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Musical photos from the first week of January: New Year's Day party joy; somber at Tad Jones' funeral

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A friend just pointed me to a website with pix of some friends of mine and I on 30 Sept, when we had our Memorial Tumble Parade for our departed trumpet playing comrade "Bear" Lemonie (see 12 Sept Journal), late king of the Carnival Krewes of MOMs, Dreiux, & Kosmic Debris.

It's the "Birdsong Photography" site. The front page has a picture of the ( Read more... )