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Category: Field Reports

Field Report: 2025 VIP Ladies and Kids Second Line Parade in New Orleans

2025 VIP Ladies and Kids Second Line Parade in New Orleans

Field Report: 2025 Uptown Super Sunday Indian Party at Shakespeare Park

2025 Uptown Super Sunday Indian Party at Shakespeare Park

New Orleans has a thousand parties a year but there are only two that you have to experience no matter where you’re from, be it Mongolia or Shreveport: Mardi Gras Day and Uptown Super Sunday.

Field Report: 2025 CTC Steppers Social and Pleasure 9th Ward Second Line

Field Report: 2025 CTC Steppers Social and Pleasure 9th Ward Second Line

We rolled with the 2025 CTC Steppers Social and Pleasure club on their 9th Ward second line yesterday. This is what we saw:

Field Report: Funerary Second Line Treme Brass Band Saxophone Man John ‘Prince’ Gilbert

Funerary Second Line Treme Brass Band Saxophone Man John ‘Prince’ Gilbert

John ‘Prince’ Gilbert carried out of Charbonnet Labat Glapion Funeral Home to be taken to his final resting place.

The Council For The Preservation Of The Po Boy Sandwich Visits 2024 Oak Street Po-Boy Festival

The Council For The Preservation Of The Po Boy Sandwich

The Council For The Preservation Of The Po Boy Sandwich, of which I am the only member, recently visited the Oak Street Po Boy Festival to eat a few po boys and survey the landscape of po boys in the year 2024.

New Orleans Street Fashion: 2024 Prince of Wales Second Line

2024 Prince of Wales Second Line

New feature y’all. New Orleans street fashion. Tell us what you think.

2024 Halloween Street Life In New Orleans

2024 Halloween Street Life In New Orleans

Field Report: 2024 Dumaine St. Gang Social and Pleasure second line in New Orleans

2024 Dumaine St. Gang Social and Pleasure second line in New Orleans
2024 Dumaine St. Gang Social and Pleasure second line in New Orleans

We rolled upriver to the Treme neighborhood this past weekend to watch Dumaine Gang’s second line. This is what we saw:

Field Report: 2024 9x Social and Pleasure Second Line

2024 9x Social and Pleasure Second Line
We attend roughly 50 second lines per annum in New Orleans. 9X is our favorite parade.

Field Report: 2024 Original Buckjumpers Second Line in New Orleans

2024 Original Buckjumpers Second Line

This past weekend the Original Buckjumpers hosted their 40th anniversary second line in Uptown New Orleans. This is what we saw:

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