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So far, HBO has confirmed a list of cameos for the first season of Treme: Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Steve Earle, Kermit Ruffins, and Donald Harrison Jr., along with other prominent New Orleans musicians, are featured in early episodes.
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HBO unveiled more details about Treme, the New Orleans-set series from The Wire genius David Simon, and it sounds amazing. After The Corner, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire, and Generation Kill, I think a lot of us would follow Simon et al pretty much anywhere.
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After a four-year absence, Broadway is returning to the Crescent City. Five of the best Broadway productions are heading to New Orleans, as Broadway Across America brings a full season of celebrated musicals to the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts. One of which is “The Color Purple,” the acclaimed stage play based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel.
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The LHC's oral history project, As Told By Themselves: the New Orleans Brass Bands, continues on Wednesday, June 24th, with the Treme Brass Band.
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Skirting the Treme, and further east the Seventh Ward, St. Roch and St. Claude neighborhoods, the adventurous visitor may experience the charm and flirt with the blithe unpredictability that permeates the real New Orleans that many tourists miss.
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There will be anew TV series about life in post-Katrina New Orleans, but his time it won't come from the folks at Fox but at HBO. According to Variety, David Simon's pilot for Treme has the greenlight .
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Lying at the edge of New Orleans’ fabled French Quarter, Faubourg Tremé is considered the oldest black neighborhood in America. Not a lot of people know that the Southern civil rights movement originated there and that jazz was born there.
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When it was first conceived, the Faubourg Tremé documentary was slated to be a contemporary film with only a few minutes of historical footage to set the background. Once filming began, director/producer Dawn Logsdon and co-director and writer Lolis Eric Elie realized the history of the community demanded otherwise. READ STORY
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Rebirth Brass band playing the 24th annual Sudan Second line parade featuring Derrick Tabb on snare and Phil Frazier on tuba
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