Jazzfest Helps Lift Up the Spirit for New OrleansHarrison Chastang, KPOO FM Radiobyline‚ May. 07‚ 2007NEW ORLEANS-Is that Gavin Newsom playing piano with Branford Marsalis on the final day of Jazzfest?...naw, it's Harry Connick Jr....from where I was standing, it sure did look like Gavin. If Mayor Gavin was down here, he would run into enough San Francisco voters among the 400,000 music fans here to hold a good sized campaign rally. For the past few years the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, better known as Jazzfest, has been one of the more popular events with residents of San Francisco and it's not to hard to find someone wearing a San Francisco Giants cap, a 49er jersey or a t-shirt advertising a San Francisco club, street fair or something else that can only be found in San Francisco. Speaking of San Francisco clubs, for the past two weeks San Francisco's Boom Boom Room has been producing nightly concerts with a mix of San Francisco and New Orleans artists at the Blue Nile, a club on Frenchmen Street, a New Orleans neighborhood that could be described as a cross between Haight Street and the Castro, a low key version of Bourbon Street. |