FQF

A performer on stage - riverboat docked in background.

French Quarter Festival was developed as a festival for locals to get out and hear local music. It was created due to the overwhelming growth of Jazz Fest, and was 2 weeks before the big show this year. A town creates a festival because another festival is too big – right on! Mid-April is a great time to be outside, listening to great music, eating great food, and enjoying the great scenery. Overall it was a pretty magical time. Meg and I caught the Rebirth Brass Band’s set in Woldenberg Park, which is on the river at the base of the French Quarter. They let it rip and you would have to be terribly ill or a real stuck-in-the-mud to refrain from dancing. I wouldn’t even want to know you if you chose not to dance to Rebirth in beautiful place like that. ‘Rebirth on fire, Rebirth on fire!’