BY ADMISSION - $15
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2022 DANNY BARKER BANJO AND GUITAR FESTIVAL
The mission of the Danny Barker Banjo and Guitar Festival is to showcase and highlight the many contributions and accomplishments of NEA Jazz Master Danny Barker: musician, singer, songwriter, educator, raconteur extraordinaire and author - who played guitar and banjo with many top jazz artists over the course of his 70 year plus career – and served as a mentor to numerous young New Orleans artists who have since come to prominence, including Wynton Marsalis, Herlin Riley, Leroy Jones, Gregg Stafford and Dr. Michael White.
The 2022 festival will also honor two other stalwarts of New Orleans music and culture with deep connections to Danny Barker’s legacy – Hot 8 Brass Band co-founder and sousaphonist Bennie Pete - and jazz historian Don Marquis (In Search of Buddy Bolden) – both of whom passed away in 2021
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11:30 am – Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake
12:30 pm – Steve Pistorius Band
1:30 pm – Wendell Brunious Band
2:30 pm – Herlin Riley Quartet
3:30 pm – George and Gerald French Band
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11 am – Shannon Powell Quartet
12 pm – Charmaine Neville Band
1 pm – Mark Brooks Quartet
2 pm – Gregg Stafford and the Jazz Hounds
3pm – Don Vappie and grioTrio
4 pm – Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers
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Two days of great stories about – and (on tape) from Danny Barker – plus highlights of Danny and Blu Lu Barker’s recorded cannon – in the New Orleans Jazz Museum’s Education Center.
12pm – Danny Barker Talks and Plays – Select excerpts from a half dozen interviews with Danny Barker – plus a sampling of great recordings by Danny and Blu Lu Barker – with radio producer and host Fred Kasten.
1pm –A 21st Century Creole Jazz Serenader – Guitarist, banjoist, vocalist, composer, bandleader and musicologist: Don Vappie is all these things, and puts his own spin on the multi-faceted approach to music and culture that Danny Barker so brilliantly represented. He discusses his life in music with journalist and author Keith Spera.
2pm – Danny Barker: Cultural Advocate and Educator – Community activist Fred Johnson and educator Jonathan Bloom talk with Fred Kasten about Danny Barker’s legacy as an ambassador of and advocate for New Orleans culture – and as an educator.
3pm – Danny and Blu Lu Barker Take on the Big Apple – In their three plus decades on the scene in New York City, Danny and Blu Lu Barker were important members of a creative community that included Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Danny’s uncle Paul Barbarin, and Barbarin’s song-writing partner Luis Russell. Grammy-winning vocalist Catherine Russell (Luis Russell’s daughter) and jazz historian Paul Kahn join us by video to discuss the Barkers’ time in NYC and creative connections there with Fred Kasten.
4pm – Video Danny and Blu Lu – will feature selections from the Danny and Blu Lu Barker Collection at Tulane University Special Collections. Melissa A. Weber, curator of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, will conduct a video tour of the collection and filmmaker Matt Martinez will present select video segments with the Barkers.