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By Craig on August 28, 2011
We were quite impressed with this venue. It was a movie theater that’s been turned into 2 music rooms & it was a fun room to play in. It was fabulous to see so many people there & the people representing 504 was substantial. I saw a couple whose kid went to preschool with one [...]
Posted in First Time Played, Reviews, Setlists | Tagged 504, florida, Hurricane Party, Katrina, New Orleans, Orlando, Skokian, St. Bernard Parish, The Plaza Live |
By Craig on August 26, 2011
It’s always nice to get to south Florida. So many friends & fans down there. Kinda like a family reunion. The Bamboo Room was one of the first places the band played @ when we started touring in the early 2000′s. It was a concern a few days ago if hurricane Irene would threaten south Florida. Now [...]
Posted in First Time Played, Reviews, Setlists | Tagged Bamboo Room, florida, hurrican, Irene, Katrina, Lake Worth, New Orleans |
By fUNKYbret on August 25, 2011
From 8/25-8/31 get the ‘Dear New Orleans’ benefit album for only $6 in observance of the 6th anniversary of Katrina: http://www.dearno.la. Bonerama is honored to lend our voice in support of Dear New Orleans, an easy and effective way to support NOLA & the Gulf on the 6th anniversary. Proceeds from the compilation benefit Gulf [...]
Posted in Audio, FMC, NOLA, News | Tagged Dear New Orleans, Gulf Restoration Network, Katrina, Sweet Home New Orleans |
By Craig on April 11, 2011
When the flood waters of Katrina struck our city, we wondered what are we going to do and how are we going to do it? The shock we were in was almost to much to decide the answers to these questions. They weren’t easy to figure out. The way we figured it out was with [...]
Posted in Guests, Jammin' For Japan, Photos, Reviews, Setlists | Tagged George Porter, Jammin' For Japan, Jeremy Davenport, John Gros, Katrina, Kermit Ruffins, New Orleans Japan Quake Fund, Papa Grows Funk, Red Cross, Rock N Bowl, Seizo Shibayama, WWOZ, Yoshio Toyama |
By Craig on February 16, 2011
This Thursday is our only show in Feb. and its a special one. It’s the 7th in a series of shows that have been put on by two national activist organizations: Air Traffic Control and The Future of Music Coalition. They are hands-on in getting musicians involved in using their art to bring awareness to [...]
Posted in Guests, News, Press, Promotion | Tagged Air Traffic Control, Blue Nile, Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes, Cody ChesnuTT, Dead Prez, Dear Nola, DeVotchKa, DJ Spooky, Future Of Music Coalition, Gulf Restoration Network, Helen Bruner, Jenny Toomy, John Boutte, Katrina, Kristin Thompson, Living Colour, M1, Mirah, NPR, Paul Sanchez, Pete Seeger, Rogue Wave, Sage Francis, Shawn King, Sweet Home New Orleans, Terry Jones, Tom Morello, Tsunami, Vernon Reid, Zach Rogue |
By Craig on February 7, 2011
Our good friend Paul Sanchez just completed an epic recording called Nine Lives. It’s based off of a book by Dan Baum which follows Nine peoples lives in New Orleans from Hurricane Betsy (1965) through the flooding of Hurricane Katrina. It’s quite a book. Paul and his writing partner, Coleman DeKay who lives in L.A., [...]
Posted in News, Nine Lives | Tagged Dan Baum, Hurricane Betsy, Katrina, Mystery Street Records, New Orleans, Paul Sanchez, Pepsi, Threadhead Records |
By Craig on November 11, 2010
We flew home on Monday because Treme, the HBO TV series was filming us on Tuesday. Showed up at Tips French Quarter for 7:30 am and did the Hollywood thing. Treme has been very accurate on how they portray N.O. post Katrina so we had Matt and Eric in the scene with us because it [...]
Posted in News, Photos, Treme | Tagged 2006, Anoine Batiste, Eric Bolivar, French Quarter, HBO, Katrina, Matt Perrine, Tipitina's, Treme |
By fUNKYbret on August 19, 2010
To mark the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina — and in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster also deeply affecting the region — Air Traffic Control (a nonprofit resource for activist and philanthropic musicians) has produced Dear New Orleans, a digital music benefit compilation for the people of the Gulf. Dear New Orleans will be [...]
Posted in News, Promotion | Tagged Air Traffic Control, Amazon, Blackbirds, Body, Dave Herlihy, Dear New Orleans, eMusic, Erin McKeown, Future Of Music Coalition, Gulf, Gulf Restoration Network, iTunes, Katrina, Kick Out The Jams, Led Zeppelin, Louisiana, Martin Perna, Mike Mills, Mr. Go, Neil Young, New Orleans, Nicole Atkins, Ohio, Rhapsody, Sweet Home New Orleans, Thao Nguyen, Wayne Kramer, When The Levee Breaks |
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