Dawn arrived on Fat Tuesday 2011 with a gray, windy bluster and a forecast of heavy rain. But nature could not throw a wet blanket on the smoldering fire of revelers gathering along St. Charles Avenue waiting for the parades to roll. Outside of Commander’s Palace, Pete Fountain readied himself to lead those parades downtown, [...]
Tag Archives: Pete Fountain
Getting Rid of the “Noise”?
July 1, 2010 – 12:02 am
Last week, the New Orleans Police Department announced that they would enforce an ordinance on the books that prevents live music from being played on Bourbon Street from 8 p.m. until 9 a.m. They served notices to the To Be Continued Brass Band, who plays on the corner of Canal and Bourbon. While the NOPD [...]
Pete Fountain and Tim Laughlin: The Fat Sound
May 1, 2010 – 12:19 am
Once away from the strip malls and family businesses that alternate on Highway 90, the road to the Hollywood Casino in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi winds through the swampy woods until it rises at the back of a parking lot. For a casino, it is a modest one with a hotel on one side and [...]
YouTube du Jour: French Quarter Festival 2009
February 23, 2010 – 12:28 pm
Here’s the French Quarter Festival’s official look back at last year’s event, starting with the kickoff second line. Keep your eye out for a glimpse of Consulting Editor John Swenson.
November 2009 Letters
November 1, 2009 – 12:10 am
WETLANDS Excellent article on Tab Benoit and the Voice of the Wetlands, in fact, the best I’ve seen—thanks for “getting” it, and helping to tell a story that needs to be spread and re-told. I was fortunate to be at the recording session [John Swenson] so ably described. It was an awesome experience watching that [...]
Tim Laughlin, A Royal St. Serenade (Gentilly)
August 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
A common criticism of reviewers is that they’re too caught up in the pursuit of the new, cool thing to get beauty anymore. The thing that’s hard to tell the artist that made the beautiful piece he or she made is it’s often beautiful like a soap opera star is beautiful—in a conventional, familiar, unspectacular [...]
Pete Fountain: Home Boy
February 1, 1991 – 12:01 am
Pete Fountain is, to many, the quintessential New Orleans jazz musician. He personifies the funky, spunky spirit of the city and struts it best during his “Half-Fast” stroll on Carnival day. Pete’s been on the Tonight Show over fifty times (including “seven or eight reruns,” he adds); his likeness was just added to the Musée [...]
