I’m hitting the book trail again, with stops at the The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival March 23, The Norges Musikkorps Forbund in Norway April 3&4, The Columbia University Center for Ethnomusicology April 10, and the EMP Museum PopCon April 26. First up: Thacker Mountain Radio in Oxford, MS. Taping this Thursday and airing Saturday…

Rebirth Brass Band keeps threatening to retire from the streets, so no one was surprised when they weren’t at yesterday’s second line parade for their friends in the Treme Sidewalk Steppers club. But about hour in, Rebirth just came out of nowhere playing “Let’s Go Get Em,” and with them was Trombone Shorty, Corey Henry,…

The Tulane University “New Wave” made a video of me talking about brass bands using footage from the upcoming documentary Brass Roots…  

A nice write-up from the All About Jazz website. I’m relieved that the message from the book is making sense to folks who are learning about New Orleans traditions for the first time…

I had a blast at my first book reading last night… thanks to Rebirth Brass Band for playing in between my excerpts, especially bandleader Philip Frazier for being so generous…

This Tuesday at 6pm I will give the first reading for the book, so I’ve enlisted the help of my friends in the Rebirth Brass Band. I’ll read passages about them and their songs and they’ll be beside me to play those very songs. Here’s a full review of the book from this Sunday’s Times-Picayune…

Lots of announcements rolling out about the book release party, this Friday November 8 at 8pm at Sweet Lorraine’s… from nola.com…   and press street’s room 220 literary blog…              

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