Sunday
DRUMMER
&
SMOKE:
MUSIC EVENTS AT THE PALM COURT JAZZ CAFÉ
1204 Decatur Street $10 per session or VIP Pass
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
SPRING CAN REALLY HANG YOU UP THE MOST: THE POETRY AND LYRICS OF FRAN LANDESMAN
Jazz lyricist and poet Fran Landesman published five volumes of poetry and wrote
lyrics for hundreds of songs throughout a career which began in the 50’s. She
rubbed shoulders with artists and poets from the Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac,
Lenny Bruce, and Allen Ginsberg; dropped acid with Timothy Leary; collaborated
with composers Steve Allen, Tommy Wolf, Dudley Moore, and Simon Wallace.
Come enjoy the humorous, bittersweet, and sometimes irreverent songs and spoken
poetry of this “Queen of the Bohemian Dream,” Fran Landesman, revived by the
incomparable vocalist, Raynel Shepard, accompanied by Harry Mayronne, Ben Fox,
and Michael Skinkus.
Sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
1 - 2:15 PM
The Clive Wilson/Tom Sancton Legacy Serenaders
Music makes memories and these musicians turned those memories into
memoirs. Join the Clive Wilson/Tom Sancton Legacy Serenaders as Clive
and Tom discuss their memoirs Time Of My Life and Song For My Fathers
(respectively) and present traditional New Orleans jazz as they learned it back in
the 1960s.
Sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Community
Partnership Grant
2:30 - 3:45 PM
ALEXIS AND THE SAMURAI
With an Americana sound that put them on the New Orleans music scene map, the duo of Alexis
Marceaux and Sam Craft has been consistently evolving into a genre-defying style that shows how
eclectic New Orleans music can be. On any given song, you may find Sam playing a violin with one
hand, a piano with the other, and drums with his feet, all the while Alexis plays guitar and drums--
and both of them sing. Alexis & the Samurai have been featured on HBO’s Tremé, NBC’s The Voice,
and CSI New Orleans.
Sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Community Partnership Grant
22 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS & NEW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVAL