The Times profiled the marching band scene in New Orleans on Mardis Gras. It's a place, as the story says, where being in a marching band is hip and competitive, where, as on the streets and in the clubs, horns and drums rule. I've had the city on my mind. We're editing a video bio of Amanda Shaw, a 16-year old fiddler, singer and songwriter from just outside NOLA. We shot her in December over a few days in a recording studio in the Bywater/Upper Ninth Ward area and driving around a busted up but proud city. Much of the news there remains bad. The nation's attention seems elsewhere. Federal help seems, from my distant perspective, minimal. Anybody going to JazzFest?
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Oh yeah, the marching bands were smokin' at Mardi Gras! A lot still don't have uniforms, but nothing beats standing on Napoleon Avenue seeing the dance teams and marching bands pound down the street. Maybe it was the booze and beads, but every family loves it!!
Posted by: John Ross | February 26, 2007 at 10:08 AM