Jazz Fest Exhaustion and it is only day one!
Okay, I’m the Energizer Bunny and could usually see more music at one day of Jazz Fest than the average bear but I must admit that Jazz Fest with a toddler changes everything.
We hurried over to see the Brass Band Throwdown at the Kid’s Tent and that was just a warm up because then we went over to Congo Square and set up base camp which consisted of two chairs, a blanket, a tethered umbrella, cold drinks, a hot potato, a toy trumpet, two drumsticks, books, and god knows whatever else I managed to bring. We saw the Bahamas Experience featuring Raphael Funky Nassau Munnings and the Baha Men and that was before Donald Harrison took the stage and really jammed with the most colorful and funky get down Mardi Gras Indians I’ve ever seen.
Tin played the trumpet, the trombone, the drums and anything else he could get his hands on but he wouldn’t eat his yogurt and couscous, he wouldn’t eat crawfish bread, he wouldn’t eat anything until the end of the day when he devoured smothered white beans and rice. And then wearily, we made our way home stopping ever so briefly at Swirl to say hi to the girls:
If tomorrow is day two, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.