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May 2011

Buoyed on the Bayou

05/18/11

Buoyed on the Bayou

There seems to be something magnetic for New Orleanians in the local festival. Of course, it has to be a quality affair, with lots of music, food and art. Fortunately, our city is robustly provisioned with all three. Once these are deployed in the right setting, people tend to flock. For evidence, see the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo coming up this weekend.

The Boogaloo had unlikely and less-than-auspicious beginnings. It first came together along the banks of Bayou St. John in the spring of 2006 when the surrounding Mid-City area was still crawling back to life from Katrina and the levee failures. Jazz Fest had just marked its joyous post-Katrina return a few weeks earlier, but it was anyone’s guess how things would go for...

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Chaz Fest's Recipe for a Homemade Happening

05/04/11

Chaz Fest's Recipe for a Homemade Happening

It used to be that the weekdays between Jazz Fest weekends were the downtime – get back on track with work, salve that sunburn, fumigate the guestroom, recuperate those eardrums. But that was back when it was still possible to understand Jazz Fest as essentially just a big festival. Now it’s a mini-season unto itself, and the days between the weekends have taken on a life all their own. The prime example is Chaz Fest, which is happening today in the Bywater from noon to 10 p.m. 

Chaz Fest is a homemade music festival, and it had its first inspiration in the best possible response to being excluded. A bunch of accomplished local musicians who found themselves without invitations to play Jazz Fest in 2006...

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About This Blog

Ian McNultyA transplant from his native Rhode Island, Ian McNulty quickly discovered how easy it is to strike up conversations with New Orleans people simply by asking about their favorite clubs and neighborhood joints.

He asked often, listened carefully and has been exploring the nightlife of the Crescent City ever since.

McNulty was the editor and principal contributor to Hungry? Thirsty? New Orleans, a guidebook to nightspots and inexpensive restaurants around town. He is also author of Season of Night, a memoir about life in a devastated part of New Orleans during the first few months after Hurricane Katrina.

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