For your viewing and listening pleasure, please enjoy these short videos of Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis and others performing live at the House of Blues in New Orleans.
This Examiner was in New Orleans recently and besides partaking of some excellent food and libation, had a musical experience that may have been a once in a lifetime experience. Walking in the French Quarter to the House of Blues with friends, we bumped into the music legend, Allen Toussaint…..a very influential figure in New Orleans R&B and that was neat! Upon arriving at the venue where we were all set to have a cocktail and hear a little jazz, we found out we were headed into a benefit to celebrate the opening of the Ellis Marsalis Music Center, located at the Habitat for Humanity’s’ Musicians Village, built after Katrina.
Not only did we hear Ellis Marsalis on the piano, three of his four sons including Branford, jamming alongside a guitarist from Hootie and the Blowfish, we heard John Boutte and Germaine Bazzle two amazing singers who have been featured on HBO’s Treme series. But the most thrilling part of the evening was when I spied the next gentleman to step to the piano, Harry Connick Jr. What a fabulous surprise.
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