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 – Topsy Chapman and Solid Harmony
12:30 pm – Sharon Martin and the Danny Barker Tribute Band
1:30 pm – Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and band
2:30 pm – Mari Watanabe Band
3:30 pm – Steve Masakowski and the Masakowski Family Band
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12 pm – Seva Venet Band
1 pm – John Boutte
2pm – Mahmoud Chouki Trio
4pm – Treme Brass Band with Black Men of Labor and Baby Dolls
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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, Jelly Roll and the Dirty Dozen – Grammy-winning producer Scott Billington discusses his forthcoming book Making Tracks: A Record Producer’s Southern Roots Music Journey with Fred Kasten, reads portions of it dealing with time in the studio with Danny Barker working on two Dirty Dozen Brass Band recordings - Jelly and The New Orleans Album – and plays taped highlights of his interviews with Danny Barker during those sessions.
1pm – Herlin Riley: “Perpetual Optimism” and paying forward the legacy of Danny Barker – New Orleans rhythm master Herlin Riley discusses Danny Barker’s profound impact on his life and career – and ways he tries to pass it on – with journalist, author and host of public radio’s Music Inside Out – Gwen Thompkins.
2pm - Gregg Stafford, Danny Barker and the Jazz Hounds – Trumpeter and vocalist Gregg Stafford discusses his long association with Danny and Blu Lu Barker – from the Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band to the Jazz Hounds and beyond – with long-time WWOZ jazz programmer and host Sally Young.
3pm – Danny Barker: His legacy is marching on! – Clarinetist, composer and educator Dr. Michael White and composer and educator Roger Dickerson discuss Danny Barker’s on-going legacy in New Orleans and beyond with interviewer and producer Fred Kasten.
4pm – Tribute to author and New Orleans Jazz Museum founder Don Marquis – Jazz historian Charles Chamberlain, retired steamboat captain and calliope player Doc Hawley, writer and film director Daniel Pritzker (Bolden), and curator Patrick Burns discuss with Fred Kasten the many contributions to the documenting of jazz in New Orleans and New Orleans culture made by late (passed away July 29, 2021 at age 88) author, historian and Jazz Museum founder Don Marquis.