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October 2011
Selena cooked all night and day…grits and grillades, collard greens, and BBQ pulled pork with a Carolina style sauce… then we watched LSU beat Kentucky on TV and prepared to light up the burn pile for the first time in months. The neighbors are cooking the fresh kill of game tonight, over a wood fire, and the temperatures are just about perfect. It’s a great start to my fall here on October 1st.
I always call this time of year “the month of savings,” hoping the utility bills will be low: less AC, no need for heater. It’s also a wonderful festival season. And, of course, the Saints and Tigers are rolling along into the early season. It’s a time I bother the wife with emails of fun upcoming activities, and all the choices she must make about which event, festival, night out, day trip, tailgate party, or Saints brunch we will attend. But, she comes around and we go have fall fun, for my sake. I find myself with a slight lack of weekend bookings, so I think we’ll hit at least one extra event this year! Here are a few:
Gretna Heritage Festival, Oct. 7 – 9 www.gretnafest.com
Carnaval Latino, Oct. 8 – 9 www.carnavallatinonola.com
Andouille Festival, Oct. 14 – 16 www.andouillefestival.com My very own Selena was Miss Andouille 1986!
Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival, Oct. 14 – 16 www.crescentcitybluesfest.com
Festival Acadiens, Oct. 14 – 16 www.festivalsacadiens.com
Deutsches Haus Oktoberfest at River Town, Kenner Oct. 14 – 16, Oct. 21 – 23 http://deutscheshaus.org/2011/09/15/oktoberfest-2011 With the old location of The Haus gone, the new location apparently can’t handle this event – so, it’s moving to River Town for two weekends only.
Washington Parish Free Fair, Oct. 19 – 22 http://freefair.com Always some good, classic country acts
French Food Festival in Larose, Oct. 28 – 30 http://www.bayoucivicclub.org/festivals.htm I just think the food at this one would be awesome.
Feast on the Levee, Oct. 30 http://sjb-brusly.com/images/stories/docs/Flyerfeast2011.pdf This sounds like a fun, one-day, church fair, with my friends in Mojeaux playing.
The Voodoo Music Experience, Oct. 28 – 30 http://thevoodooexperience.com/2011 Never have been, but Selena’s daughter is absolutely dying to be there!
Now, some work news: It’s been a while, but Laurie Whitney and I will play some tunes together at On the Half Shell, Wed. October 5. I continue with the Monjuni’s fall patio gigs on Oct. 14. Chris LeBlanc and I perform together on Oct. 20 at the Jack Daniels Bar at L’Auberge in Lake Charles. I haven’t been back to Onezia since Elvis and Jesse, so catch me there on Oct. 27. And I get back to The Rusty Nail in the Warehouse District, New Orleans on Oct. 28. I’m taking two Sundays off from Beausoleil this month, but I will be there all the others, through the rest of this year. Excuse my looking sideways at the Saints on the tube, over the bar. The new patio is open at Beausoleil, by the way, and it’s gonna be a great place to enjoy their food this fall and spring.
Debbie Landry is hosting the annual Halloween jam at French Quarter Daiquiris on Essen Lane. This year it’s Saturday, Oct. 29.
Happy birthday to Elizabeth, Selena’s baby girl, now a cheerleader and volleyball team member!
As always, I thank you for finding me playing music, reading this newsletter, and being great friends. I hope you are all well and blessed. Selena and I have both lost folks dear to us this past month, and we hope their families and friends will find comfort, in time. I take mine in her and this wonderful life I have been given. I hope you can get out there and scare up some good times. It’s Oktoberfest!!
Prost!!!!
Kirk
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