Re: Poker in New Orleans
the festival itself at the fairgronds kind of sucked in our opinion.
big and crowded and long-lines for porta-johns, etc.
She's a big Dave Matthews Band (in spite of me informing her how mediocre they are) so we went to see them. but the speakers were bad...we were about mid-way up a sfar as the crowd goes (not in the back in other words) and everyone was leaving after 20-30 minutes because we couldn't hear them hardly at all. These are people who had gotten there over 2 hours early to get a decent seat.
Very disappointing.
However..as we were walking out we could hear Elvis Costello from his stage from over a mile away.
However, Frenchman street (just off the French Quarter) was a ton of fun.
A handful of small clubs with really good jazz.
Far more of a locals-scene than a tourist-hangout. You might dig it over there.
A couple of the clubs had live bands from 9p-6a or something insane like that.
Bourbon Street is fun too if one is in the mood for that kind of scene.
If we go back again we might skip the fairgrounds (but sometimes the artists are too good to pass up for one or the other of us...she was disappointed to learn that just a couple days earlier they had a latino-music day with some of her favorite artists...people like Juanes and Julietta Vanegas whom I had never heard of)
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