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Breaking Out: British Blues to New Orleans Bounce Breaking Out: British Blues to New Orleans Bounce December 4th, 2019 (Hour 1)
Breaking Out: British Blues to New Orleans Bounce

From Great Britain to the Big Easy, we explore the sounds of musical and social breakouts. First, we hear how British blues pioneer John Mayall broke out of England with his band the Bluesbreakers, bringing British blues to a larger audience. We’ll hear some of Mayall’s sources and contemporaries, like Big Maceo and Eric Clapton. Then, it’s butt shakes and backbeats with Big Freedia, the Queen Diva of New Orleans Bounce, a rhythmic dance music with sources in hip hop and rap, as well as much earlier jazz and R&B. We’ll explore some of those sources, and strut with Kermit Ruffins and Sam Morgan, head “Down Yonder” with Smiley Lewis, and “Take it to the Street” with Rebirth Brass Band.

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LABOR DAY LIVE FROM NEW ORLEANS

August 28th, 2019

This Labor Day weekend, we’re rockin’ from the French Quarter Festival: a free, homegrown, four-day annual event featuring a vast array of local music presented on stages throughout the city’s oldest neighborhood. We’ll hear from trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, Creole banjo man Don Vappie, zydeco accordionist Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and his Sunspots, the all-female Original Pinettes Brass Band, Latin rockers the Iguanas, and trombonist Corey Henry’s Tremé Funket. Join us for music to chill by for the working women and men of our United States.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open bed: Hey Look Me Over Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ swingers
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Hallelujah I Love Her So Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Skokian Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Jock-A-Mo (Iko Iko) Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Instrumental: Choo Choo Ch'Boogie Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Bunny Bread Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Cayenne & Cowain Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Mo t'laime avec tout ma couer Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Zydeco et pas sales Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Royal Garden Blues Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Jolie Fille Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Flying Horses Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • St. James Infirmary Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Eh la bas Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Closing Bed: Yellow Fever Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Breakaway The Original Pinettes Brass Band
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Amy Winehouse Tribute Medley The Original Pinettes Brass Band
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Pinettes Medley The Original Pinettes Brass Band
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Instrumental: Noche de Cumbia The Iguanas
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Love Sucker The Iguanas
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Oye Isabelle The Iguanas
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • El Alacran The Iguanas
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Getcho Money Ready Corey Henry Treme Funktet
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Only in New Orleans Corey Henry Treme Funktet
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Shake Your Money Maker Corey Henry Treme Funktet
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,
  • Closing Bed: Slippin' into Darkness Corey Henry Treme Funktet
    American Routes original recording from French Quarter Festival 2019,

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