French Quarter Festival * a nice preview of coming attractions
Saturday after a gloomy start the weather cleared and I went to FQF to see Kermit Ruffin get married to Juicey on stage. He was followed by Big Sam Nation and I caught up with Ham and Teresa as Ham was running for paramedics on account of a woman had passed out behind him. I ran with him and the paramedics back to where his friends were and the woman had disappeared – it was almost like Keyestone Cops – and then Papa Grows Funk came on. I had been wanting to hear this band since a friend loves them so much, but I found the music a tad boring so we all made our way over to Rebirth and then I took leave and headed back to MidCity where I picked up TL, called G and we all went to La Vita. Evan is in town and came to join us. Always good to see him. I just sent G the photo of Y on one side and E on the other and she wrote back and said “looks painful” – but it wasn’t.