Field Report: 2023 9 Times Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

2023 9 Times Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

2023 9 Times Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

2023 9 Times Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

2023 9 Times Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

2023 9 Times Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

2023 9 Times Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

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Field Report: 2023 Original Terlingua International Championship Chili Cookoff

2023 Original Terlingua International Championship Chili Cookoff

For the past six decades a few thousand chile pepper loving oddballs, freaks, and weirdos have descended upon Terlingua, Texas in the Chihuahuan Desert in early November to pay tribute to Wick Fowler and Frank X. Tolbert at the Original Terlingua International Championship Chili Cookoff. Continue reading

Field Report: Russell Batiste Funerary Second Line in New Orleans

Russell Batiste Funerary Second Line in New Orleans

Russell Batiste is dead at 57. The legendary Batiste family has lost a favorite son and New Orleans has lost another top flight musician whose career spanned decades. Today in the Uptown neighborhood the musical community gathered for Mr. Batiste’s home-going. This is what we saw:
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Field Report: 2023 Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

2023 Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

The story of the 2023 Prince of Wales second line is the performance by Stooges Brass Band. I’ve seen this group hundreds of times over the decades but I’ve never seen them reach this level. Singing through megaphones and dancing like a bunch of young Buddy Ebsens is something I never saw coming. One for the ages. Continue reading

Field Report: 2023 Family Ties Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

2023 Family Ties Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line

Finally, five weeks into the fresh second line season the gods smiled upon downtown New Orleans and blessed us with a roll that did not start on the wrong side of Pontchartrain Expressway. Family Ties Social Aid and Pleasure Club rolled through the 6th and 7th Wards earlier today. This is what we saw:
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