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| Cliff | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> New Orleans and Jazz Festival 2012 | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 New Orleans - "The Big Easy" |
 Our hotel "The O'Keefe" |
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 Such nice people everywhere |
 Great Louisiana food ! |
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 Cool sign |
 New Orleans famous "French Market" |
 French Quarter |
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 Jackson Square |
 Tourists all over .. |
 Impromptu street music ! |
 Impromptu street music ! |
 Missed his trumpet - except in the shadow ! |
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 Group playing on Bourbon Street - awesome sound |
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 Mardi Gras beads all over ! |
 Yes...Forrest Gump at the "Bubba Gump" |
 Walking back to our hotel after dinner |
 Arrival at the Jazz Festival - world's best music bargain ! |
 Gospel Tent |
 Gospel tent |
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 Blues Tent |
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 Terrific food all over ! |
 Friendly food vendor |
 More Blues Tent |
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 Ernie Vincent and the Top Notes |
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 Performed the title track from the movie "The Big Easy" |
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 Cajun groupie I think.. |
 Michael Doucet |
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 Mike Love |
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 Disoriented fan.. |
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 Brian Wilson himself |
 Mike Love |
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 End of day one of three for us |
 Parade of some kind |
 "Yo Momas" - specialty is peanut butter burger - awesome !! |
 The famous/infamous Bourbon Street |
 Bourbon Street Neon - my "collage" |
 The Po-lice - mounted NOPD ! |
 It was her wedding and she danced down Bourbon Street |
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 Gospel Music Tent - loved this place ! |
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 One of the converts for sure :) |
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 Little audience member |
 New Orleans Indian - Google them - quite a history |
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 Festival goers |
 Festival "foodie" |
 Scrumptious ! |
 Cute ! |
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 We were blown away by "Amanda Shaw and the Cute Guys" ! (met her later at the "Rock and Bowl" - see below |
 Wow ! |
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 Whoo Hoo ! |
 More mellow :) |
 Oyster shucker (really) |
 And the yummy oysters ! |
 As close as we could get to "Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers" playing on the Acura Stage |
 Great music though - even from way back ! |
 Cute - I thought |
 Still Katrina devastation |
 The next "Louis Armstrong" they say ! |
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 Awesome saxaphonist |
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 With his little sister, I believe |
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 Back to Cliff's fav "The Gospel Tent" |
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 Fan |
 Jazz Tent |
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 "Biit" of a crowd for Trombone Shorty |
 Elegantly attired Festival Goer |
 As close as we could get to the famous "Trombone Shorty" - again - great music ! |
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 We don't even look weary ! |
 "Fais Do Do Stage" - mainly Cajun music |
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 Ethel enjoyed the music too ;o) |
 I AM happy ! |
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 Cannot recall his name - but I think quite well known |
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 Say NO more ! |
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 Cute audience member ! |
 Could NOT get any closer to Springsteen on the Acura stage than this. |
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 Such a rising star - Google "Janelle Monae" |
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 Home of Fats Domino in New Orleans (bus tour) |
 Note 'Katrina disaster' lettering on house |
 Katrina distruction |
 The guy who wrote "Mother in Law" in the 60s has this house..and pilgrimage evidently |
 Fats Domino on piller - as pointed out by our bus diver |
 New Orleans cemetary - because of flooding VERY unusual way of burying their deceased |
 Ah...spring ! |
 The Superdome |
 Lunch break |
 Posie shot from City Park |
 Streetcar rider |
 Inside |
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 Algiers Ferry terminal |
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 Leaving for Algiers Point |
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 Little ferry passenger |
 Neighborhood 'crawfish boil' we happened upon in Algiers Point |
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 See Ethel back there ? !! |
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 Another posie pic |
 Cute Pooch #1 |
 Posie |
 Homes in Algiers area |
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 Interesting fern |
 People put interesting stuff in their front yards |
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 Cute Pooch pic #2 |
 Cute cat pic |
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 Louis Armstrong statue in Algeries |
 I ate a yummy oyster Po-Boy sandwich here and Ethel bought the tastiest pralines she'd eaten in her life ! |
 New Orleans skyline by night |
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 Cathedral with statue and shadow |
 Night shot of Bourbon Street |
 VERY big billboard |
 Showing off her new baby at Mothers Restaurant |
 People are so friendly |
 LOVE those streetcars ! |
 The Canal Street Line |
 City Park waterlilies |
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 Mr. Lizard |
 City Park ! |
 Damn tourists |
 Not sure...but it looked interesting |
 Awwwwhh ! |
 Who's tired of posie pictures ? |
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 Pretty lily pad |
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 More City Park |
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 beautiful spot |
 Amazing place where they actually bowl but have a great music stage |
 Headliner at the 'Rock and Bowl' - or just some crazy wanna-be ! |
 Me and Amanda Shaw - from the Jazz Fest (see above) |
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 Flooding at our hotel as someone tried to use the sprinkler head in the room as his clothes rack ! |
 On our tour of the "Treme area" Wonderful 2 hour walking tour |
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 Statue of New Orleans "Indian" |
 Our tour guide |
 Mahalia Jackson statue in the rain from the back |
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 Tour guide |
 Davis McAlary home used in "Treme" HBO TV series |
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 New Orleans has the highest homicide rate in the US |
 Continuing... |
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 Dizzy's |
 Cute pooch pic #5 |
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 Cute pooch pic #6 |
 Friend John's sumptuous hotel (he was mistakenly booked into) in Treme area |
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 Back to hotel after tour to find our stuff all packed out of our room and put here. |
 The O'Keefe treated us well though because after only 1/2 hour they put us up at the next door Holiday Inn in this lovely suite |
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 "Port of Call"" - definitely the best burger I have ever eaten ! |
 The famous "Snug Harbor" nightclub in N.O. |
 Street musicians - interestingly using a didgeridoo |
 Tour of interesting nightspot |
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 Love streetcars at night |
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 And day |
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 Thank you ! |
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| Paul Dovie Jr | 10-May-2012 19:17 | |