Gretna Heritage Festival 2009- Sunday

The weather on Sunday was not so good.
Still, the Gretna Heritage Fest is rain-or-shine...


Some of the food offerings were different on Sunday:


But all of the music was different. This group was reggae... playing in high winds and rain:

This guy got the covered market to play in. Good New Orleans music!

These guys had a huge area to play to. We actually messed up, and thought they were a substitute and that we were at the "Main Stage"... where the Guess Who were playing. But this was the "Riverfront Stage". There were no obvious signs to the "Main Stage" which looked identical but which was behind the Ferry Landing. Oh well, no Guess Who for me.

The Chee Weez were good though! Covers, but done very energetically by a solid lead singer.

And then there was a parade!

I think the sousaphone was too loud.


And the reason we came: Better Than Ezra, a New Orleans hometown band.

"All across America, people cheer when we say we are from New Orleans!"

Ok, now my ears are really ringing! Home again...

Gretna Heritage Festival 2009- Friday

A Health Food Moment...

Come along on my adventures at the Gretna Heritage Festival, across the Mississippi from New Orleans... This was Friday.

Lots of choices available:

Folks brought chairs and had a party...

Booths were manned by local charities and local eateries...

These were tempting.

I ended up eating a crawfish pistolet... not bad!


Of course the reason for the Festival was music. My friend Robert and I did see several acts, including:

Anders Osborne:



And Home-town favorite Cowboy Mouth:

I had seen Cowboy Mouth in San Francisco this past spring. In SF they did a song "take me back to New Orleans" which was really wonderful. They didn't do it during the concert, and I hoped they would do it for the encore. Instead they did a fantastic job on "Won't Get Fooled Again" which was an interesting comment on the ever-present topic.

And then, ears ringing, we drove back across the toll bridge to New Orleans.