Just repeating this message. In addition to a great cause - ALL donations, drinks, food go directly to Katrina relief - this will be a great event for anyone who likes blues, really the best of the local scene.

Concert for the Gulf Coast
Presented by Kavehaz
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 4 pm - 12 am
37 West 26th Street (between Sixth Avenue and Broadway).
New York, NY 10010 212.343.0612
Suggested Donation: $20
100% of all ticket, food, and drink proceeds will go to the Red Cross

Manhattan jazz club Kavehaz (Satalla’s sister venue) presents the Concert for the Gulf Coast, a marathon concert event to support the Red Cross in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The concert, hosted by Big Ed Sullivan, will feature over two dozen blues, cajun and zydeco artists over the course of eight hours.

The first 100 donors will receive a free John Lee Hooker compilation CD donated by legendary Blues promoter Buddy Fox or a Geno Delafose CD courtesy of Yusuf Gandhi, owner of Times Square Records.

Artists already confirmed include: Kid Java's Rent Party, Bette Levette and Kevin Kiley, Popa Chubby, Bill Sims, Todd Wolfe, Buddy Cage, Jon Paris, Bill Perry, Sunny Hudson, Brian Mitchell, David Bennett Cohen, Rob Paparozzi and the Hudson River Rats, Joy Ryder, The Dave Keyes Band, Chris Carter, Big Frank and the Healers, The French Cookin' Blues Band, Ptah Brown with the Brawner Brothers, Rick Fink & His Gashouse Gorillas, Ric Frank & the Jambalaya Brass Band, Lynne Leighting & Mark Shields, Dusty Wright, The 25th Hour, Lisa Hearns, and MISbHAVIN!

SO COME ON DOWN!!!

Just to report from the front - man did I give it up for the cause! All bar tabs went straight to Katrina relief so it was my civic and humanitarian duty to donate 9 straight hours of drinking to the cause! Is my head big today!! Can't they make these keyboards a little quieter!?!?!?

Anyway, does anyone know the song Louisiana 1927 by Randy Newman? One of the bands performed it last night, when they got to the line:

Louisiana, Louisiana

They're tryin' to wash us away

They're tryin' to wash us away

- there was an unreal shiver went through the whole crowd. Here are the lyrics if anyone's interested - pretty amazing song.

Louisiana 1927
by Randy Newman

The lyics, by singer/songwriter Randy Newman, tell the story of the Louisiana flood of 1927, which killed hundreds and displaced hundreds of thousands across six states. The disaster is credited with sparking one of the great voting movements of the 20th century -- the shift in Southern black allegiance from the Republican to the Democratic Party -- and with spurring the New Deal politics of big government. Will history repeat?

What has happened down here is the winds have changed

Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain

Rained real hard and it rained for a real long time

Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day

The river rose all night

Some people got lost in the flood

Some people got away alright

The river have busted through clear down to Plaquemines

Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

Louisiana, Louisiana

They're tryin' to wash us away

They're tryin' to wash us away

Louisiana, Louisiana

They're tryin' to wash us away

They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train

With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand

The president say, ''Little fat man isn't it a shame

What the river has done to this poor crackers land."

Louisiana, Louisiana

They're tryin' to wash us away

They're tryin' to wash us away

Louisiana, Louisiana

They're tryin' to wash us away

They're tryin' to wash us away

They're tryin' to wash us away

They're tryin' to wash us away

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