Doreen Ketchens

New Orleans is a city like no other. In the French Quarter music streams down sidewalks and spills out of doorways. It strides into the air in city parks as the notes of trumpets tubas, trombones, clarinets, saxes and drums dance together. Nearby on the Mississippi, a river boat sends the sweet sounds of a calliope singing through the air and we follow the sound down to the riverside. In front of Rousseau Grocery Doreen's Jazz band has set up in the street and her phenomenal clarinet playing slides notes up and down the scale in a jazz reverie. Doreen has traveled the globe performing with her family. You can read about her here: http://doreensjazz.com/bio.htm
We are grateful for this unique corner of America which has crawled back from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to offer the world this musical gift. In the words of trumpet player Terence Blanchard who returned to help reclaim New Orleans, "Goddamn right we're coming back, 'cause we don't like y'all food and we hate y'all music. I came home, I had a fried oyster and like to cried." He has written many film scores including Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke" which is available on You Tube.