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You ask ten people what Creole means.

You get ten different answers.

Mostly you hear about the food and what I call Creoles or New Orleans.

People who aren't white or black either.

We're a mix of French, Spanish, African and American Indian.

And that mixture made this city what it is.

Now, when you hear and speak.

You only hear three.

This is me, Don Bapu and your.

You see, it might come a second time.

This wedding is one of my first gigs in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

Pieces everything on this flooded out street.

This is the only house that's been fixed up.

We might be going back.

And right now.

Things I thought would always be here aren't here anymore.

Neighborhoods where jazz was born and I was raised are wrecked.

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

The traditions that define who I am as a Creole, a New Orleanian, a musician are barely hanging on all that I.

If my culture's been washed away from me, can I still call New Orleans home?

Where you are.

Where are you from?

I don't think New Orleans can be sold down river.

There's too much strangling culture.

It apparently can't be washed down the river.

Yeah, it.

But I just feel like this.

People are pretty resilient here.

But, you know, the culture.

And so to portray a moment is like it's a test.

Especially since the civil war, since the predations of slavery.

I mean, this is like a serious moment that my first time in Germany, because I hired the band producers themselves as I have to ask you, are you black or white?

yeah.

I could be that I was old enough then to have experienced I wasn't white enough.

Wasn't black enough right in the middle kind of thing.

So this is often more like this kind of stuff.

Yeah.

I've met people that say, well, man, you got no right to speak about that because you're not one of us.

Know?

Right.

And I'm, you know, and I'm so much one of everybody.

Right?

I've met cousins that are blond haired, blue eyed cousins at a very dark, like, real.

I mean, clearly, when you define it in terms of the African, French, Spanish Catholic and the mingling of cultures and people, you know, you end up in a place like this and you say, these are Creole folks, and everybody knows that.

You know what you mean.

But Creole is really as much more about culture than about color.

We have this mixing and making want to be able to make a shared culture, whether it's jazz or cuisine or the architecture.

We're always doing that when you have a of that instead of thinking about saving room now.

So, so yeah.

Oh yeah.

Right, right.

All right, so I see I have a good day.

I'm an expert.

So this is American Roots.

You know I've always thought of this shows as having a Creole point of view.

And AP is the Creole banjo man here from New Orleans who's brought back an instrument, the banjo that really isn't heard as much in jazz these days.

Welcome to American roots down back Alabama, Alabama.

And I'm passionate.

This is my old neighborhood.

The levee breach put six feet of water in my mom's house.

Well, we're here.

We found out the other day that three of our neighbors drowned here.

Joe was like the neighborhood dad.

You know, he was like everybody's uncle.

He drowned in the water, came up in the middle of the night.

I remember Joe telling me one time because he used to always say, you know, man, I'm so proud of you.

You travel.

I don't know, it's completely messed up.

It's just completely messed.

My mom evacuated.

I wasn't going to see this.

This is more than I can deal with right now.

What you do, you press this button.

Mom's staying with Millie in me.

Hello, Millie.

Oh, yeah.

Goodbye, Millie.

Did you get it figured out?

Yes.

I finally figured out how to hold it down and talk to.

So many had it worse than us.

Half my band lost their homes.

Even folks who came out all right have stories to tell.

Wish.

I wish you are just going down the street.

And we.

You go all the way across by using John.

We saw people who are up to their neck with garbage bags, their belongings and water was coming up by the Superdome.

We thought, okay, it would be okay in a day or two once the pumps stop.

But we're going to go down.

Yeah, but the pumps never started rolling and with the helicopters flying around.

Did y'all have trouble getting them to stop here?

How did we.

Yes, indeed.

I was out on the roof.

Where the sign that say help!

Trying to flag them down is about 200 people left here.

Happy?

The guy say, you know, go down and find somebody white.

Somebody looked like white.

I say to John, you go see why I did this.

Oh, and well, is that true?

Yes it is.

And he come running back, you say get the thing.

National guard handed down the street.

Up people, or it's you scared?

I think they were more afraid to be there.

I think if somebody has a boot.

They were taken out a few hundred people, you know, just like a third world country under siege.

What side do you like to be on?

A lot of musicians say they're not coming back.

Not enough work.

Too many uncertainties.

I've got to go.

Am I crazy to stay?

So what's the difference between a banjo and who's heels?

The Uzi only repeats 40 times.

They both love but lose it can.

These people have minor fantasy seven.

You know.

Yeah.

Before Katrina, I had it figured out.

I was making a living bringing back the Creole jazz my ancestors helped create.

Now, I don't know.

What you can get at jazz.

Creole.

That, Danny Barker's on.

Oh, okay.

so, And, Exactly.

That is like the the, I think for most musicians who want to try to find out what the Creole jazz connection is, right?

That's the album.

Young Creole is like, little more.

They're embracing the American blues culture.

It's coming down the Mississippi River.

That's really what jazz comes into the story.

That Creole sound like them, was flowing in of it.

People want to dance to that.

Something's wrong with it, this content of that stuff.

I mean, even singing this song.

So you're into, you know, do all three of them?

Yeah.

The subject matter.

It's amusing.

A little racy, but what was.

What would be the English translation?

woman on the bed.

Man under the bed.

don't like that.

but, you know, I got some I think you might be interested in.

We have an oral history interview with Papa John Joseph, my great uncle.

That's it.

That's your family background?

Professional musicians have been part of my family for over a century.

I have relatives who backed up Elvis, toured with Paul McCartney.

One cousin plays recorded with everybody from Sinatra to Marvin Gaye.

Then there's random.

He was Ray Charles first bandleader, co-wrote I Got a Woman.

He's down from New York.

You saw this stuff on TV, I would imagine.

Oh, yeah, stuff on TV.

They were telling me about how I knew I wanted to destroy.

This is the end of New Orleans and all of that.

I see, I know those Creoles.

Are they going to rebuild?

They'll be right back in it.

When y'all was growing up, you consider yourselves Creole?

We were.

We were not referred to as Creoles.

We were as colored people.

This era in one man.

This band.

And he.

Man.

But, front had to be a force in the war.

Came in, then just blew all that out.

You know, as we call it, when you can see the radio or something.

Just up there like that is just kind of depressing.

That kind is very, very depressing when I go.

Yeah.

When you start asking the question.

It reminds me, what of those ghost towns in the West, the movie?

You know, you don't see anyone.

Nobody's there.

Where are we going next?

Well, I want to show you where my mother left me.

Yes.

The house.

The house right here.

Are we getting out?

I don't want to get sick.

This is heartbreaking.

You know?

Heartbreaking.

Well, bad luck through the window.

And she said that, the van is still together.

I couldn't even open a door, so break it open.

Had, like, my gold chain and my medallion.

So you heard from us?

The older she.

All right?

she had to be rescued, you know.

Really?

You know, when the wall came in on that 17 canal, it was after the Katrina, and she was looking at TV, and the water was on the floor, and she had to go upstairs, and the helicopter had to rescue them.

We were in the 10% overhead.

Didn't get damaged, which is lucky because we got a place for you to stay.

Oh, yeah.

We made the best of it down.

Thank God for the life, right?

You already lost everything.

So what?

Musicians travel since Katrina.

I need to even more.

One week club in Denmark.

The next the festival in Oregon.

Today it's New York City teaching a master class with my old New Orleans bandmate.

Oh, God.

You know.

When we ended the dance, we always played the New Orleans jazz tune.

And this was it, you know?

You know, even though it's like the end of the portal, it was the time it was.

We had to every move, you know, that that was a sign that the lights were about to come on.

The party was over.

Hey, you okay?

So, you know, this is at the time.

This is very relaxed.

This is very expressive.

Do it individually.

There's a lot about because now I. I have to pay and I have and I want that.

But it was the three of us.

Yeah.

Saxophone plays keyboards.

You play guitar bass, keyboard wherever else we play.

And this was a funky game was going to find it.

It will play a celebration ball.

And how the Rock, yes, indeed.

Oh well, the the day.

Oh, man.

You know, I think of moving.

I mean, I went home, you know, I just I'm still not absolutely sure.

I mean, being able to go do my, my own self, you know.

Yeah.

I don't well, you truly fall under the umbrella of many of those musicians who, Hey, great opportunities in other places and promise of, financial gain, but they just should never leave Crescent City, you know, which is good for New Orleans, because otherwise it will fall to the wayside, or it will be overtaken by people who don't understand.

And I don't feel like starting over, but it almost feels like I'm almost starting over at home, you know?

Yeah, yeah.

If you were me, what would you do?

That is a loaded question, but what would you do?

Playing music is what you do.

Yeah.

You know, figure out how to further the history of the band with what you do.

The reality is, is that New Orleans music is not expected to be played with.

Louis Armstrong played anymore.

What is will never be rebuilt after he took an environment that was not the most positive place for him to be at that time, but then he made something that was historical and no one else can ever take away from them.

And I think that's what other people from the city can do.

They can take this time in now, which is not a great time.

No.

And we can use it to make something as great.

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This big old place that.

I can't fix the whole city, but I need to do something.

And, Don has got something special for all of us who are music fans out there.

we're gonna have a red party.

That's right.

We thought, you know, a red party would be perfect.

Yeah.

So many musicians we've talked to, they want to come home so bad, and the gigs need to be here for them to know that there's.

You can come back for a place to live, you know.

All right.

1143 on the Crescent City and you're listening to w w o Z is coming to town over the weekend.

I know you said you couldn't make it, but it'll show the community that you have to create things.

You have to do something to get all these musicians back.

Because we we're an important part of what new Orleans is, right?

Right.

Leroy Jones plays with Harry Connick Jr. Leroy staying at a friend's place in the French Quarter.

I'd like him to play at the rampart, but.

Yeah.

Hey, I'm pushing it for.

I try to do too much at once, so at least say it.

Yeah, yeah.

This is one of the parade camps that we were able to sell this.

You know, they had a lot of mold on the structures and Gentilly.

Yeah.

2017 Jasmine Street had about three feet of water in it.

You know enough to us.

The bikes know the water.

My mom.

Excuse me.

Look, I want to talk to you about this.

Really tough.

I mean, it's this is a situation, and nobody really understands what's happening here except the people backing, living here, trying to try and get it.

Yeah.

I mean, you really think you you got.

Stay calm.

Is there any doubt that you might leave or have to leave?

you know, not sounding like a hog, but, I mean, I'm not leaving all this.

if the other musicians decide that they're not going to come back within this more work for me, the other issues, because we were talking about what makes New Orleans what it is, and Creole culture came up, you know, said mix.

I think because geographic where we are and historically where we are in laws because of the slave trade, because of the intermingling of different cultures and races here it happened in this part of the United States.

How do you feel?

You feel like you Creole from here?

Well, I wouldn't consider myself Creole.

for one thing, I think my nose is a bit too wide, my skin is a little bit too dark, and my head's a little bit too curly.

I'm here.

Know?

Well, Lillian Booty's back in town.

If I can get Leroy and Lillian to play the red party, that would be a good start.

You know, I'm mad because everybody's okay.

Everybody is going up in the family reunions, social parties, club parties, balls and things here play form and going for you.

And it was always people that I don't know.

I never thought of them as being white or looking white or looking black or whatever, but I just thought of them as New Orleans being, I guess Creole.

I never use that word.

I guess that term is the gumbo that we make, because in a room, you know, normally when you make a dog gravy, they say that that's how you make a rule.

But that's not true because we have a white rule, we have a saw the next light rule we have.

So the next one kind of like lighter, like dog like us, you know.

And then we got the brown and then that really dog.

So we have five stages of rule that we actually cook with.

So for, for me Creole was way more than the French and the, and the Spanish and the, the Haitians and the Africans and the Acadians.

You know, really, because they're part of us, too.

What's the deal with separation?

Our friends couldn't understand.

Is it really black?

Yeah, we black.

We definitely black males.

You know, we have such a mixture.

We we with United Nations in one person walking.

And you see.

One person about a family.

About one person from the whole.

It sounds.

Like to you all know why I want.

My girl is in the seventh war.

A Creole part of town.

It got hit pretty hard.

Hey, Mark.

Mark, hey, hey, is, seven man made that?

Oh, yeah.

Man could see.

All right, man, you just.

You all right, man?

This is going to be a famous.

You.

Oh, sweet home for a minute.

Like living in a boat.

Yeah.

This is your bedroom.

Yeah.

This is the master bed.

You know, the dining area, I think.

I mean, area, the, kitchen.

This is a bunk bed for kids.

You know, I expected to come right back home.

a few days later.

I was just going back.

We come back home.

This area never floods, so did you lose, I guess everything.

What did you think?

What did you do?

Well, I, my wife sort of got me prepared.

She called me.

She said our house was just destroyed.

So when I walked in here and saw what she described, it really did soften the blow a little bit.

But I was like, man, oh, everything is destroyed.

I was I was going through everything.

I can't take that, can't take that and leave everything.

Okay.

We have a rent party Monday after Easter, so why don't you come up and play with us?

yeah, I'd love to.

Yeah, it would be great.

You know, traditionally a red party.

It was only in the community where you couldn't pay your rent.

You cook some food, got somebody come play some music, shows you a little admission, help you make your light.

Bill.

You rent.

Well, we have us a little red party for New Orleans, for New Orleans musicians.

We want them to know that there's work and they can come home.

At least start looking for a place to come on.

Because when the music come back, you just everybody's going to come back.

And you're smiling when you smiling.

The whole world is smiling.

When are you laughing?

Yeah.

With you laughing.

The moonshine.

You know.

I'd like to acknowledge my lovely wife, Millie.

Baby, we've had so many volunteers.

And the only all noise.

When you it if it my way.

Take the highway.

That's the best way to get your kids up.

66 and one.

Now it was used from Chicago to L.A. to more than 2000 miles all the way to get your kids.

You 66.

This is the heritage.

This is the culture.

And we will not make it because the music was born, right?

I was made for a king.

My platinum Mercedes Benz, GCB, baby.

And I give it to you.

Hey.

Yes, but you know that love makes me treat you the way that I do it better.

0GG baby, you know I'm good to you.

Don't hurt yourself.

I know that.

Yeah.

Now there's nothing in it who do good work, girl, that's so true G. Baby, I'm getting right in this funny key.

Just for you.

There's certain things that make an individual who they are.

And playing music for me is what makes me who I am.

And all the musicians who work, we work together.

It's all one.

It's all what makes a person inside.

They.

I'm the 11 and I'm oh my summer.

And outside and up the.

In the mountains.

Oh my summer.

All that good.

Out that and then they go home.

My Monday drop as my love Lord.

Show one more day.

Go put your voice on.

It will make all my love.

Whatever, whatever day will come I got to show and love got it I got it I'm thirsty for my summer.

All the musicians in mind.

Come on up, everybody.

It's your best defense, girl.

Yes, it can get up.

They don't mess.

If can get up, bring it home.

Boom boom boom.

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At times it's possible to think New Orleans can be like it used to be.

But we know it never will.

How do we save the things that are most important?

How do we even figure out what they are?

Most.

If.

Mom decided she needs her own space.

I told her her house is not an option.

Hey, mom.

I got to check.

Oh, good.

Damn.

So that right there.

Oh, this is good.

All right.

Very comfortable.

Good.

Good spot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, this is your place now.

Yeah, I think it's very nice.

The people are nice.

Okay.

And we get food every day.

Catholic charity bring us food.

When I was cooking at home, you said my food wasn't season, but you said it's okay.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, okay.

I was doing it real wrong with it.

You have to do the cooking for a Catholic charity.

Yeah.

Good.

Yeah, but my beans won, all right?

Yeah, but, the Red cross don't season.

They just dump the food out.

They can eat it.

okay, maybe I can get a job with the Red cross right?

Oh, well, you do better.

I do go with the red.

Yeah, I think you do them.

you do season the season more than that.

Yeah.

That's right.

I'm not at the bottom.

No, you're not at the bottom.

You're not at the top either.

Okay.

But do I have the Creole touch you need?

I got mama, I don't have you on that.

No, you didn't have it on that.

Well, it's elbow damn.

And at least you can survive on it, you know.

Yeah, that means a lot.

But you couldn't survive on mine.

That's what I say.

Oh, mercy.

Yeah.

Oh, well, I'm not going to say that.

I merely, you know, I'm.

Just moving my mom into an apartment out of a house she lived in for 45 years or so.

You know, they worked so hard.

You know, they didn't finish school enough.

You know, they they bought a house, and they did a lot for me.

I really did.

I should be a good parent.

Hello, Joy.

He has a you got everything, I have two grandsons.

Hey, if I move, how often would I see them?

Oh.

All right.

The last song.

All right.

Okay.

Looks like baby things.

You've got the cutest little baby thing you sing that everybody's been going nuts because they look at you and say, oh, look, he's got such a cute baby face.

Okay, we'll try that for my poor heart is jumping.

You sure?

Yes, but it's something that.

No.

You sure?

Yes.

dance.

So you see, a difference was a one, two, three baby things.

But you got the cutest little baby thing I'm up in.

Never when you're in your face.

When you're in.

When I was saying your.

I'm saying I'm you saying, I'm saying you I'm messing up.

General.

Put your hands.

Yeah.

My hands are just.

Baby face you.

And that is little baby.

If I say Creole heritage to Jordan, he'd probably think I'm talking about a video game.

But when the day comes that he wants to know about it, how much will be left?

Yeah.

Scott Joplin supposedly brought to the United States, to the world, to jazz.

The syncopated rhythms from his ragtime that that that started out of that about it.

I guess what we have a song called me banjo, which came from the 1830s here in New Orleans.

And it goes that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that same kind of that is syncopated rhythm that when it's jazz.

And we had it before Scott Joplin, who showed his face about 40 years before that.

Some of the Creole songs are three and almost 400 years old, cultures not permanent.

A couple of generations ago, most creoles spoke their own dialect of French.

The mother country.

That's almost gone now.

But I'll never forget that day at the church.

And I started singing some of those Creole tunes that I learned just from the records.

And and I'm singing these tunes, and you got me.

What were they that is Sonny Durham.

Sonny.

Don't move.

I said no while grown a lot out of.

That that's what those two was it.

That's one thing I will not translate.

Okay, here we go.

Let's go.

Oh my God.

So my new CD, that's.

Just up the Mississippi.

I have cousins who never moved to New Orleans.

Even here, music is part of every conversation.

Duke Ellington's bass player will Brule.

You will see that all go down.

Two to him.

Sydney.

Amen.

Keepers of the family.

History is easy to get confused here, you see, because that Breaux brothers married.

I played in the French court.

Yeah, yeah, I played, I played with Smiley Louis.

You remember him?

Yeah, well, I played he played guitar and I played.

Homer was Barber by day, a rhythm and blues piano, man by night.

But I had bad teeth with me.

Bad teeth were playing jazz.

You want to play jazz?

I said bad.

Let me call an admiral or somebody get killed on your head.

Nostalgia.

The cousin who speaks his mind.

This is my great grandfather.

He, married a white French lady.

So when you really look at it, I'm not really true black.

And you're a legend.

You know, everybody talks about.

You know what you hear?

There's dancing with what's.

And in France, you're saying be muddy.

Oh, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.

From when I was growing up.

They didn't mix at all.

Yeah, it was the Creoles on one side, the whites on one side, and then the blacks on the other side is on the drive home.

There's a plantation built during the glory days of the area in.

E this is the gentleman caller.

Oh.

Well, the men hang out in beautiful.

This was the smoking room, the drinking room and the gambling room.

There were many plantations lost in this room, and some of my ancestors could have been slaves at places like this.

But then some of my ancestors could have owned places like this, you know, see some of the carvings and statues and all.

I mean, the I mean, they were blacks in the house too, right?

Oh, yes.

It were, so, you know, blacks like servants.

it wasn't evident that they were free people of color here in Louisiana.

That became very wealthy.

And they owned plantations and they on their own slave any of the blacks, it came into the house where they free people of color as opposed to being a slave or.

Oh, you mean like a guest being involved with a guest?

That was mid 1800s.

They had money to had land and probably owned slaves.

So I guess the division was just.

I don't know how to answer that.

I really don't.

Yes.

Oh.

okay.

It's probably one of the most historic places in America.

This part of the city.

See the tracks here?

This is.

This is very close to where Homer Plessy was arrested.

I've heard the name, but, you know, I'm not familiar with the story.

I mean, well, what did he do?

Well, he was a young, shoemaker, 29 years old.

He was a Creole.

his, great grandmother had had a slave, but pretty much everyone else in his lineage was white.

He bought a first class ticket, and he gets on and he calls the conductor over and says, you may not realize it, but I'm an African American and I'm exercising my constitutional rights, whenever I want.

And then, of course, the conductor responds, well, no, we have a separate law.

Let me see.

Yeah.

And you've got to get to the to the a black car because he said, well, no, I'm not going to it very much like Rosa Parks in 1955.

She refuses to give up her seat.

And of course, the rest is history.

Well, I'm you to do the same thing back in 1892.

I don't know if I have the nerve to do what he did.

And there's Judge Ferguson looking out across the courtroom to this man who looks white, and he's sentencing him to a $25 fine and 20 days in jail for being black.

For being black.

So this whole thing ended up going to the Supreme United States Supreme Court denied his appeal, but most importantly, they issued the Plessy versus Ferguson separate but equal doctrine, which will soon be extended beyond railway cars to that to cradle to grave segregation.

Plessy versus Ferguson created this whole separate but equal.

Yeah, but later in the Black Power years, a hero with a light skin like that one would not being particularly fashionable.

You know, I remember my dad telling me about the screens on the streetcar.

He he sat in a behind the screen, and then the guy in front says, you don't have to sit back here because he thought my dad was white.

My dad says, you know, you made the room.

When I'm touring on the road and cities are still functioning, I've got to admit, life might be easier somewhere else to do.

D doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de dude.

It, de did did.

Some of that.

you girls have to be Afro-Latin.

Yeah I got, I still got picture.

You went to school before me, so I always knew about you.

Was famous, you know, and I bet you like a pioneer.

Right.

Well, one have survive in this environment, you know, be black and be it to the south.

Man we never compete out of gas was talked to me doing today wouldn't talk to me.

Don't walk.

But didn't walk at home I like oh saying go on a white school.

that's what I'm saying.

We all.

Yeah.

You dealt with me.

And what you think I went through with the banjo?

Oh.

It was.

Hey, what's even with, And you mean so that's.

Yes, bro.

That's got a plantation connotation.

It's a wonderful.

It is a great instrument.

You know, when you when you hear thing.

Oh, black.

You like this last thing I was on is, are you from New Orleans or are you black from, I mean, you know, would you told you be treated the 70?

Oh, man, I know you didn't betray the 1970s.

I said I'm from New Orleans, man.

I'm everything.

That's kind of what Creole is to me when I say know we we all like I call we call the white labels black or white.

Culturally we're Creole.

Yeah.

You know, we have Creole bass.

You know, I mean, out here, we got Creoles, we got.

But I mean, at this point, man, move forward, up.

not just for this go up.

A lot of people won't be able to come back.

Just by the nature of this circumstance.

You know, a lot of people are going to be so disgusted, they will just won't come back.

They lost is going to leave such a bad taste in their mouth.

But Egypt, Egypt, all those people is going to be a time they go somewhere they will get a breeze or something.

They will smell a po'boys them.

Damn, you know they will think something about the New Orleans accent.

If people talk with whatever makes us be where we are now.

Oh damn, I miss home and still trying to get home.

I a lot of people just home.

It's like your mom home.

It will go wherever you situation is with Obama.

You still your mama or what?

Your mom.

She refused to live anywhere else.

That is, a man you know, people like being where they from, especially from North.

Oh, man, oh man.

All the.

It's hard to know.

It's not there for you.

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I wanted to ask you something about that.

that Don Valley guy.

How did you meet him?

You know, it's interesting.

my wife and I were doing a movie.

Like a movie movie with actress and with the Academy Award winner, Tatum O'Neal, Tim Curry.

So that's a big time for you?

Well, it was bigger than us documentaries.

Okay, so we're doing the movie shooting at Lafourche Parish.

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Movie zero.

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Okay.

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So did it start out as just a music program or a family reunion?

What?

It started out because I know.

Then suddenly here came Katrina.

Katrina.

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And and then Katrina happened.

Yeah.

And then there was the pool.

Does Don stay or does he move because he he could have gone anywhere.

He could have played with anybody.

He was you know, he he was that good.

That's right.

You know.

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You're somewhere else.

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That's, My name is Don from New Orleans.

Thank you.

Where are you from?

I'm from Bangladesh.

All right.

Bangladesh, let me ask you, man.

you know that typhoon you guys in 1988 is was how long did it take to rebuild all that damage pumping?

Is it still down?

Is there not?

Wow, that's.

Wow.

You know, whenever I'm in New York, I try to visit my cousin Rachel.

We were in Bangor, Maine when the storm hit, so we went back.

System near date, you know.

But I still think about it.

I mean, now, you know, where I could buy something up there.

I mean, I'm close to three airports because really, I could just focus on traveling and make a living and be kind of traveling with the kind of town.

Wow.

And then, I don't know, you'll get that New Orleans steamer you somewhere along the line.

You miss New Orleans, you know?

Yeah.

No, but I mean.

I could go visit, and I got to see, Yeah.

You know, but I'm wondering if me being there is going to make a difference.

Not a bad New Orleans.

Why did you leave?

Yeah, well, I tell you what.

I don't talk about this too much.

You know, you always looking for that utopia.

You know, that's true.

Yeah, I know a lot of them.

Stay home.

You ask, ten people with Creole means get ten different answers and all of them correct, but none of them enough.

If my culture was washed away, can I still call New Orleans home?

I just don't know.

Things we loved and took for granted or gone.

Things we hated but put up with or gone to.

Now what can we do besides improvise?

Oh, yeah, I.

Okay, okay.

All I've ever wanted was to be judged on merit for my work, you know?

Tell me about how I look.

You know, I'm from New Orleans.

I'm a product of 200 years of people melding.

God made me way I look.

So you can put a label on me and say, oh, well, he's not really from you.

On the way.

He looks Cuban, he looks Spanish, he looks French, you know, on paper colored or Negro, black, African American.

You know, I'm I'm a New Orleans.

I'm down that I'm a New Orleans.

Yeah.

I'm come out of this Creole culture, that's all.

Check out my work.

You.

And.

boy.

To hear.

What do you save?

So, Cedar chest.

Oh.

Oh oh.

These chairs, I mean, this stuff.

She said this stuff all day that I've been alive.

oh.

She never took that down.

Looks just like I left it when I moved.

I was messy.

And this is what?

My mom.

She was afraid that all the photographs would be ruined.

They might all be ruined, but I still got water in it.

I think that's Sean.

O radio survived.

That's a good thing.

I got him.

it had some mold on it.

I cleaned it off.

Yeah, that's really old.

That was our first radio.

I hope you can say some other things when you go back.

Well.

This was on top of ship, but really, everything else was kind of, you know, so you have to take me to get whatever I'm going to get.

Bed had collapsed.

the dresser where the TV was on top that fell over and collapsed.

the all your furniture, your bedroom.

France.

It just came apart.

I mean, it just sat in the water so long.

Yeah.

Things change and you accept the change.

you never know what's going to happen next time.

And you think you did this?

Yeah.

before Katrina, every couple of years, my family would gather for a big reunion.

After the storm, it looked like that might not happen, but now it's more important than ever.

And Katrina taught us anything.

But you got to feel.

Well, we're we're it's that we're all in this together.

We got to.

so less than a year after the hurricane in this building that had flooded.

But it's been restored.

We all gather for a New Orleans reunion when he was 12, so I can't even imagine you as a child.

But.

You.

Look at.

You.

And.

You.

How many y'all know?

Class.

Me.

And.

My.

Well, you know the people that are from New Orleans.

They are the coast.

Like me.

Like my musician friends.

I mean, we're all different.

We all have our opinions.

But we also are all very much the culture.

We are the culture.

It's in the people.

It's not in the building.

It's not in any particular house.

It's how you live in a house, how you decorate the house, how you build the house.

That's it.

we I it I believe.

Way we will close to be.

We live in any.

Let me.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa y'all.

Oh, close to the e. Hey you I.

Just want.

Thanks.

So.

I'll be satisfied.

Oh, well, I walk you be.

We just have to walk with you to the.

To let me.

There.

We're all supposed to be the end.

And me walk in the hall.

there we go.

I was wrong.

Jesus, keep me from all wrong.

Who said oh, and people, y'all all.

This.

Red.

Jesus.

Say warm and cozy.

Give me your name.

Oh.

Guess so.

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