JazzFest, and the week between, isn't all (or even mostly) about the big stars from out of town; it's mostly about local musicians of all types who gather back home (this year even more than ever) to make great music in some of the best spots to make music. Tipitina's is one of those spots and Monday night was one of those times. Soul Project, Little Freddy King, Tab Benoit and his star studded Voice of the Wetlands band, Shannon McNally, Galactic, Donald Harrison Jr., and Walter Wolfman Washington all played last night in a benefit for the Tipitina's Foundation. The concert was called "Instruments A Comin'" and it serves as a benefit to supply musical instruments to New Orleans school kids.
Like most things in New Orleans, it was about fun as much as it was about raising money, a fact that pretty much every performer made it a point to mention. An astonishing evening of creative, unusual blendings of music and musical styles topped of by an insane cab ride with two friends and a group of highly inebriated folks from somewhere in Europe (I not only couldn't understand their English, I couldn't understand their apparently "NATIVE" language either).
In a town that has been repeatedly referred to as adult Disneyland, last night felt a little bit like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
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