New Orleans Music Madness, Part I - Episode 113
Beyond Bourbon Street, an Insider's Guide to New Orleans
Mark Bologna
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is the first of three in a row about New Orleans music.
The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) recently did an online tournament where they matched New Orleans music against each other in an NCAA March Madness style bracket they called Music Madness.
People were invited to vote and they published the results online, while also linking to the launch of an online exhibit, called New Orleans Medley: Sounds of the City.
Eli Haddow and Teresa Devlin over at THNOC suggested it might be fun if I filled out my own bracket and talked about my selections. I've taken the challenge and will guide you through the first 16 of 32 first round selections on today's show. We'll cover jazz greats like Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong and more.
Resources
THNOC's Music Madness playlist is available on You Tube here orto see the bracket, visit the THNOC webpage.
Use this link to skip the brackets and go straight to their online exhibit, New Orleans Medley: Sounds of the City!
You can see my selections here.
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Thanks to Eli Haddow and Teresa Devlin at THNOC for working with me to develop the idea for this episode. Thanks to Eric Seiferth for curating the Music Madness bracket.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listed to Beyond Bourbon Street, an insider's guide to New Orleans. |
| 0:03.0 | Beyond Bourbon Street, is insider's guide to New Orleans. Beyond Bourbon Street is the podcast where we explore the food, |
| 0:16.3 | music, culture, places, and people that make New Orleans unique. Whether you are planning a trip, |
| 0:22.1 | living in New Orleans, or simply wanting a taste of the Crescent City from wherever you are, |
| 0:26.0 | you've come to the right place. |
| 0:29.0 | And now, your host, Mark Bologna. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi, this is Mark. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to episode 113. |
| 0:40.0 | Today's episode is going to be the first in a sub-series. |
| 0:43.1 | I've been thinking about how to help you enjoy New Orleans from afar |
| 0:46.2 | here in May 2020 as we're all stuck inside with COVID-19. |
| 0:50.5 | And either if you're not here and you want to visit, |
| 0:52.3 | or maybe you are here and you just can't get out. |
| 0:54.0 | I've been trying to think about how do I help us all enjoy the city a little bit more when we can't experience it firsthand. |
| 1:00.0 | And then at the same time, the Historic New Orleans Collection, the THNOC, recently did an online tournament where they matched New Orleans songs against each other in kind of an NCAA March Madness style bracket that they called music madness. |
| 1:14.8 | People were invited to vote and they published the results online while also linking to |
| 1:18.8 | the launch of an online exhibit called New Orleans Medley Sounds of the City. |
| 1:23.0 | My friends over there, Eli Haddo and Theresa Devlin, |
| 1:26.0 | suggested it might be fun if I filled out my own bracket |
| 1:29.0 | and talked about my selections on a podcast. |
| 1:31.0 | So that's what I'm going to do or at least start to do today. |
| 1:35.0 | Before we jump in, I want to mention the last episode. It was a discussion about the history |
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