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Second Anniversary To What? |
| Section: THE ARTS / FESTIVALS |
| Author: Matthew Brodsky |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 2,592 Words, 15,332 Characters |
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Maybe it happened because I was sweating faster than I could drink water. Maybe I splashed too much hot sauce on my crawfish rice, and my jambalaya after that. Maybe being up until four in the morning the night before, jamming out to live bands on Bourbon Street and eating Lucky Dogs, was to blame. But I'd like to think it was because I bonded with my fellow human beings on the Jazz Festival Fairgrounds while listening to the Original Pin Stripe Brass Band, at 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon, May 5, 2007.
I have never witnessed a tuba player as quick as the football-nosetackle-sized man on stage, dressed in black slacks, a spotless white three-button polo shirt, and a milkman's hat. Then the trumpet man, with his hat sitting up top his poof of hair, launched into something I could never dream...
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...ions about whether or not New Orleans should be rebuilt at all.
But families returning to event for generations, their toddlers playing in puddles, packs of college and high students taking it in for the first time, the sun, the food, the community, the humanity. Jazz Fest will keep marching them in, and New Orleans will be there to greet them, despite that awful Katrina. There, I said it.
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