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0 This Friday! Dirty Bourbon & MarchFourth Marching Band!
This Friday Jazz Fest begins. And this is what you’re going to do:
You’re going to go see Wyclef at the fairgrounds. You’re going to have an amazing time. Then, when he’s done at 7, you’re going to step outside the fairgrounds, and you’re going to see these guys causing a ruckus:
Yessir ladies and gentlemen, Marchfourth Marching Band. After a brief show outside the fairgrounds they’ll be leading a march to the Studio 3 Warehouse (3610 Toulouse Street, by the American Can Company) where there’ll be food, booze, and Art Official DJ’s to warm you up and get the party started.
Then, come 9:00pm, Marchfourth will take the stage. Stilt walkers, fire, dancing girls, gigantic brass – you do not want to miss their show.
They will amaze you.
And if that wasn’t enough, to top it all off, Dirty Bourbon will be taking the stage at 10:30pm to finish the night off. We haven’t played in New Orleans since our CD release party at the beginning of this month, so we’re real excited for this one. We’ll have multiple horns and some fire (literally) as well. Don’t miss this night. Here’s your itinerary for this Friday, April 9th:
05:30pm Wyclef John at the Fairgrounds
07:00pm MarchFourth performs at Fairgrounds exit
07:30pm March with MarchFourth to the warehouse
08:00pm Doors open, DJ’s, food & booze, you get comfy
09:00pm MarchFourth Marching Band performs
10:30pm Dirty Bourbon River Show performs
Oh, and did I mention that the show is only Five Dollars!?
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0 Let’s Grow an Even Bigger Beard: Week Seven
Got a good foundation, time to start layering…
0 Let’s Grow an Even Bigger Beard – Week Six
Beach feels good on the beard bristles…
0 Learn How To Play Flying Piano Like The Dirty Bourbon River Show!
Learn how to play the piano from new orleans gypsy style master Noah Adams
Learn how to play flying piano like the Dirty Bourbon River Show you say? Whaa? Yessir ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Noah was nice enough to make a set of 14 instructional videos explicitly detailing how to become a flying piano master – including the theory, technique, licks, runs, fills, trills and more that make up the unholy style that is the Dirty Bourbon flying piano.
Videos range from absolute beginner-level, like “How To Play a C Major Scale”:
And go all the way up to advanced technique, like polyrhythms at extremely fast BPM, like this video:
Check out the rest of our videos on the DirtyBourbonRiverTV Youtube Channel. There’s a lot of interesting stuff, like how to play New Orleans-style, rag time, boogie woogie, improvisations & more.
0 Jimmie Was A Bum Leader
Started With Three Girls to Cemetery and All Got Lost.
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Three little black-eyed girls, who could not have been over 6 years old, all garbed in white dresses, in harmony with Easter, were found near Twelfth and Washington streets yesterday afternoon by Sergeant James Jadwin. The officer’s attention was first attracted when he noticed that the fourth member of the company, a boy about 8 years old, was crying.
“We’re all lost,” he managed to tell the officer.
“Yes, we are lost,” said the older of the three girls. “We live way over by Fifth and Harrison streets. We were going to the graveyard to put flowers on the graves, but Jimmie don’t know the way.”
Sergeant Jadwin surmised at once that they were Italian children, though it would have been impossible to have told by their manner of speech. Jimmie cried until the quartette reached the station, where he recognized the locality. The children were soon surrounded by the officers, who were more than amused by the oldest girl’s plain English, and her denunciation of Jimmie.
“He told us he would take us to the graveyard,” she said, her black eyes snapping. “Then he took us away and away,” and she dramatized the description by motioning with the hands the direction which they had taken. “Then, he’s a cry-baby, too,” she continued, “for as soon as he saw he was lost, he began to cry.”
“Can you write your name?” asked James Cummings, the telephone man.
In answer, the child took the officer’s pencil, and, with childish scrawl which was perfectly legible, she wrote the names of the three others, as well as her own name.
“Maggie Saoa” was her own name, she said, as she showed her skill to the officer. Her two companions, she said, were her cousins, Marie and Josie Saoa, who all lived in the same flat at 532 Harrison street. The boy was identified as James Scarcello, who lives at 536 Harrison street. Thee children were taken home by the wagon driver.
~ Kansas City Journal, April 12, 1909
0 Late Night Piano/Kazoo Improvisations
Yeah, it gets pretty wild from here on out…
1 Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo Wha? Band… yes, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band ~ It’ll spin you round ladies and gents, put a real dent in your sensibilities. Step right up, sip on this silly juice:
Was tipped off to these wild folk by Bob Boilen of NPR’s All Songs Considered, and they have had a smile on my face for the last few hours now. Friends of Sgt. Pepper and the Flying Circus, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band are all about The Show. Feeling down? This’ll spike up that frown:
Hope you enjoy! ~ Noah
0 Famous Beards in History: Charles Darwin
Like the lion, his mane hangs bold and knowing.
0 100 Dirty Bourbon River Show Shows!
The Dirty Bourbon River Show plays it's 100th show.
Was going over some of our Dirty Bourbon records today, and I noticed that our show at the Red Star Bar w/ Holy Ghost Tent Revival 2 Thursdays ago was our 100th show!
Can you believe it? One hundred Dirty Bourbon River Show Shows. Check it out:
51 06.08.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk! w/ Izzy & the Kesstronics
52 06.22.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
53 06.29.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
54 07.03.10 New Orleans, LA – Banks St. Bar w/ Debauche & B-day Burlesque
55 07.04.10 New Orleans, LA – House Party w/ Izzy & the Kesstronics
56 07.10.10 Lafayette, LA – Artmosphere w/ the Howdies
57 07.12.10 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jack’s w/ Bob Log III & Molly Gene
58 07.15.10 New Orleans, LA – Neutral Ground w/ Glasgow
59 07.20.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
60 07.27.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
61 08.01.10 New Orleans, LA – Big Top w/ Holy Ghost Tent Revival
62 08.03.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
63 08.10.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
64 08.17.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
65 08.24.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
66 08.31.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
67 09.05.10 New Orleans, LA – House Party w/ Blue Party & Booty Trove
68 09.07.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
69 09.14.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
70 09.18.10 Jackson, MS – Ole Tavern w/ Glasgow
71 09.21.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
72 09.25.10 New Orleans, LA – Big Top w/ Helen Gillet
73 09.28.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk! w/ Tankus the Henge
74 10.05.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
75 10.08.10 New Orleans, LA – Big Top
76 10.12.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
77 10.16.10 New Orleans, LA – Howlin’ Wolf – Warehousefest
78 10.19.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den – Big Busk!
79 10.22.10 Jackson, MS – Jacktoberfest
80 10.27.10 Hampton, VA – The Taphouse w/ Holy Ghost Tent Revival (HGTR)
81 10.28.10 Roanoke, VA – Awful Arthur’s w/ HGTR
82 10.29.10 New Bern, NC – Issac Taylor Courtyard w/ HGTR
83 10.30.10 Wilmington, NC – Take The Lake Festival w/ HGTR
84 10.31.10 Charleston, SC – Tin Roof w/ HGTR, Megan Jean & the KFB
85 11.02.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den w/ Big Busk!
86 11.05.10 New Orleans, LA – Blue Nile w/ Debauche & New Grass
87 11.09.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den w/ Big Busk!
88 11.16.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den w/ Big Busk!
89 11.23.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den w/ Big Busk!
90 11.30.10 New Orleans, LA – Wolf’s Den w/ Big Busk!
91 01.08.11 Mobile, AL – Callaghan’s w/ HGTR
92 01.09.11 New Orleans, LA – Cafe Prytania w/ HGTR & Miss. Rail Company
93 01.22.11 New Orleans, LA – Le Maison w/ Glasgow
94 02.05.11 Jackson, MS – Ole Tavern w/ Swamp Babies
95 02.12.11 Mobile, AL – Blind Mule w/ Howdies & Blackjacks
96 02.25.11 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon w/ Glasgow & the Have-Naughts
97 03.05.11 Mobile, AL – Callaghan’s
98 03.18.11 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon w/ Gypsy Space Caravan & H-N’s
99 03.19.11 Jackson, MS – St. Paddy’s Day Fest w/ E. Company & Friends
100 03.31.11 Red Stick, LA – Red Star Bar w/ Holy Ghost Tent Revival
And then, tack on the rest of that weekend:
101 04.01.11 Mobile, AL – Callaghan’s w/ Holy Ghost Tent Revival
102 04.02.11 New Orleans, LA – Vol II CD Release Party w/ HGTR & the Tin Men
103 04.03.11 Lafayette, LA – Blue Moon Saloon w/ HGTR & Chubby Carrier
And we arrive at the present.
Just added another April show to the calender today (we were hoping to take the rest of this month off, but how could we say no to burlesque, bananas, fire, candy, cannons & possibly a moonbounce?):
104 04.21.11 New Orleans, LA – TUCP Party w/ Y△CHT & Crazy Shit
And we’ve got a boatload of amazing shows coming up this May (and all through Spring into June too, check the sidebar!):
105 05.05.11 New Orleans, LA – Cafe Prytania – Cinco De Mayo Jazz Fest Show w/ Glasgow, Vox & the Hound, Raffles, Prizes, Special Guests & More!
106 05.19.11 Tuscaloosa, AL – Egan’s Bar
107 05.20.11 Atlanta, GA – 529 w/ Blair Crimmins & the Hookers + Lillie
108 05.21.11 Gainsville, GA – Monkey Barrel w/ Holy Ghost Tent Revival
109 05.22.11 Birmingham, AL – The Nick
110 05.24-31.11 ______, NC – Top Secret Party w/ Holy Ghost Tent Revival
Man, that’s a lot of shows. What a long way we’ve come.
And what a long way to go…
See you at the next Dirty Bourbon River Show Show.
~ Noah
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