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Hack Bartholomew
These are the things you learn by walking around. Hack is a fixture outside the Cafe du Monde. His website is www.hackb.com/. If you google him, you will see how deeply ingrained the music culture is in New Orleans. He is a wonderful trumpeter and singer, but just one of so many here (or used to be here).
Hack was selling CDs. I did not buy this one. He said that a portion of the proceeds was going to rebuild his church destroyed by Katrina. Then he asked if I wanted to come to the church. I said, "no, I'm Jewish." He said, "shalom, brother." Then he showed me another CD in which he played with a Jewish guy named Bryon Gitkin. So I bought that one. And he said "mazel tov."
There is an article on the internet that says Hack is one of the few street musicians to have returned to New Orleans. The article says his house was battered, but he lives Uptown (actually very close to Tulane), and not in the 9th Ward. So while many houses here were damaged by the wind and rain, the parts of the neighborhood closest to the Mississippi River levee (away from Lake Pontchartrain and the 17th Street Canal) did not flood.
Hack Bartholomew
These are the things you learn by walking around. Hack is a fixture outside the Cafe du Monde. His website is www.hackb.com/. If you google him, you will see how deeply ingrained the music culture is in New Orleans. He is a wonderful trumpeter and singer, but just one of so many here (or used to be here).
Hack was selling CDs. I did not buy this one. He said that a portion of the proceeds was going to rebuild his church destroyed by Katrina. Then he asked if I wanted to come to the church. I said, "no, I'm Jewish." He said, "shalom, brother." Then he showed me another CD in which he played with a Jewish guy named Bryon Gitkin. So I bought that one. And he said "mazel tov."
There is an article on the internet that says Hack is one of the few street musicians to have returned to New Orleans. The article says his house was battered, but he lives Uptown (actually very close to Tulane), and not in the 9th Ward. So while many houses here were damaged by the wind and rain, the parts of the neighborhood closest to the Mississippi River levee (away from Lake Pontchartrain and the 17th Street Canal) did not flood.