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All we had was creativity, a group of nice folks, and a love of our city and its culture. Helped 104 musicians, 33 Mardi Gras Indians, 67 Second Line & Baby Doll members, 23 artists, and others. As the krewe members have grown, the parade has become very kid-friendly. We are proudly one of the only parades where parents march alongside their children.

Sean has always found art as a tool for navigating life throughout his work and academic career. He began his artistic practice as a landscape painter and over the years has transitioned into a variety of subjects that investigate the human condition. Sean is a self-taught artist who utilizes oil and acrylic paints, and collage materials. Sean’s mixed media piece, “Unresolved Grief” was featured in Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative as a part of the organization's efforts to increase emotional awareness of mental health issues. In 2019 Sean was accepted into the Louisiana Contemporary at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. In 2020, Sean completed a 5 month residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.

This concept bundles local restaurants together as “brigades” to multiply their potential to feed first responders and others working in the coronavirus fight. It has grown to five such brigades supporting 95 restaurants, with $45,000 in sales contributed by the start of May, according to Chef’s Brigade. A grassroots effort to support independent New Orleans restaurants during the coronavirus shutdowns has come to an end, though its blueprint is now being applied to other parts of the city’s cultural landscape. Jay Butler and Shonda McNeil at Joey K's on Magazine Street, one of the restaurants helping feed health care workers through #feedthefrontline, while getting a lifeline of business in take-out mode.

It's just not on the same scale.” De Wulf isn’t keeping the information to himself. He’s “spilling the beans” and believes any city or town anywhere in the world can do the same thing, so they’ve created a toolkit for other cities to start up operations to help their front line workers and local economy. Cracker Barrel is partnering with Sony Music Nashville artists including Chris Young to raise money for meals for healthcare professionals. For every meal purchased, the cult-favorite restaurant chain will donate one additional meal to caregivers at HCA Healthcare-affiliated hospitals in Dallas; Houston; Orlando, Florida; Tampa, Florida and Nashville, Tennessee. Fans can watch the livestream concert on Cracker Barrel’s Facebook livestream on Sunday, April 26.

Restaurant Support Effort Feed The Front Line Serves Last Meal, Shifts To second Line

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The Black Men of Labor held the first SAPC Second Line parade in October 2005. New residents of New Orleans embraced the Second Line tradition and parade routes were publicized online inviting outsiders to participate. Playing it coy has never been the institutional strong suit at Commander’s Palace. If the peacock blue-striped awnings didn’t loudly declare the fanfare woven into the New Orleans establishment’s DNA, the jazz band marching through the dining room on any given Saturday and Sunday just might. Since its doors opened in 1893, Commander’s Palace has been New Orleanians’ go-to for celebratory brunches and festive dinners. The novel coronavirus has now forced the beloved gathering place to temporarily close its doors, but co-proprietor Ti Adelaide Martin and her team have found other ways to keep the restaurant’s hospitable spirit alive.

Sign up for special tips, offers, and info about all the latest happenings around NOLA with our monthly Insider’s Guide, delivered right to your inbox. For more information on second-lines and their history, visit the Backstreet Cultural Museum and the House of Dance and Feathers. New Orleans artist Terrance Osborne is doing that through a new piece of art called, "Front Line." The Krewe of Red Beans is know for its suits, which are decorated with food items such as beans, rice, lentils, bay leafs, peas among other things and inspired by the intricate bead work of Mardi Gras Indians.

Usually, the second line brings the wedding guests and bridal party from the ceremony to the reception. The newlyweds lead the procession, umbrellas in hand, while the wedding party and guests follow the band with handkerchiefs. For more information on how to have a second line at your wedding, visit our wedding page here.

Carlos spoke to Mark Cave of the Historic New Orleans Collection for their series, From The Frontline. Here, Carlos describes how he was able to transform the pandemic into a time of growth for his tortilleria. Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee Every February, Mardi Gras brings more than a million tourists to New Orleans, but this March it brought COVID-19. Before the Coronavirus hit, on Lundi Gras , Devin De Wulf, who founded of The Krewe of Red Beans twelve years ago, was leading his family-friendly Krewe through the streets of the Crescent City. De Wulf’s wife, Dr. Annelies De Wulf, was parading with her husband and the Krewe.

This led to what became known as a "jazz funeral", with the SAPC members marching in a dirge with a brass band before the deceased body being "cut loose" and a celebratory parade begins. The same club exercised their social aspect with a colorful, annual, public Second Line parade through their home community. The initiative will pair older, more vulnerable musicians and artists with their younger counterparts to assist them with shopping for their groceries and household needs. Violence has marred some parades in recent years, including the May 12, 2013 Mother's Day Parade shooting where 19 were wounded and one was trampled. De Wulf says that in addition to helping local restaurants, the morale boost for the health care workers is an important part of the effort. Feed the Second Line, a sister effort, was announced on Friday , which would have been the second day of our city’s beloved Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Longer parades often make stops, commonly at bars, where refreshments have been arranged for members and those following the parade for fun can purchase something. There are often vendors selling soft drinks, beer, and street food, including barbecue and yaka mein. Feed Nola A second line snare drummer commonly follows the brass band, playing off the marching beat with improvised polyrhythmic figures that can inspire second line dancers or, if the band is improvising, the band itself. Second line drumming styles became a feature of early jazz drumming and the New Orleans Rhythm and Blues of the 1950s.

Today, he says he hopes it was a bridge for restaurants as they recast themselves for business under pandemic restrictions. Sean Gerard Clark is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee who has lived and worked in New Orleans for the past ten years. Before coming to New Orleans, Sean graduated from Morehouse College with a Bachelors of Science in Biology with a concentration in Public Health and African-American Studies. Sean has always found art as a tool for navigating life throughout his work and academic career.

As of April 19, the Feed the Front Line NOLA had sent over 60,000 meals to doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers engaged directly with COVID-19 patients, spending $566,000 in the local economy so far. “We chose the name Feed the Front Line NOLA because the hospital workers were the ones protecting us,” says De Wulf. The group commissioned six local artists to create original work based on a photo taken by Katie Sikora during one the food deliveries to Tulane Medical Center. The works were printed with the slogan “NOLA Healthcare Won’t Bow Down,” and they appear around the city as posters, banners and yard signs. Jay Butler and Shonda McNeil at Joey K's on Magazine Street, one of the restaurants helping feed health care workers through #feedthefrontline, while getting a lifeline of business in take-out mode.

Feed The Front Line NOLA is now bringing in tens of thousands of dollars in donations every week, and spending about $20,000 a day buying meals from local restaurants to deliver to hospital workers. De Wulf knows it’s not enough, but his hope is that it keeps going long enough to keep the restaurants from closing their doors. A staff worker from the French Quarter restaurant Justine loads ready-to-eat meals to be delivered to medical staff at Ochsner Health Center West Bank. Feed the Front Line NOLA is buying $20,000 worth of food from local restaurants every day to feed to hospital staff. “Our city is full of these very special treasures, people who have been musicians for decades or are part of the culture in one form or the other,” says De Wulf.
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