Mid-City Neighborhood Organization

From Charlie London:

http://katrinafilm.com/schedule.pdf

Please consider volunteering to help with the Bayou Boogaloo.

The Bayou Boogaloo is a free festival where the profits from food and merchandise sales go to help benevolent causes in New Orleans.

Plus the Bayou Boogaloo only hires local talent. All the money stays right here in our area.

This year, the Bayou Boogaloo is raising money to restore two play areas on the Jefferson Davis Parkway neutral ground.

A volunteer application is available at the link below:

http://katrinafilm.com/volunteerapp.pdf

Please consider helping out with the Bayou Boogaloo.

You’ll be glad you did!

The Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo schedule has been announced.

Remember, the Boogaloo is on the Jefferson Davis Parkway neutral ground where Orleans Avenue meets Moss, on May 23rd (5-9 pm) and May 24th (10am-9pm).

The Boogaloo features live local and nationally renown bands with an eclectic mix of music and fun. The Boogaloo will feature an art market, children’s entertainers and activities, community info along with consumer resource booths, and canoe races. Plenty of food, drinks, and wonderful merchandise will be available for sale. Find out more at http://thebayouboogaloo.com

Free admission!

More info: 504-488-3865

There’s still time if you or your company would like to help out with the Bayou Boogaloo. Jazz Fest is this weekend and next. Then the Bayou Boogaloo will be held on May 23rd and May 24th. Check out the great businesses helping the Bayou Boogaloo…

Join them and make the Bayou Boogaloo an even bigger success this year. Profits from the Bayou Boogaloo will restore the playgrounds on Jefferson Davis Parkway in Mid City.

Come out and enjoy some neighborhood fun next Friday night! This is sent on behalf of The Bayou Boogaloo festival organizers:

The Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo Festival is a free music festival, held each Spring on the banks of Bayou St. John. In order to keep the festival FREE, a fundraiser will be held on Friday November 2nd @ 7pm, at Studio 3 ( 3610 Toulouse St behind the American Can).

The fundraiser is themed around the Mexican festival “Día de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead), and will celebrate with Mexican food and drinks, live music and a festival atmosphere. Current food donors include Juan’s Flying Burrito, and Tacqueria Guerrero. Admission is $40 per person, $75 per couple, and $300 to reserve a table for ten.

Online ticket purchase should be available in the next couple of days. For now, mark your calendars, line up your babysitters, tell your friends!

Don’t forget — the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo is this Saturday, May 26, 2007. It’s a music and arts festival, kind of like a mini-Jazz Fest without the admission charge. That’s right, it’s free! More info including schedules is at thebayouboogaloo.com

The official poster for the 2nd Annual Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo has been unveiled. Check it out.

Check out thebayouboogaloo.com and mark your calendars for May 26th!

Update: There are a limited number of Bayou Boogaloo posters left over from the festival. You can buy one direct from the artist, Jane Brewster, for $20 plus $4 shipping. The posters are 11″x17″ and each one is signed & numbered. Just use the “Buy Now” button below to purchase via PayPal.

Sorry, sold out!

Or you can see Jane at Wednesday on the Square. This week, Mid-Citizens Tommy Malone will be there with the subdudes and Jim McCormick will also be there with the legendary Bingemen.

Kimberley Marshall offers an extended meditation on what the Bayou Boogaloo means for Mid-City, and other goings-on in our neighborhood.

More pix here. If you’ve got Boogaloo pix online, feel free to add a link in the comments section.

Poster by Jane Brewster.

The festival will be held on the banks of Bayou St. John at Orleans Ave. on Saturday, May 27 from 10 am on. There is no admission. The Mid-City Art Market will also be in that location for one day only. We need volunteers! Check out the schedule of great music!

MCNO is proud to unveil the offical logo for the Bayou Boogaloo, by local artist Jane Brewster with assistance from Elena Reeves.

The festival will be held on the banks of Bayou St. John at Orleans Ave. on Saturday, May 27 from 10 am on. There is no admission. The Mid-City Art Market will also be in that location for one day only. We need volunteers!

Please note, all times are tentative and subject to change, so please take this schedule with a grain of salt!

Mid-City “Bayou Boogaloo” — May 27th, 2006

Scheduled Performers:

• 11:00 – Rudy’s Caribbean Funk Band (Caribbean)
• 12:00 – I Tell You What (Blues)
• 1:00 – Bust (Soul)
• 2:00 – Gringo du Choro (Brazilian)
• 3:00 – All Star Quartet featuring Walter Washington and James Andrews (Jazz-Blues)
• 4:00 – Lynn Drury (Folk-Rock)
• 5:00 – Big Chief Monk Boudreaux with Delta Funk (Indian Funk)
• 6:00 – The Revealers (Reggae)
• 7:00 - Billy Iuso & The Restless Natives (New Orleans)
• 8:00 – Anders Osborne (Roots/Rock)

Casa Samba (Afro-Brazilian) parades along Bayou from 12-2 pm

On Saturday, May 27th, Memorial Day Weekend, MCNO, in conjunction with the Mid-City Art Market will sponsor a festival on the banks of Bayou St. John. There will be free music at Orleans and Moss by the Can Company. There will also be food and beer and all the festival stuff.

We need sponsors to help finance the festival and volunteers to help on the day of. If you have a business and would like to be a part of the re-building of Mid-City, please let us know. If you have a few hours to volunteer on that day, we welcome your participation.