A very touching article about the return of Jazz funerals in New Orleans

[thresher]

I have only seen one, and it was amazing. A cultural even to be sure...
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/music/orl-mccane1005oct10,0,621125.story?coll=orl-calmusictop
......The brass band, reunited from across the country, toted donated instruments. The procession leaders wore salvaged bits of their traditional funeral finery.....


The will to continue is simply amazing. God bless these folks.

[nickel]

I have only seen one, and it was amazing. A cultural even to be sure...
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/music/orl-mccane1005oct10,0,621125.story?coll=orl-calmusictop
......The brass band, reunited from across the country, toted donated instruments. The procession leaders wore salvaged bits of their traditional funeral finery.....


The will to continue is simply amazing. God bless these folks.
great article thresher, thanks for posting it.


The band manager, Lee Arnold, was handing out fliers for his "Save our brass!" campaign to help musicians get back on their feet. In the next week, he said, the band would travel to shelters to play for evacuees.

But for now, they were home, doing what they do best.