Celebrating New Orleans

Saturday's SummerStage line-up featured New Orleans bands. New Orleans’ music is always relevant and popular, but surely this event was planned to coincide with the approaching 2nd anniversary of Katrina and also to benefit musicians who are very much in the process of recovering like the rest of the city's residents. Saw the Soul Rebels Brass Band perform. They're a lively bunch, and I give them credit for making the crowd of jaded NYers dance and jump around in the blazing hot sun. One of the guys in the band recorded a video during their set, and the clip is posted on their MySpace page. The audience consisted of people who'd just wandered in from the park and/or people who go to SummerStage no matter who's playing, but there also seemed to be a fair amount of New Orleans expats. Some people carried second line umbrellas, and others waved fleur de lis flags. I wore my "Make Levees, Not War" T-shirt, and I met several people wearing the same shirt.

The Soul Rebels do their thing.


Bethesda Fountain.


Recently restored tile ceiling in the Bethesda Terrace Arcade.