Highland Blues Fest: Chris McCaa's band
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Highland remains Shreveport's utopian neighborhood. Here you'll find it all: swells & subsistence farmers, artist & artisan, students & professors, shut-ins & sultans, hunters & gatherers.
The diversity of the population enables it to provide the city with 2 of its most soulful events: the Krewe of Highland carnival parade and the Highland Blues & Jazz Fest.
At the blues fest Sat, Nov 18, the musicians will spiel their songs from the Pavilion Stage as well as the Gazebo Stage of Columbia Park. There will be beer & BBQ and other conjumptibles, says Amy Lowe.
By a partnership with West Edge Artists' Co-op, there will be hand-made stuff, art & books. If you were from out of town you'd swoon over the Austinacious vibe.
Here's the agenda, according to the Highland Area Partnership (HAP), a mainstay organization of the city:
General Lee - Opening, 12:00
A. J. & The Two-Tone Blues Band, 12:10
The Bluebirds, 12:25
Group Therapy, 1:10
Jazziana, 1:30
Dorothy Prime, 2:15
Howlin Henry & the Harp Tones, 2:30
Howell & Caskey, 3:15
Junior III, 3:30
Professor Porkchop, 4:15
Dan Sanchez & The Kings of Pleasure, 4:30
Dirtfoot, 5:15
Sponsors include Red River Radio; Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau; SPAR; City Printing, Inc.; Marsha O. Millican, CPA; Nelson Cameron, Attorney; Thomas G. Carmody; Brookshire’s #78; Mall St. Vincent; Querbes & Nelson; Grace Bareikis and the Anonymous Friends of HAP, says director Dorothy McDonald.
"Eclectic, bohemian, funky fun," is how McDonald sees the fest. She also offers an insight into the city's relationship to the oak-lined neighborhood: "Everybody in Shreveport has less than 2 degrees of separation from Highland."
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