First, help by donating to the Red Cross, then celebrate New Orleans musical history by seeing Kermit Ruffins on Saturday.
Obviously check and see if Kermit is actually going to make it, though the with all of the stages–something will be worth it.
UPDATE: For those that have been there, I haven’t been able to get Tipitinas or Le Bon Temps Roule out of my mind. Strangely, Mark Brown mentions Tipitina’s in his column. Perhaps odder, both are probably in relatively good condition given their location in Uptown.
Le Bon Ton on Magazine Street? I’ve stopped by there on every visit to NOLA. I saw Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots there once. I turned 30 at Tipitinia’s with the Dirty Dozen. This is just too depressing.
Yeah, it goes by Le Bon Ton and it’s on Magazine. I’ve seen Ruffins there once. And yeah, way depressing
I used to live across the street from Le Bon Temps (among several places uptown), and used to go see Kermit on Wednesday nights. Good to know he’s keeping N.O. alive somewhere.