherings of enslaved Africans who drummed, danced, sang and traded on Sunday afternoons.  By 1819, these gatherings numbered as many as 500 to 600 people.  Among the most famous dances were the Bamboula, the Calinda and the Congo.  These African cultural expressions gradually developed into Mardi Gras Indian traditions, the Second line and eventually New Orleans jazz and rhythm and blues.

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However, I was somewhat disappointed with the Gumbo Festival.  Too many people, bands too far away, queues at the food vendors innumerable people long.

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And here we have Louis himself, watching over three young women in Carnival masks.

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There was even an Indian, as though Carnival was really happening.

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We then walked down Decatur Street to the bottom of Frenchmen Street.  This is near the Old US Mint, looking back up the street.

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Looking down Frenchman St.

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Marigny, near our accomodation.

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Later in the evening we headed off for Bourbon St.  This is probably on Bourbon St, but at the non-commercial Eastern end.  Next image sequentially is Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters from the Further New Orleans Bands post, then Bourbon Street on Saturday night in the next post.

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Bourbon Street, Saturday Night

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Bourbon St, New Orleans, USA, 8th November 2014.

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On Bourbon Street on Saturday night there was a great mass of people (and definitely no vehicles).

Some were having a good time and others were having a good time wandering up and down watching other people having a good time….

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There were also many people surveying the scene from the balconies.

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I ducked into a bar where there was perhaps a karaoke event, with one person singing to backing music…

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… and lots of other people enjoying themselves.

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Some of the pedestrians were more remarkable than others.

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This is Kitty with Brownie and Bacon Bit, camped together on the pavement.

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There was interaction between the people on the street and the people on the balconies.

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The sign says it all…

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Inside another pub…

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A view of the street from a balcony.

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These people were catching strings of brightly covered beads being thrown down from the balcony.

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Inside a shop stuffed with curious objects.

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Same shop.

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A bridal party on the street.

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And finally, a couple of guardians of the Law, considerately posing with their patient steeds.

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Louisiana Music Museum (New Orleans Mint)

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New Orleans, USA, 9th November 2014.

This afternoon we visited the old US Mint, not far from we were staying.  It operated as a mint from 1838 to 1861 and from 1879 to 1909, producing over 400 million gold and silver coins during those periods.  This includes a brief period striking coins for the Confederacy in 1861.  There are only four Confederate dollars from the New Orleans Mint surviving.

However, what I found more interesting was the Music Museum upstairs.

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Fats Domino’s piano.

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Fats Domino (born 1928) is a very influential Rhythm and Blues piano player, eminent since the late 1940s.   He stayed in his house during Hurricane Katrina, partly because his wife was in poor health.  His house was then destroyed by the floods.  He was reported as dead in the media but had in fact been airlifted to safety with his family by a helicopter.

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Louis Armstrong’s first cornet.

In the early hours of 1 January 1913, young Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was arrested for firing a pistol in the air during New Year’s celebrations and sentenced to the Coloured Waif’s Home. There band director Peter Davis began Louis’ formal musical education. Louis started with a tambourine and eventually graduated to the cornet. The home’s administrator, Captain Joseph Jones, purchased this cornet at a pawnshop for Armstrong’s use. As his fame grew, the Waif’s Home cherished the cornet Armstrong had played. In 1962, Jones’ widow, Manuella Jones, donated this horn to the New Orleans Jazz Club’s Jazz Museum. Three years later, Armstrong identified the cornet by the grooves he had cut into the mouthpiece.

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Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown’s fiddle.

The storm surge from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 destroyed the home of Clarence Gatemouth Brown (1924-2005) in Slidell, Louisiana. His fiddle, still in a case, was found nearby. Brown had evacuated in advance of the storm but passed away in Orange, Texas just a couple of weeks later.

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Clarence Gatemouth Brown.  Digital inkjet print by Earl Perry, c. 2004.

“I refuse to be labelled as a blues player, jazz player, country player,” Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown once said.  “I’m an American musician.”   Born in Vinton, Louisiana and raised in Orange, Texas, he absorbed the music of the Gulf Coast as well as the swing of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, creating an eclectic style.  His first hit “Okie Dokie Swamp” (1954), blended jazz and blues.  In 1982 he won a grammy for his album Alright Again!.  Over his long career, the prolific guitarist and fiddler recorded with Eric Clapton, Canned Heat, Leon Russell and Professor Longhair.  Weakened by lung cancer and heart failure, Brown passed away in Orange about two weeks after he evacuated his longtime Slidell home in advance of Hurricane Katrina.

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Photograph of Kid Ory (gelatin silver print by Yoshio Toyama 1971) and Kid Ory’s trombone.

Originally from LaPlace, trombonist Edward “Kid” Ory (1886-1973) led one of New Orlean’s most popular dance bands in the 1910s.  He left for California in 1919, then headed for Chicago in 1923 to play with Joe “King” Oliver.  During the next several years, he recorded there with Oliver, Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, and Jelly Roll Morton’s Hot Peppers.  At the end of the 1920s, Ory moved back to California and quit performing until the 1940s, when the revival of interest in New Orleans-style jazz put him back on stage and in the studio.

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Sydney Bechet’s soprano saxophone (manufactured 1897).

One of the first great jazz soloists, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) was renowned for his emotional, powerful style.   He began playing professionally as an adolescent, and by 1919 he was touring Europe.  Bechet pioneered the technique of overdubbing in 1941, playing all the parts – soprano saxophone, clarinet, tenor saxophone, piano, drums, and bass – on “The Sheik of Araby”.  Bechet settled in France in the early 1950s.  There, he became a national hero, recording such hits as “Les Oignons” and “Petite Fleur”.

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Cie Frazier’s tom-tom and drumsticks.

The tom-tom and drumsticks displayed here were part of a drum set that Josiah “Cie” Frazier (1904-1985) used when he travelled.  The set suffered extensive damage from Hurrican Katrina floodwaters.

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Cie Frazier, Gelatin silver print by Lee Friedlander, 1982.

Many consider Josiah “Cie” Frazier’s playing the epitome of New orleans-style jazz druming.  In his early years, he performed in orchestras led by Armand J Piton, Sidney Desvigne, Oscar “Papa” Celestin and John Robichaux.  Frazier played with a number of brass bands and performed regularly at Preservation Hall from its earliest days.

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Emile “Stalebread” Lacoume’s banjo (manufactured c.1900).

Emile “Stalebread Lacoume (1885-1946) played this banjo.  After leading a spasm band as a boy and performing in vaudeville shows, he played jazz in New Orleans through the 1920s and 1930s.

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Emile “Stalebread” Lacoume’s Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band, Albumen print, 1899.

In the late 1800s, newspaper boy Emile Lacoume (second from left), performed on the streets of New Orleans.  Homemade instruments and improvised music were the hallmarks of such groups.  Stalebread, who once said he got his nickname from bread he hoarded from his band, went on to play jazz professionally as an adult, despite the onset of blindness shortly after this photograph was taken.  He performed with the halfway house Orchestra in the early 1920s and later with the Charles Fishbien Orchestra.

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G String Orchestra

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Mimi’s in the Marigny, Franklin Ave, New Orleans, USA, 10th November 2014.

We turned up at Mimi’s on the Marigny because as a cajun and creole local tapas restaurant it sounded worth checking out.  Not knowing how crowded it might be we turned up early and out timing worked out to be perfect.  We didn’t even know a band was playing and we got the table right in front.  The food was great and the band was great.

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This is G String Orchestra, especially the three players to the right, the bass accordion and violin.  It can range from a two-piece to a ten-piece band, playing traditional and original eastern European folk and klezmer music or more specifically, pan-Balkan music ranging from romantic waltzes to driving coceks, pulsing horas to foot moving bulgars, heart wrenching greek rembetica ballads to the hungarian czardas!.

This is their website and here are six tracks on their MySpace site.

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Ian, Sarah Jacques in the background.

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Ian.

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Sarah Jacques.

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David.

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Sarah Jacques.

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Sarah Jacques.

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David.

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(I will add more names when they are available).

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