DATES NOW SET FOR 5th ANNUAL DANNY BARKER BANJO AND GUITAR FESTIVAL
Organizers have announced the dates for the Danny Barker Banjo and Guitar Festival 2019 in New Orleans. The fifth annual festival is set for a six-day run January 8,, 2019 through January 13, 2019 – and will again offer a mix of school clinics, workshops, panel discussions, interviews and live music performances at a variety of venues. The 2019 festival will be headquartered at the New Orleans Jazz Museum, which will host events for 3 days – Friday, January 11, 2019 – Sunday, January 13, 2019. The festival will also continue to present a popular series of events at other sites around the city, including the Prime Example, Snug Harbor, the George and Joyce Wein Center, Bullet’s Sports Bar, and the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
The live music performances will feature an all-star array of New Orleans artists – and international special guests – including legendary Haitian guitarist and educator Claude Carre` (www.claudecarre.com ), Italian guitarist Fabrizio Sotti, and Senegambian kora master Morikeba Kouyate. A schedule of currently confirmed festival events is attached and included below. Advance tickets for many festival events are now available at www.dannybarkerfestival.com.
Attendees at the festival’s Patron Party Tuesday night, January 8, 2019 (at a private residence at 2924 St. Bernard Avenue) will have the opportunity to participate in a live auction of a “New Orleans Saints” model Schecter guitar autographed by Drew Brees (https://www.schecterguitars.com/index.php ) – plus two other deluxe string instruments – a Deering Good Time Six String banjo (https://www.deeringbanjos.com ) – and Fabrizio Sotti Excel model D’Angelico guitar (https://dangelicoguitars.com ) – with all proceeds from the auction benefitting the festival. Tickets for the Patron Party are available at www.dannybarkerfestival.com – $50 (single) – $75 (couple).
The mission of the Danny Barker Banjo and Guitar Festival is to showcase and highlight the many contributions and accomplishments of NEA Jazz Master Danny Barker: musician, singer, songwriter, raconteur extraordinaire and author – who played guitar and banjo with many top jazz artists over the course of his 70 year plus career – and served as a mentor to numerous young New Orleans artists who have since come to prominence, including Wynton Marsalis, Herlin Riley, Leroy Jones, Gregg Stafford, Dr. Michael White and Lucien Barbarin.
Sponsors of the Danny Barker Banjo and Guitar Festival 2018 include WWL-TV, OffBEAT, The New Orleans Jazz Museum, National Park Service, The Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Foundation, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Jazz Foundation of America, Newcorp.inc, NOCCA, Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro, UNO Jazz Studies Program, WWNO, WHIV,WWOZ, The Prime Example, Louisiana Weekly, the New Orleans Advocate, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Data News, Bullet’s Sports Bar, Deering Banjos, D’Angelico Guitars, Schecter Guitars, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers. Thread Head Cultural Foundation and Whitney Plantation. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available. For complete sponsorship information please contact festival Executive Producer Detroit Brooks – 504-452-6705 – detroitbrooks@yahoo.com
Tuesday January 8th, 2019
Danny Barker Patron Party Gala and Fundraiser
Where: The home of Dr. Sidney and Mrs. Vaughn Fauria, 2924 St. Bernard Avenue
Time: 6:00pm-8:30pm
Food- spirits-music by the Detroit and Kanako Brooks Trio with guests, including Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes
Live auction for three deluxe string instruments: a Deering banjo, Fabrizio Sotti model D’Angelico guitar, and a “New Orleans Saints” guitar – autographed by Drew Brees – from Schecter Guitars.
$50 donation (single) -$75 donation (couple).
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Banjo & Guitar Clinic
Bethune Elementary School
2401 Humanity Street 70122
11:00am-12:00pm
(504) 324-7076
Seva Venet
Hosted by Jonathan Bloom
(Student Participation)
Free admission
International and Local Culture Exchange
Prime Example Jazz Club
1907 Broad Street
8:00pm-12:00am – (504) 701-9007
Brian Seeger -with special guests:
Claude Carré – Steve Masakowski
Detroit A Brooks – Joe Dyson
$20 admission
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Banjo and Guitar Clinic
UNO
2000 Lakeshore Drive
12:30-1:45pm
Hosted by: Steve Masakowski
Don Vappie – David Bandrowski
Special guest – Claude Carre`
Free admission
Danny’s Birthday Bash
Snug Harbor Jazz Club
Gregg Stafford – Dr. Michael White
Freddy Lonzo – Mari Watanabe
Detroit Brooks Sr. – Glenn Andrews
Kerry Lewis – Topsy Chapman
8:00pm and 10:00pm
626 Frenchman Street
(504) 949-0696
$20 admission
Friday, January 11, 2019
Danny Barker: His Life In Jazz – Day 1 of 3 – Three days of great talk, music, and more in celebration of the life and legacy of NEA Jazz Master Danny Barker – in the third floor auditorium of the New Orleans Jazz Museum. – $10 admission – includes access to all NOJM exhibits.
1/11 – 2pm – Leroy Jones and Chris Sylvain talk with Fred Kasten about Danny Barker’s impact on their lives and New Orleans music.
3pm – Gregg Stafford and Fred Johnson talk with Fred Kasten about Danny Barker’s profound and on-going cultural influence.
4pm – Producer Scott Billington, writer Jon Pult and publisher Jan Ramsey share favorite memories of Danny Barker.
5pm – The Arrowhead Jazz Band with guests (live music)
Banjo and Guitar Clinic
NOCCA: Hosted by Michael Pellera
2800 Chartres Street
2:30pm-3:45pm
Carl LeBlanc/Seva Venet
(Student Participation) – Free admission
Danny Barker Banjo and Guitar Night Jam
Featuring top New Orleans and international players
6:00pm-10:00pm
George and Joyce Jazz and Heritage Center
1205 North Rampart Street
(504) 558-6100
Claude Carre (Haiti) – Don Vappie
John Rankin – Carl LeBlanc
Morikeba Kouyate (Senegambia kora master)
Fabrizio Sotti (Italy)
Steve Masakowski – Detroit A Brooks
Chris Severin-Bass
Joe Dyson-Drums
Michael Pellera-Piano
$20 admission
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Danny Barker: His Life In Jazz – Day 2 of 3 – Three days of great talk, music, and more in celebration of the life and legacy of NEA Jazz Master Danny Barker – in the third floor auditorium of the New Orleans Jazz Museum. $10 admission – includes access to all exhibits and performances at New Orleans Jazz Museum and grounds.
1/12 – 11am – Danny Barker: A Life In Jazz – Journalist Gwen Thompkins, writer Jason Berry and editor Molly Reid talk with Fred Kasten about the Historic New Orleans Collection’s recent expanded edition of Danny Barker’s autobiographical memoir A Life In Jazz.
12 noon – Tom McDermott (live music)
Mari Watanabe – 1:00pm (live music)
Wendell Brunious – 2:00pm (live music)
Gregg Stafford – 3:00pm (live music)
Topsy Chapman and Solid Harmony – 4:00pm (live music)
Music of the Banjo – New Orleans Jazz Museum (second floor)
Joe Cushenberry 1:00 – 1:40 pm
Carl LeBlanc 2:00-2:40pm
Seva Venet 3:00-3:40pm
Don Vappie 4:00 -4:40pm
Included in $10 festival admission
Outside Stage at New Orleans Jazz Museum
Charmaine Neville – Amasa Miller – 1-1:40pm
John Boutte – 2:00-2:40p
Gerald French – 3:00-3:40pm
Treme Brass Band with Black Men of Labor – 4:00-4:40pm
Included in $10 festival admission
Saturday Night Spotlight
Bullet’s Sports Bar
2441 AP Tureaud Street
Harry Sterling – 7:00-7:40pm
Les Getrex 8:00-8:40pm
George French 9:00pm-9:40pm
Plus special guests
$15 admission
Sunday, January 13, 2019
In the Beginning: The Fairview Church and Danny Barker
Pastor Chris Sylvain’s multi-media presentation about the beginnings of the Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band
10:00 to 10:30 am (3rd Floor, New Orleans Jazz Museum)
$10 admission includes access to all exhibits and festival performances at New Orleans Jazz Museum and grounds.
Danny Barker Day Parade
Danny Barker Procession of the Young People:
Second-line from New Orleans Jazz Museum to Danny’s house in the French Quarter – through the Quarter – back to the New Orleans Jazz Museum – with the Hot 8 Brass Band
12:00pm-2:30pm
Start: US Mint Building (400 Esplanade Avenue) – head North & across Rampart to St. Claude
Left on St. Claude to Barracks Street (Stop) at Barracks& St. Claude
Continue on St. Claude to St. Philip Street
Left to Rampart Street, continue on Rampart to Orleans
Left on Orleans across Rampart…Continue on Orleans to Royal
Left on Royal to St. Ann
Right on St. Ann to Chartres
Left on Chartres continue to Danny Barker Birthplace (STOP: 1027 Chartres Street)
Right on Ursulines to Decatur
Left on Decatur to Mint (Disband)
Free
Danny Barker Day Proclamation and Celebration
New Orleans Jazz Museum
Mayor or Representative of the City of
New Orleans to make proclamation
Steve Pistorius 12:30 -1:10pm
Leroy Jones 1:30-2:10pm
Mark Brooks 2:30pm-3:10pm
Kermit Ruffins 3:30-4:10pm
Outside stage – $10 festival admission includes access to all exhibits and festival performances at the New Orleans Jazz Museum and grounds.
Danny Barker: His Life In Jazz – Day 3 of 3 – Three days of great talk, music, and more in celebration of the life and legacy of NEA Jazz Master Danny Barker – in the third floor auditorium of the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
1/13 – 1pm – Danny Barker: Man of Many Hats – Pianist Ellis Marsalis, composer Roger Dickerson, clarinetist Dr. Michael White and historian Don Marquis talk with Fred Kasten about Danny Barker’s multiple contributions to New Orleans music and culture.
2pm – Danny Barker Film Fest – Filmmaker Matt Martinez talks about and screens some of his classic segments with Danny and Blue Lu Barker.
3pm – Robert Allen Quartet (live music)
4pm – Dr. Brice Miller’s Band (live music)
Included in $10 festival admission
Adella the Storyteller – 1pm
Greer Goff Mendy – Cultural dance – 2pm
2nd floor
Included in $10 festival admission
Festival Finale
Ellis Marsalis Center
6:00pm-9:00pm
Dr Michael White Quartet
Davell Crawford
Play Them ‘Bones – Featuring trombonists Delfeayo Marsalis, Craig Klein, Corey Henry, and Big Sam Williams
Donald Harrison
Jam Session
$25 admission
