Danny Barker Fest + St. Joseph’s Celebration

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Written By Melanie Cole

The Black Men of Labor and the Baby Dolls dance to the Tremé Brass Band at the Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar Festival at the New Orleans Jazz Museum, photo by Ellis Anderson 

March 2024

Folks attending the three-day Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar Festival at the Jazz Museum this year had the happy option of popping over to the adjacent French Market on Saturday for a St. Joseph’s Day Celebration.

- photos by Melanie Cole and Ellis Anderson 

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Friday’s official opening of the Danny Barker Fest with the Sons of Jazz Brass Band

Saturday, March 9, at the Danny Barker Fest

Mahmoud Chouki

A packed house for Davell Crawford

Yusa

Meanwhile, at the French Market’s St. Joseph’s Day Celebration: 

photos by Ellis Anderson unless otherwise attributed

Photo by Bethany Bultman

Back at the Danny Barker Festival:

The Black Men of Labor

The Treme Brass Band with the Black Men of Labor and the Baby Dolls

Sunday, March 10 at the Danny Barker Festival

Jimmy Bean Ballero Band, photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Ellis Anderson

Jamil Sharif, photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Ellis Anderson

Les Getrex, photo by Melanie Cole

The Dixie Cups, photo by Melanie Cole

Detroit Brooks, photo by Melanie Cole

Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, photo by Melanie Cole

Delfeayo Maralis, photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Ellis Anderson

 
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Melanie Cole

Brit by birth, Texan by persuasion, Melanie Cole was lured by the NOLA sirens in 2019. After college she accidentally found herself vagabonding around the globe in an international modeling career. By the 90s she’d ditched the runway heels for a thrift store army parka and torn jeans and began training as a graphic designer in Hamburg, Germany. She spent the following decades designing and developing print retail magazines for major publishing houses there.

Creating layouts that told stories in photos, together with her early years spent in front of a camera, honed her innate ability to capture the essence of a photographic story. She remains passionate about light, color, space, movement, people and their cultures, and visually documenting their stories.

Melanie lives with her two cats and loves to kayak LA/MS backwaters in her free time. Contact her at melanieshootsphotos@gmail.com and follow her at melnaieshootsphotos on Instagram.

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