| The
2008 Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival |
By
Big Dave, with photo
help from Ravenlight
Studios
| This
years music |
-
Mosby Group
- The SteamRollers
- Pfeffer Trio Featuring
Debby Lennon
- Soulard Blues Band
- Marquise Knox Blues
Band
- Anita Rosamond
- Webster University
Faculty Jazz Band
- Webster Groves High
School Jazz Band
- Gumbohead with Special
Guest The Funky Butt
Brass Band
- Erin Bode Group |
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 The
Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival played to
a packed crowd this last Saturday, Sept. 20th!
As the skies cleared, more and more music seekers
poured onto the streets of Webster Groves for
this event, a jewel in the crown of St. Louis
music events.
This year the free, award-winning, family jazz
and blues fest celebrated the music and culture
of Louisiana. Like the state's signature dish,
gumbo, this year's festival offered a spicy
stew of diverse ingredients from the Big Easy,
and the soulful holler of the blues that was first
sung in the Mississippi Delta.
As fitting a N'awlins tribute, the Funky Butt
Brass band led a second-line down the street,
with lots of exuberant fans joining in. Led
by Mrs. Frances Johnson, this moved everyone
in the crowd to do a little second line of their
own! GUMBOHEAD closed the evening as only they
can do! GUMBOHEAD is a collective of rhythmic
rapscallions and tuneful tricknologists who
find great joy playing music born in and influenced
by New Orleans and southwest Louisiana.
Lots
of hard work made this event a success, from
the staff at the OWJBF, and the outstanding
bands and fans that keep the music alive.
Make sure you add the 2009 Old Webster Jazz
and Blues Festival to your 'must-do' festival
planning, and tell them STLBlues sent you!
In the meantime, enjoy our photo gallery below,
and our Live
Music Calendar!
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Todd
Mosby
Jeremy
Pfeffer band, with Debby
Lennon
Tom
Maloney of the Soulard
Blues Band
The
Soulard Blues Band
Marty
Abdullah of the Soulard
Blues Band
Marty
Abdullah & Art Dwyer
of the Soulard Blues
Band
Jeremy
Pfeffer with Debby Lennon
Jeremy
Pfeffer trio
Marquise
Knox, a 17 year old
Blues prodigy
More
blues
Webster
High School Jazz Band
Webster
Faculty Jazz Band
Second
Line, led by Mrs. Frances
Johnson and Marquise
Knox
Second
Line, with the Funky
Butt Brass Band
Gumbohead
big band
Gumbohead
Bennett
Schaeffer of Gumbohead
Street
Dancers
Festival
Crowd
Marquise
Knox, a 17 year old
Blues prodigy
Marquise
Knox, a 17 year old
Blues prodigy
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