By CHUCK OBUCHOWSKI Special To The Courant
August 3, 2009
"Saturday's Litchfield Jazz Festival main stage events drew to a close with a highly contagious celebration of the music's New Orleans roots, affectionately spread to the delirious crowd by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Audience members jammed onstage to dance and clap along with the euphoric polyphony of "When the Saints Go Marching In."
The unabashedly nostalgic set featured one Crescent City classic after another, from "Basin Street Blues" to "Tiger Rag." The latter, taken at breakneck tempo, proved that these fun-loving players possess deadly serious instrumental chops. Preservation Hall's multigenerational septet is a class act, well-rehearsed and well-dressed. On this hot, muggy day, they were the only musicians who wore suits and ties. But that didn't stop them from parading through the concert venue in rocking, second-line style..."
August 3, 2009
"Saturday's Litchfield Jazz Festival main stage events drew to a close with a highly contagious celebration of the music's New Orleans roots, affectionately spread to the delirious crowd by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Audience members jammed onstage to dance and clap along with the euphoric polyphony of "When the Saints Go Marching In."
The unabashedly nostalgic set featured one Crescent City classic after another, from "Basin Street Blues" to "Tiger Rag." The latter, taken at breakneck tempo, proved that these fun-loving players possess deadly serious instrumental chops. Preservation Hall's multigenerational septet is a class act, well-rehearsed and well-dressed. On this hot, muggy day, they were the only musicians who wore suits and ties. But that didn't stop them from parading through the concert venue in rocking, second-line style..."
1 comment:
Very nice festival. I am planning to go next year. New Orleans city is restoring several years of history and carries old tradition of Mardi Gras. The New Orleans city celebrate festivals every year, adding several new features like wide scale parades and balls backed by associations that attract hoards of crowds from across the globe. Mardi Gras is celebrated forty-seven days prior to Easter Sunday. In Zulu Parade where king and queen arrive on a river boat on the Mississippi river.
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