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I ditched spin class at the last minute and Tin and I rode the bike to the French Quarter to see the Panorama Jazz Band, which is a klezmer band. I brought Tin’s trumpet and he loved getting down to the Trombone Hora. Gotta love it. A Jewish man was so enamored with Tin he kept taking his photo and wanted to pick Tin up and get in the photo with him – I warned him that picking him up would provoke a toddler tantrum but he didn’t heed my word. Finally, he asked if he could give Tin a dollar and I said sure. And after some thought, he decided on a quarter – gotta love the genes. Tin loved the quarter and stuck it in his pocket. The man said to keep it because one day he would look back and say that was the first time Tin got paid for making music. Meanwhile, a photographer for the Times Picayune had been trying to get Tin to stand still with his trumpet to get a good shot.
Later we rode our bike to a friend’s house for her daughter’s birthday party, we walked in and there were balloons everywhere and Tin just jumped right in. She said her mother in Argentina had been looking at photos of Tin on Facebook and told her the story about Louis Armstrong and how a Jewish couple had taken him in and bought his first cornet. The Karnofsky Project came about from that relationship and now raises money to provide underprivileged children with a musical instrument.