Articles:

http://www.tipitinas.com/rss/news.asp#[12/17/05]%20Arlo%20Guthrie%20feat.%20Willie%20Nelson.%20%20TIX%20sold%20out!


Here's another article and the video.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/ ... rchStories

is there a way to download the video at abcnews.com? i tried a few things but no luck!

Neither of the CBS ones are connecting, and I have broadband.

You can save it if you can get to it and left clicking and saving it as. Unless they have it blocked.

i tried that but on the abc one, all i got saved was a mostly blank page and the cbs one gives a message saying it can't do it. rats!

Another wonderful show from Arlo, Family and Friends...

Thank you all for what you've been doing, and thank you to the Guthrie Foundation, Tipitina's Foundation, MusiCares, AMTRAK, and everyone who is making this effort to bring the music back to New Orleans.

And this was on Yahoo this morning:

Concert brings music back to New Orleans By Michele Gershberg


Singers Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson staged a musical homecoming for hurricane-wrecked New Orleans on Saturday night, bringing back a taste of the songs for which the city is famed.

In a concert dedicated to assisting musicians who lost their homes, instruments and livelihoods when Hurricane Katrina flooded the city on August 29, the two pledged to help its songmakers find their voices again.

"The best music comes from difficult times," Guthrie told Reuters. "There will be an injection of something different into New Orleans as a result of the disaster ... the culture here will swallow it up, and something new will sparkle."

Guthrie embarked earlier this month on a musical tour aboard the "City of New Orleans," the train he made famous with a song of the same name by Steve Goodman.

The train, now operated by Amtrak, runs through the heart of the United States from Chicago to New Orleans.

With songs such as "City of New Orleans," "We Don't Run" and "This Land is Your Land," Nelson and Guthrie played to a packed house at Tipitina's, the local nightclub that fostered such talent as the Neville Brothers.

The blues, jazz and folk music of New Orleans is trickling back to the city, even as many musicians remain stranded elsewhere along with tens of thousands of other displaced residents.

Some fear those traditions will be changed forever by the disaster as poorer artists face a dire housing shortage. The instruments, musical scores and record collections of many were ruined in the storm, wiping out a history of song.

But on Saturday night, the mood was hopeful.

"It's nice to see a city that loves its decadence, that loves its freedom," Guthrie said. "I'm amazed at how much has already come back and I'm amazed at how much needs to be done."

Music lovers also expressed their belief in a revival.

"New Orleans musicians are very determined and very resilient," said Tipitina's owner Roland von Kurnatowski. "They're going to tough it out."

Kurnatowski rents rehearsal halls for bands and said most of his musicians had kept their bookings for the space. His club runs a charity for hard-hit artists, finding them apartments or ready cash.

Trumpet player James Andrews lost his home and his horn in the flood and now plays on a donated instrument that he said once belonged to band leader Doc Severinsen.

"We're going to bring New Orleans back, baby," he said. "It's going to take the musicians to do it. New Orleans is one of the unique things about the planet."


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so, how many let the kids listen to the Folk Uke set ?

All my daughters are over twenty.

kurt...

Oh no! Now I know what I missed when my network crashed. I lost the feed shortly after Sarah Lee announced the 10 minute intermission. By the time I realized I'd lost my Internet connection, rebooted the network and contacted Verizon... I guess I missed more than I had thought.

What did they sing? Oh, I can't believe I missed them

It was a great set... they started with "Fences", followed by "Knock me Up"... then they announced the next two songs required parental advisement... and asked their dads to come and 'advise' them. They did "Sh*t Makes the Flowers Grow" (lots of audience laughter on that one) and then dedicated "Motherf***er Got F***ed Up" to Richard Pryor. Willie sang a verse of that one!

aawww, thanks, Wyld. I missed a terrific part of the show! Shucks... maybe Arlo'll take you up on your idea and made the DVD available... by Christmas!

Man I missed those newscasts on tv. It figures they'd show them when I wasn't home to see them...

To Arlo and extended family....many thanks from New Orleans "thats what friends do..."come back soon!!!