Satchmo Summerfest 2023

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Written By Melanie Cole

The Tremé Million Dollar Baby Dolls, part of the Satchmo Summerfest second line on Sunday. 

August 2023

A favorite part of the annual Satchmo Summerfest is the Jazz Mass at St. Augustine Church in the Tremé, followed by a second-line parade through the Tremé and Quarter to the New Orleans Jazz Museum which hosts the festival. This year due to renovations in the church, the mass took place on August 6th to a full house in the St. Augustine Parish Hall.

The Tremé Brass Band led attendees out of mass and through the Tremé and French Quarter neighborhoods to the New Orleans Jazz Museum, which hosted Satchmo Summerfest.

- photographs by Melanie Cole

Father Quentin Moody

Father Quentin Moody

Oswald Jones leading the Treme Brass Band out of St Augustine

Kelly Lee Blackwell, Baby Doll "Bumps"

To Be Continued (TBC) band leader David McKissick

Kevin Devezin with the Gents and Kids Social Aid Club

Oswald Jones led the Treme Brass Band and participants through the Tremé and French Quarter neighborhoods.

Mahogany Blue Baby Dolls

The Sha Ka Zulu stilt dancers

 
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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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