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Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?
Wall Street Journal Summer Scoops continues with talk about arts post Hurricane Katrina
Trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard (Photo: Carol Friedman)
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The Wall Street Journal continues its Summer Scoops series with a chat with New Orleans artists whose work acts to preserve the culture of the embattled city. Larry Blumenfeld, who writes about jazz for the Wall Street Journal will be administering the talk which looks to explore how and why musicians, film makers and artists continue to make art in and draw attention to the problems New Orleans has encountered since Hurricane Katrina.
The talk, titled “Do You Know What is Means to Miss New Orleans?” will feature trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard as well as Ira Padnos, founder of the Ponderosa Stomp, which seeks to promote American roots music through an annual festival, and singer Tammy Lynn. A live performance by the Terry Blanchard Quintet will cap the evening and Tammy Lynn will appear in “A Tribute to Wardell Quezergue” at Lincoln Center Festival on July 19th.
Blanchard, whose work appeared in Spike Lee’s Hurricane Katrina documentary When the Levees Broke, has recently received critical acclaim for 2007’s A Tale of God’s Will, a collection dedicated to and exploring the event at aftermath of the hurricane. Tammy Lynn has been hailed as a voice whose wide range of style and genre reflects the myriad of cultural influences of New Orleans and Ira Padnos has worked for years to bring the jambalaya mix of world influences that is Big Easy Music to the forefront through his Ponderosa Stomp Festival.
For more information on the Summer Scoops series and this event, including tickets and times, visit wsj.com/live or follow the Wall Street Journal series on twitter at twitter.com/wsjlive.