When you go to New Orleans
Well if it is in the next few weeks you are guaranteed to be exhausted. Here’s the game plan:
Today starts Jazz Fest – get your ticket in your hand. Brass Pass if you can still get one, which I heard you can, $350 not only gets you into 7 days of the best music in the world but also is a big donation to the best radio station in the world – WWOZ – and wait, the food, forgetaboutit, but wait there’s more, there’s art and jewelry and let me tell you, you won’t want for anything.
Then Friday night, tonight, there is Helen Gillet and James Singleton at Zeitgeist and tomorrow night, Saturday night, at Bacchanal around 9PM Chuck Perkins.
But wait then there is all next week Jazz Fest – my 50th birthday where Jon Bon Jovi will be singing to me (forget about the other 90,000 people there, like my then 6-year-old niece told her mother, let me have my fantasy), and then we are closing the fest with Alan Toussaint, Neil Young and the Neville Brothers – excuse me, would you be anywhere else?
Then there’s my clothing optional pool party.
And while I’m away for business, there is yet more fun to be had – a friend writes that on May 13th at the Blue Nile: “my dj friend from Ibiza comin in and spinnin that night starting round 8 or 9 i guess..still puttin together flyers and promo stuff but please come out? Tell anyone you think would like housey, soulful, jazzy, island music to come too.
Take your vitamins, drink plenty of water, put your sun screen on and come on down – the party has started.