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Showing posts with label Voice of the Wetlands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voice of the Wetlands. Show all posts
Monday's Music Moves Me is a freebie and I just scratched the surface of the music from my October road trip on my last 4 M post. Well let's get some more tunes!
Eric McFadden "While You Was Gone"
What's better than Eric McFadden add Doug Wimbish on bass
Pictures by me. Doug Wimbish is an incredible bassist who was in the roc band Living Colour. The band that hada hit with "Cult of Personality"
There was Jonathon Long to keep the guitar fireworks going..."Pray for Me"
The very talented Johnny Sansone was there "The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too"
The blues, swamp music might be enough for the Rocktober Fest too!
The wi-fi in my hotel room did not work very well. I've been going to the Voice of the Wetlands Festival each year for the last five years including this year. Even before I lived close enough to make going to the festival a reality, it was a festival I wanted to go to because of the music. Living four hours away makes it an easy decision. First it was the music and then the cause. Each year I added more to the trip. First it was hiking and exploring. Then it was hiking and the Gator farm. Then is was adding the fishing trip. Then it was the swamp tour. Then this year I went hiking everyday except Friday. I discovered a new hiking trail as well. I doubled up on the swamp tours. Music was the draw but enjoying the wetlands on my visits has caught up with it.
If the wetlands disappeared I could still enjoy the music maybe in New Orleans or support the artists when they play in my backyard. I would lose a place for a fishing trip. Yes I know I could possibly book one elsewhere. I would lose my hiking spots. Never enough hiking spots but yes I could find others. Swamp tours well if it is gone there isn't anything to tour. However, the guy I went with was continuing something his Mom started back around 1965. Something that has lasted over 50 years would be gone.
Tab Benoit "Whole Lotta Soul"
How about listening to a Grammy Award winning Zydeco Band...
Chubby Carrier "Zydeco Junkie"
Well if that doesn't capture where I am maybe this one will
Nonc Nu $5 a tail
Mike Zito came in from Texas
More information on the festival and charity can be found here.
Today is Tab Benoit's birthday. If you don't know who Tab Benoit is don't worry. At one time I had never heard of him. That all changed the first time I went to Jazz Fest. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival commonly referred to Jazz Fest.
My friend Eric who knows my musical tastes pretty well took me to the Blues Tent and told me I had to watch this guy Tab Benoit perform. I have been hooked ever since. My friend Eric took a year off to write and experience New Orleans and if interested you can check out his blog My Year of Mardi Gras. We don't always agree on music and we don't it leads to great debates, often we do agree and ends up being turned on to an artist we might not have been aware of.
Besides Tab's musical talent I also respect him for his work on saving the wetlands and the environment. Stop by the Voice of the Wetlands site to learn more about that. Tab also puts together one of the best family friendly music festivals, the Voice of the Wetlands Festival which I blogged about here.
Tab performing with the Voice of the Wetland's All-Stars photo by me..
Here Tab and the VOW All-Stars perform "Louisiana Sunshine"..
Here is something from the Festival I went to, Tab Benoit joined by Albert Castiglia on "Night Train"
Here is a song you may have heard "Shelter Me"..
Happy Birthday Tab Benoit! If you like blues, blues rock, swamp music then do yourself a favor and check out Tab Benoit.
