Satchmo Summerfest 2023
The Tremé Million Dollar Baby Dolls, part of the Satchmo Summerfest second line on Sunday.
August 2023A 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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