Stanton Moore Leads Stellar Line-up at 2nd Annual Anba Dlo

The New Orleans Hope and Heritage Project and The New Orleans Healing Center are pleased to announce the artist line-up for the Second Annual Anba Dlo Festival. This year’s event, Waterline 2009, will be held on Halloween Eve, Friday, October 30, 2009, and will feature some of New Orleans’ most beloved artists, including the Stanton Moore Trio with James Singleton, 101 Runners, Coco Robichaux, Kora Konnection, Sean Johnson and Wild Lotus Band, Karmic Foundation DJs and many more!  Waterline 2009 is a 21+ costume event, featuring free drinks, a costume parade and contest, outdoor live music stage, DJs and a dance floor, Trance/Spiritual music room, fire dancers and acrobats and a Faculty Art exhibit, along with many other activities.  Admission for the event is $15.  Advance tickets are available now at www.neworleanshealingcenter.org, along with commemorative t-shirts, posters and raffle tickets. 

 

Stanton Moore, a founding member and drummer for the enormously popular funk band Galactic, will be one of the main attractions at the 2nd Annual Anba Dlo.  Moore has recorded several records with Galactic and released several highly successful solo albums, including All Kooked Out!, Flyin’ the Koop, III and Emphasis! On Parenthesis.  The Stanton Moore Trio has a revolving line-up, but for this special evening, James Singleton will be featured on bass.  Singleton is one of the most sought after bassists in New Orleans and is deeply involved with the Big Easy music scene.  Who is the third member of the Trio?  We can’t tell, but promise an evening to remember!

 

Chuck Perkins wrote his first poem in 10th grade in a New Orleans Public School and was later inspired to put his poetry to music by listening to Gil Scott Heron.  Chuck Perkins and The Voices of the Big Easy shows are captivating and intoxicating collaborations of poetry, melody, music and memory.  The Times-Picayune said, “He is a poet, first off. But also a cultural impresario, gathering various components of the New Orleans arts and culture scenes to create a vigorous and eclectic traveling road show called Voices of Big Easy.”   With these credentials, it’s easy to understand why Perkins, along with Suleyman Aydin, will co-direct of the Performance Hall/Musician’s Woodshed/ Theater in the Round at the New Orleans Healing Center. 

 

Chris Jones’ brainchild, the 101 Runners, brings modern funk and Mardi Gras Indians together. Jones is a percussionist, who started 101 after his post-Katrina return to New Orleans. Culling long-term relationships with musicians and musically-oriented members of Mardi Gras Indian Tribes, he created a blend of solid funk musicians backed by a front line of percussionists and vocalists.  There are currently 10 regular members of the band, including several drummers and both Uptown and Downtown Mardi Gras Indians.  In addition, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux of The Golden Eagles often collaborates with the band. The 101 is based in respect for New Orleans traditions and heritage, spiced with drive and exciting spontaneity.

 

Coco Robichaux is the son of Choctaw and Cajun parents. He was playing in his first band on Bourbon Street by age 15 and signed his first record contract in 1965. Robichaux joined with Orleans Records in 1994 and released his highly acclaimed record, Spiritland, in 1998.  In addition to the accolades he has received over the years for his recordings, Robichaux has also received three Big Easy Entertainment Awards nominations, including Best Blues Artist. In 2005, Robichaux created his own label, Spiritland Records, and released, Yeah U Rite!.  He has appeared at the New Orleans Jazz Festival since 1995 and has travelled  the world with his live stage performances and storytelling.

 

In addition to the Stanton Moore Trio, 101 Runners, Coco Robichaux and Chuck Perkins and The Voices of the Big Easy, Felice Mitchell Guimont will also be performing on the Live Music Stage.  The 2nd Annual Anba Dlo will also feature the Karmic Foundation DJs and music on the Sacred Music Stage, with performances by Michael Skinkus and Moyuba, Sean Johnson and Wild Lotus Band and Kora Konnection.

 

Along with the live music and costume party, Anba Dlo will also feature a costume parade and the Faculty Collective Art exhibit.  The parade, starts at 6:30 pm at Markey Park.  Everyone is invited to join the parade, led by The Radical Faeries, as it makes its way through the festive streets of New Orleans to the New Orleans Healing Center.  Make sure you dress for the party (water-themed costumes such as mermaids and other ocean creatures are suggested) and prepare to celebrate Halloween “Nawlins” style!

 

The Faculty Collective Art exhibition, featuring the work of 50 local university art faculty members, celebrates the remarkable art teaching faculties at the universities and colleges of New Orleans. The unfolding efflorescence of art in the city, especially over the last decade, is the glorious result of the vision, intelligence and teaching skills of these creative and committed artists. The New Orleans Healing Center is honored to bring together, for the first time, an exhibition of the work of all the city’s art faculties. The show opens on Halloween Eve, as part of the Anba Dlo Festival.  The Faculty Collective Art exhibition will officially open on October 30 runs through December 12.

 

Imagine this:  You have been wrongfully accused of murder, now you must endure the horrors of the New Orleans Parish Prison in the first-ever "Jail House of Horrors," an interactive Halloween horror house. Produced by Big Easy Award-nominated actor and director Frederick Mead, in conjunction with event planner Clay Thomas, "Jail House of Horrors" is scary fun for the whole family.  The “Jail House of Horrors” is open every weekend in October and Wednesday through Thursday nights Halloween week.  A portion of all ticket sales benefits the New Orleans Healing Center, New Orleans Radical Faeries and New Orleans Police Foundation

 

The 2nd Annual Anba Dlo Festival is sponsored by La Source Ancienne Ounfo, Inc. and The New Orleans Hope and Heritage Project, a 501(c) 3 organization. The New Orleans Hope and Heritage Project is dedicated to supporting the efforts to rebuild and transform the city of New Orleans, with an emphasis on environmentally aware, socially conscious urban planning while staying true to the unique heritage and culture of New Orleans. Housed in the Universal Furniture Building, the Healing Center is a multi-use space that will provide community-oriented services, products, and programs including an organic grocery store, sustainable food garden, internet café and juice bar, alternative healing offices, street university, retail bazaar, art therapy and galleries, performance space, child care, Woman’s Infants and Children program, environmental office, woman’s center and spiritual space. The New Orleans Healing Center is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2010. 

 

The 2nd Annual Anba Dlo is presented by the New Orleans Hope and Heritage Project and is a collaboration of the Departments of The New Orleans Healing Center, including Wild Lotus Yoga, The New Orleans Food Coop, Nola Solar, The Arts and Crafts Bazaar, The Retail Boutiques, The Performance Hall/Community Space/Theater in the Round, The Healing Arts Center, The Full Circle Women’s Collective, the Street University, The 5th District Police Precinct, health food restaurant, hydroponic garden, Spiritual Center, childcare, together with the local Radical Faeries, the 50 artists of The Faculty Collective Art Exhibit,100 local musicians, acrobats, dancers, 100 volunteers, local chefs, local crafts persons, local business people, filmmakers, writers, and La Source Ancienne Ounfo, Inc, a 501(c)3 public charity.  The 2nd Annual Anba Dlo is sponsored by SPUNtv, The Karmic Foundation, The New Orleans Musicians Clinic, Laredo Printers, Abita Beer, Glazer’s Family of Companies, The French Market Foundation, Marlin N. Gusman, and the Criminal Sheriff’s Office.

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