Festival Circuit New Orleans 3: At the Fairgrounds (Re-Release)

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Matt Dwyer

Music History, Music

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Welcome back to Festival Circuit: New Orleans. In episode 3, we’re going to jazz fest! We’ll look at how the festival started, hear from interviewees about standout performances, talk about the evolution of the festival itself, and of course, talk a bit about jazz fest food. We spend some time in the Gospel Tent, dance with Mardi Gras Indians, and look at the explosive growth of the festival over the past 20 years. And of course, there’s plenty of music. This would have been the 51st jazz fest, and we all wish we could have been there. But this tribute to the festival and to New Orleans music helps us all feel a little more connected to live music and to this event that is truly one of a kind. If you like the show, please subscribe and share, and leave a review. Thank you. Festival Circuit is presented by Osiris Media. This series is Narrated and Produced by Rob Steinberg. Executive Producers are Christina Collins, Andrew Goodwin and RJ Bee, who also double duties as series writer and creator. Produced, Edited and Mixed by Matt Dwyer. Show logo by Liz Bee. The theme song is “JazzFest Time,” by Circus Mind. To check out more shows that help deepen the connection to music you love, please visit OsirisPod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Connie, there I was, on the planet far, far away.
0:03.5	Really, Trevor?
0:04.3	Ground was so soft, so squishy.
0:06.4	Must have been zero gravity.
0:07.6	Maybe you were just on a memory foam mattress.
0:10.2	Add Argos, make your home epic with our out-of-this-world silent night beds and mattresses.
0:15.3	There's more to Argos.
0:17.5	Argos.com.uk and installs subject to availability.
0:28.6	It was amazing. That was the first jazz fest after Katrina.
0:31.6	Springsteen was headlining.
0:34.6	I was not going to miss that. So I went down and, and it was pretty
0:43.1	magical. Honestly, the sound check in the morning, which I went to, was in the rain and mud. It was
0:53.9	raining. It was muddy.
0:56.8	The edge came out from U2,
0:58.8	who was sitting on the side of the stage.
1:00.9	And we were all standing there,
1:03.2	watching them run through some songs.
1:05.6	I saw, you know, Alan Tussain came over
1:08.2	and to say hello to Bruce, and it was a great moment to see them, you know, Alan Toussaint came over and to say hello to Bruce.
1:11.6	And it was a great moment to see them, you know,
1:14.6	and Bruce, the glow on his face just to be talking
1:17.6	with Alan Toussaint was amazing.
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