Big Easy Benefit

I was looking for news on Johnny Sansone and tripped over this:

“This benefit concert was scheduled to happen in Louisiana in September, but Hurricane Katrina put an end the event. The promoter of the event contacted Resort Events in Vail, and together with 30th Street production the event was rescheduled in Colorado. It is ironic that these musicians and volunteers were bringing light to the problems of erosion and potential storm damage to the Gulf Coast at a time when the coast was virtually destroyed.”

Musicians including Cyril Neville, George Porter, Anders Osborne, Tab Benoit, Henry Butler, “Big Chief” Boudreaux, Waylon Thibodeaux, Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone and Herman Earnest…