Festival Circuit New Orleans E4: From The President To Frenchmen Street (Re-Release)

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Matt Dwyer

Music History, Music

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Welcome back to Festival Circuit: New Orleans. In this episode, we’re going to explore the late night music scene around jazz fest. We hear from George Porter, Papa Mali and Robert Walter about the magic of one-time late night collaborations, and we talk with Irma Thomas about performing with Allen Toussaint on the President. We also explore the growth of Frenchmen Street as a destination, the legacy of Tipitina’s, and amazing late night shows over the past 50 years. 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. Thanks to our partners at WWOZ. 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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0:29.6	They were doing these after-hours concerts on the riverboat back then, the riverboat president.
0:36.0	Great part of New Orleans of Jazz House house history for sure and so this particular night
0:40.8	Rita Marley the Neville brothers and a band called Exuma which was a great kind of
0:48.8	like a Bahamian junkinoo band they were it was a triple bill on the riverboat president. Me and my
0:57.0	my buddy Bruce from Ruston, Louisiana, we came down here and strangely enough, this is a, you know,
1:04.8	I've never said this ever in my life before then and hadn't had to have said it since then,
1:09.6	but standing on the deck of the ship
1:11.2	that night, I looked at my friend and said, I just have this weird feeling that I'm going to fall in
1:16.3	love tonight, that I'm going to meet the woman of my dreams.
1:19.1	And he was like, yeah, right, sure, whatever, you know.
1:21.9	But it's true.
1:23.0	We met standing in line, you know, like to get a beer or something, and we've been together ever since.
1:31.3	Welcome back to Festival Circuit New Orleans. I'm Rob Steinberg. This is episode four.
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