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MUSIC IN THE GARDEN with LOOSE CATTLE and Anders Parker
Join LOOSE CATTLE and special guest Anders Parker, grazing among the banana trees at a private garden in Bayou St John, steps away from the Fairgrounds. While everyone else is still trying to find an uber home from the Fest, you can be sitting with friends and neighbors enjoying a night of music and community under the stars. Free snacks and a modest cash bar on site. Well behaved kid and dog friendly with adult supervision. And if the adults need supervision...we'll deal with that together. Bring a chair, but please no outside food or drinks.
gates 6:30pm
music 7:30pm
end 10pm
LOOSE CATTLE:
Loose Cattle is led in tandem by Michael Cerveris and Kimberly Kaye - a onetime couple, enduring friends and lifelong working artists. The band was formed more than ten years ago in New York City, but found its momentum when the pair moved to New Orleans, broke up and were welcomed into its warm (and expert) musical community. They joined forces with Rene Coman and Doug Garrison, 40-year veterans of the Latin-inflected roots-rockers the Iguanas and Alex Chiltons former rhythm section; they also roped in fiddler and vocalist Rurik Nunan as a regular, plus a host of repeat co-conspirators from a bench that, in the Crescent City, is even deeper than the Mississippi that runs through it.
Kaye is conservatory-trained in trumpet, jazz vocals and musical theater; she also traveled the Warped Tour circuit in the late 90s, playing with teenage ska-punk bands. Cerveris toured as a guitarist with Husker Dus Bob Mould and scooped up a pair of Tonys and a Grammy Award during a stage-and-screen career thats included the title roles in Tommy, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Sweeney Todd; close work with composers from Pete Townshend and Elton John to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Steven Sondheim; and a rogues gallery of cult-favorite weirdos on Fox, HBO and Netflix. Part of the reason why we gravitated towards Americana and country music was that the tradition was so full of complicated characters, and storytelling, Cerveris says. Theyve played Lincoln Center, NPRs Mountain Stage and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival; both Rolling Stone Country and No Depression nodded to their 2017 album Seasonal Affective Disorder on its best-of lists.
Loose Cattle are inheritors of the progressive politics and compassionate humanity of folk and country truth-tellers past and present, some of whom have become friends: both Lucinda Williams and Patterson Hood guest on 2024s Someones Monster, produced by John Agnello (Son Volt, Dinosaur Jr.) as their debut for the mighty Southern indie Single Lock Records. The album ably takes on these weird American times with tenderness, rigor, empathy, and guitars. A hit with critics and audiences alike, the record spawned four singles receiving radio play across the country, and finished the year at #85 on the Americana Album Chart Top 200, and #10 in No Depression Magazines Year End Readers Poll Top 25 for 2024.
ANDERS PARKER:
The rare troubadour touches rock and roll with the depth and candor and scope of Anders Parker.
He entered the scene in the mid 90s when a 4-track recording he made in his Portland, OR apartment, titled Man of Sin, got passed around. Doing it himself and his way and with the energy that album had to offer, Parker formed a band and began walking a trail that has defined his life. As the leader/songwriter/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist and under the moniker Varnaline, Parker toured, eventually released 5 albums under that name. Parker entered the indie lexicon.
As all things do, Varnaline ran its course, beginning phase two of Anders artistry, releasing albums under his own name. Tell It To The Dust and Anders Parker (s/t) set about to give air to Parkers unsettling need to explore genres, pushing forward his even more intensely weathered views on life and love. Skyscraper Crow is a double album exploring electronic instruments on one album, acoustic instrument on the other dualities and double meanings, abstraction and fixed stars. With Cross Latitudes, Parker released his first fully instrumental album of electric guitar pieces. Theres A Bluebird In My Heart tracks back to formal songwriting veering from ballads to scorched earth rock.
Also in the mix and adding to his pedigree, a chance to put Woody Guthrie lyrics to music came around, resulting in New Multitudes. Alongside Jim James, Jay Farrar and Will Johnson (all tour mates individually, and as a collective) Parker soared on songs such as Angels Blues and Old L.A. and Fly High to great acclaim.
Not to belabor the many faces of Parker, yet to be mentioned also is a record of duets with Kendall Meade under the name Anders & Kendall. He was a member of the experimental rock band Space Needle. And he made an album of traditional folk songs with Jay Farrar under the moniker Gob Iron.
2017: Anders has once again decided its time to explore. To ruminate. To question things. The idea of a sparse record, one with string trio, pedal steel, acoustic guitar and voice, nothing else, was there to be mined. Titled The Man Who Fell From Earth, Parker quietly explodes with orchestration layered over his classically dark lyrics, hinting at new love and even more questions about the universe and our place in it all. Truly a stunning album from start to finish, it is the beginning of yet another phase in this outrageously gifted songwriters life.
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Bayou St John
New Orleans, LA 70119
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: Yes! |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Accessibility
no stairs, but uneven ground. Wheelchairs welcome and plenty of people to be of assistance
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