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| Cutting Edge: music event in New Orleans' oldest neighborhood The Music Tent is a temporary retail and performance venue that will be in operation May 2 – May 6, 2007. Merchandise, food and beverages will be sold and nighttime performances will be held. A festival tent will be erected at 1518 North Claiborne Avenue, between the Neighborhood Civic and Arts Center and Ernie K- Doe's Mother-in-Law Lounge. The goal is to establish a place where visitors, locals and students can enjoy the music and culture of New Orleans as it exists in our neighborhoods, attend music workshops given by guest artists, buy New Orleans music directly from New Orleans artists and sample their music through "in-store performances" daily, beginning at 12 noon. There will be nighttime music performances by local artists many of whom are not performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The Music Tent will pay tribute to New Orleans nightclubs which nurtured New Orleans music, in particular two of New Orleans now defunct but definitively legendary nightclubs: Dorothy's Medallion and Lu and Charlie's. At Dorothy's Medallion you could see great New Orleans Blues and Rhythm & Blues artists such as Earl King, Walter "Wolfman" Washington and Rocky Charles; Lu and Charlie's featured New Orleans Contemporary Jazz greats such as Ellis Marsalis, James Black, Julius Farmer, James Singleton, Johnny Vidacovich, "Kidd" Jordan, Earl and "Willie Tee" Turbinton. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |