American Routes Live with Summer Sounds from French Quarter Fest
This week, we celebrate the cultural minglings in New Orleans with a visit to the 2019 French Quarter Festival: a free, homegrown, four-day annual event featuring a vast array of local music presented on stages throughout the city’s oldest neighborhood. We’ll hear from Soul Queen Irma Thomas, the late piano patriarch Ellis Marsalis, and the Preservation Hall Brass Band. We’ll also catch the French-Creole jazz of Don Vappie and Evan Christopher, Cajun dance music from Bruce Daigrepont, vaudeville and gospel from Topsy Chapman and Solid Harmony, Klezmerfunk fusion from the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars and traditional jazz from Dejan’s Olympia Brass Band. The Festival plans its return for April 2021.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Hot Sausage Rag Preservation Hall Brass Band
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
I'm Walking Preservation Hall Brass Band
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Preservation Hall Brass Band
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Instrumental: Instrumental Ellis Marsalis Sextet
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
On Broadway Ellis Marsalis Sextet
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Creole Blues Evan Christopher's Clarinet Road w/Don Vappie
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Salée Dame Evan Christopher's Clarinet Road w/Don Vappie
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Instrumental: Slow Daddy Joe Krown Organ Combo
Livin' Large, Joe Krown
(You Can Have My Husband But Please) Don't Mess With My Man Irma Thomas
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Ruler of My Heart Irma Thomas
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
I Done Got Over Irma Thomas
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Closing Bed: Palm Court Strut Leroy Jones
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Second Line to Saints Medley Dejan's Olympia Brass Band
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Lord, Lord, Lord Dejan's Olympia Brass Band
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Instrumental: The Bar Mitzvah of Raymond Scott New Orleans Klezmer All Stars
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
In the Bath, All are Equal New Orleans Klezmer All Stars
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Funky Yiddish Music Singalong New Orleans Klezmer All Stars
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Ma Negress Bruce Daigrepont
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Bienvenue Sud de la Louisiane Bruce Daigrepont
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Mamou Two-Step Bruce Daigrepont
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Instrumental: Jeepers Creepers Leroy Jones
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Darktown Strutters Ball Topsy Chapman
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Straighten Up and Fly Right Topsy Chapman
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
I'll Fly Away Topsy Chapman
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
Closing Bed: Just a Closer Walk with Thee Dejan's Olympia Brass Band
American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,