The shows start this Wednesday, 21st, and continue until Sunday, with attractions that promise pure fun
Koko Jean Davis. It is with her, a Mozambican woman who remakes with her own life the diaspora that preceded the origins of the blues in the United States, that the Via Borbone opens his big party. The 18th edition of the Bourbon Street Fest begins on Wednesday 21 and continues until Sunday 25, with a series of shows at Moema’s house and at Parque Burle Marx. At the Bourbon the evenings start at 19:00. The last show starts between 10.30pm and 11pm. First, around 2 pm, the Jazz Café, a second room with a piano bar, will have the Torres Jazz Trio, specializing in New Orleans sounds. The shows at the Parque Burle Marx will be free, on Saturday and Sunday, starting at 1pm.
New Orleans, the city honored by the festival and the very essence of the Bourbon, is considered “the land where it all began”. The jazz that was born there, at the end of the 19th century, comes from many peoples, especially French, black, indigenous, Spanish and North American. Apple TV has a documentary that summarizes the history of one of the largest music festivals in America, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Jazz Fest: a story in New Orleans worth a visit for those who want to enjoy the Bourbon festival and dive a little deeper. New Orleans, the documentary suggests, would be the only place where a legitimately American culture is born.
Koko Jean Davis will conclude on Wednesday evening, after the performances of the Orleans Street Jazz Band and the New Orleans Experience, with Marcelo Torres Septeto. Tomorrow, Thursday, will be Torres Jazz Trio, Kevin Gullage & The Blues Groovers and, eventually, the young American singer Bobbi Rae with the great Brazilian guitarist Igor Prado. Friday star will be sprawling saxophonist Donald Harrison – able to traverse the history of traditional and modern jazz in two hours – and accordionist Dwayne Dopsie and his band The Zydeco Hellraisers, a furious musical expression and a typically cultural bath. southern on stage. Home. Previously, New Orleans piano expert Luciano Leães will pay tribute to the fundamental pianist Professor Longhair, who died in 1980.
Koko will be with Igor Prado’s band, with whom he has played other shows in the countryside of São Paulo and Minas Gerais. It is a structurally different version of the Hammond trio that accompanies him in Europe, The Tonics, with guitar, Hammond organ and drums, but also with a high combustion power. He told Estadão that he brings to Brazil some songs that are on his album released with the Tonics, in 2021, after his career with the band The Excitements, also from Barcelona, blues, gospel, soul, rock and roll and New Orleans music, “she says. All of this is coupled with her presence, compared by some to Tina Turner in her early years, alongside Ike Turner.” The most important thing is to be genuine and connect with the audience. I want the people who come to the show to forget their problems. “
The story of Koko, a blueswoman who works from Europe, has an interesting and culturally aggregating path. She was born and lived in Maputo, Mozambique, until the age of 18. After discovering great blues singers through her records, she went to study in the United States, where she lived for seven years. From there she moved to Rio de Janeiro and then finally moved to Barcelona, where she still lives today. “I haven’t been able to take singing lessons, I’ve always been more instinctive, but I know the importance of respecting tradition when singing African American music. Pain, emotion and joy are released.” Edgar Radesca, owner of Bourbon Street, says having New Orleans on the radar is essential for a city like São Paulo. “Quality is cultural in New Orleans. It comes from the kids, music is everywhere.” In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit the city, Radesca was in the middle of a Bourbon Fest with New Orleans musicians. “They saw scenes of their destroyed homes on TV,” he says. “Many could not communicate with their relatives. Even so, they did the shows.” After the festival, some had to spend more time in Brazil, as there was no way back to New Orleans by direct flights. Some members of the United States Congress have considered letting New Orleans flood forever, as studies pointed to the possibility of future catastrophes. The population resisted and the musicians convinced the government that it was necessary to resist.
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