NEW ORLEANS — At 75, Deacon John Moore considers himself one of the lucky ones: The scion of three generations of music-making Creoles, he’s been able to sustain himself with his guitar, raise a family, buy a house. Most other musicians here, he says, aren’t so fortunate.
He’s tooling around the streets of Tremé — one of the nation’s oldest black neighborhoods and the birthplace of jazz — in his ancient Volvo, pointing out all the gentrified houses, the ones with the jacked up rents. Everybody wants to live here now, he said.
New Orleans is enjoying a renaissance 12 years after being devastated by Hurricane Katrina. It took in $7 billion in tourism dollars in 2015, and the city’s famed music scene was a big reason for the draw.
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2 comments:
It's so nice to hear and see that this culture is working for what they have.
We have plenty of room for them in the Baltimore area , maybe they can teach these idiots something.
WOW, Salisbury was ahead of the curve. I think it is just wonderful what the City of Salisbury has done for their starving artists. It worked so well that they are going to build more housing for all the starving artists that the City of Salisbury has.
NOW ALL WE NEED IS SOME MORE CRAYONS AND COLORING BOOKS SO THEY CAN KEEP PRACTICING !!!
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