Party at Anne and Richard's

I went to a party on May 4 hosted by my friends Anne Abler and Richard Woodworth. Every year at Jazzfest they rent the same apartment on Bourbon Street - a place big enough for a pretty nice gathering. This year they hired a three-piece band with Tim Laughlin on clarinet, Amy Sharpe on banjo and Al Bernard on string bass. Richard is a reed player, and he sat in on some of the numbers. Anne played washboard for one piece. Some other partygoers brought instruments and played in a few numbers, and some others sang.

Here is Richard with his soprano sax, with Second Line Eddie dancing.





From left to right are Jenni Johnson (a singer), Jose Garcia and Richard Eager. Jenni has a web site at jennijohnson.net.





Going around the circle are Richard on soprano sax, Helen from the New Orleans Jazz Society, Al Bernard on string bass, Amy Sharpe on banjo, Tim Laughlin on clarinet and Jose Garcia.



From left to right: Tim Laughlin, Jenni Johnson, Thais Clark (a singer who performs at Jazzfest every year) and Richard Eager.







The trumpet player is Jean-Marie. He leads a band in Paris called Fidgety Feet.





Here is Anne on washboard.