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Music Memory from Leonard Service
Read more: Music Memory from Leonard ServiceIn this episode of Confetti Park, we hear a childhood music memory from Leonard Service of Shreveport, Louisiana. Leonard plays mandolin and guitar regularly with different groups such as Slydell and the Slippery Slope, the New Levee Serenaders, Trashcan Jinga and more. He’s also a member of the Friends of Lead Belly. Leonard grew up…
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Storytime: The Lord’s Supper by Ms. Chocolate
Read more: Storytime: The Lord’s Supper by Ms. ChocolateIn this episode of Confetti Park, we hear a wonderful and true childhood story from the Louisiana-born storyteller Ms. Chocolate. This is a story about when she attended her first Lord’s Supper at the Galilee Baptist Church in Alexandria, Louisiana. Ms. Chocolate was only four years old, but she was looking forward to the supper…
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Music Memory from Hazel Schlueter
Read more: Music Memory from Hazel SchlueterHazel Schlueter is well known for her old time country music and bluegrass show on WWOZ (90.7 FM in New Orleans) and for her musical performances as the band leader of Hazel & the Delta Ramblers. In this episode of Confetti Park, Hazel shares a music memory from her early childhood. When she was just…
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Music Memory from Roger Lewis
Read more: Music Memory from Roger LewisNew Orleans musician Roger Lewis shares a childhood music memory with Confetti Park about his first love, the saxophone. Roger Lewis has had a wonderful career in music that keeps him traveling around the world to this day. The baritone saxophonist is a founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, which began in 1977!…
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Music Memory from Julieann Banks
Read more: Music Memory from Julieann BanksJulieann Banks is an Americana artists from Shreveport, Louisiana. A wonderful singer-songwriter with a big soulful voice, Julieann has been playing music most of her life, and has performed extensively in the Austin, Texas area as well as Louisiana. Julieann had a childhood rich with musical and cultural experiences. Her parents were supportive of the…
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Sunday Afternoons – a poem by Darrell Bourque
Read more: Sunday Afternoons – a poem by Darrell Bourque“It was the sound of horses’ hooves that drummed and lodged…” Louisiana poet laureate Darrell Bourque narrates a poem of childhood for Confetti Park. This is “Sunday Afternoons,” a memory of his own experiences growing in a rural Cajun community near Sunset, Louisiana. Mr. Bourque is Professor Emeritus in English at the University of Louisiana…
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Music Memory from Duane Pitre
Read more: Music Memory from Duane PitreIn this episode of Confetti Park, we hear a formative childhood music memory from Duane Pitre, American composer, sound artist, and guitarist. Duane tends to focus on one thing at a time and learns it inside and out—whether that thing is skateboarding, composing experimental music, or playing guitar. (The former pro skateboarder says he has…
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Music Memory from Anthony Dopsie
Read more: Music Memory from Anthony DopsieIn this episode of Confetti Park, we hear from Anthony Dopsie, accordion player with Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters. Anthony explains his role in the band (“I put the choo choo to the boogaloo!“) and he shares a childhood memory about growing up in a musical family. The Dopsies are Louisiana royalty—Anthony’s father was Rockin’ Dopsie,…
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Music Memory from Jayna Morgan
Read more: Music Memory from Jayna MorganNew Orleans jazz vocalist Jayna Morgan shares a music memory from her childhood in this episode of Confetti Park. Jayna, who sings with the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band and the Swing Setters (among others), recalls the happiness of sharing music with her mother. When Jayna was a child, they would go fishing together, and whenever they…
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Music Memory from organist Louis Mayer
Read more: Music Memory from organist Louis MayerLouis Mayer has been a church organist for over 45 years. From a very young age, Louis had a fascination and love for organs. In this Music Memory for Confetti Park, Louis, who grew up in New Orleans, recalls taking piano lessons at Werlein’s Music Store at 605 Canal St. (today the site of Palace…
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Music Memory from Cynthia Girtley
Read more: Music Memory from Cynthia GirtleyCynthia Girtley is a well-known gospel singer and music minister in New Orleans. Raised in a family with strong spiritual beliefs and church traditions, Cynthia started singing at age three and joined her church’s gospel choir when she was four. In this music memory, Cynthia talks about how it was that she came to be…
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Storytime: Childhood in 1920s Cajun country
Read more: Storytime: Childhood in 1920s Cajun countryStorytime: Childhood in 1920s Cajun Country Vignettes from Annie Hardy Calais “My name is Annie Hardy Calais. I was born on July 26, 1927… The year of the great flood, the same day as St. Ann, that is the day of her feast.” So begins this lovely memoir of Annie Hardy Calais, who shares many…
