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Wavelength Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO Wavelength Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies 4-1984 Wavelength (April 1984) Connie Atkinson University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength Recommended Citation Wavelength (April 1984) 42 https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/42 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wavelength by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. APRIL 1984 Inside: Jazz Fest Schedule Chris Kenner George Dureau Photographs BULK RATE U.S POSTAGE PAID ALEXANDRIA, LA. PERMIT N0.69 C M A GA ZIN INTRODUCING 'MSAVE SUN BELT AUDIO VIDEO ENTERPRISES, FEATURES ADVANTAGES SAVE High output, low noise Dynamic range for true reproduction. 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I Fest '83 turned a profit. And with was going to take a little smoke, admirable foresight, the Foundation you understand me? Pills was just set about watering the roots of that like blackeye peas to me-l had money tree. Grants totalling 'em in a bowl, with no spoons. $106,072 were awarded to groups "Jesus came into my life. He and individual artists. The cate· showed that my body was a temple gories were individual fellowships, of the Holy Ghost and that God scholarships, and general support was holding me responsible for this grants for non-profit organizations. temple. And being a Holy Temple, Photographers, musicians, decoy serving a Holy God, that I couldn't carvers, dancers, poets, playwrights, put anything I want to in my body painters, actors and Indian chiefs because I was walking with Christ. all received financial recognition That Jesus hung out on Golgotha's from the Foundation. hill-He spilled His blood for me! Emphasis was placed on suppor­ He died foe me!! His blood came ting the cultural base of youth in trickling down for Little Richard!!! New Orleans. Fourteen youth­ "I said, 'Jesus, if you're gonna oriented organizations and in­ give me victory over these sins-if dividuals received funding, in­ you can just show me ... See, there's cluding the Uptown Youth Center no degrees to sins. Some people and McDonogh # 15. In future think when you do certain things, years, we may be parading to you're a devil, but when you do "Mardi Gras Mambo" after grant this, you're all right. Sin is sin. recipient Alcee Fortier High School "God don't like no fun-arcaders finishes adapting the Professor's like he don't like adulterers. He music for marching bands. The don't like drunkards like he don't youngest recipient of an award was like gamblers. He don't like steal­ twelve-year-old Patrick Taplette, ing like he don't like lying, you who received $500 tO finance his understand me? And so on and so studies with painter CliftOn Webb. forth. God loves you. Over 270 applications were "He's got angels all about you. received, more in the individual ar­ He's got angels protecting you, tist fellowship category than any baby. He loves you, Michael. We other. The committee, headed by Litde Richard consults the Good Book. do, too. He loves you, Marvin. He Rouselle, included Allison Kaslow , loves you, Gladys. He loves you, Earl Amadee, Claire Jupiter, Alan God Loves diet," Little Richard confessed to Diana. He loves you, Berry Jaffe and others. Grants for the viewers of the Christian Broadcasting Gordy." support of established artists were Little Richard, Network. "I was on cocaine. You awarded, as was the case with jazz know ·about free-basing-I was saxophonist Earl Turbinton (who Not Fun-Arcaders heavy into it. Ain't nobody say appeared at the last possible mo­ Around three in the morning on cocaine don't make you feel Jazz Fest Grants: ment, sporting a greatcoat and a the eighth day, the Lord created good-they're lying. It does make Funds, Funds, baseball cap) as well as monies for cable television, whereupon we you feel good but it's only for a the up-and-coming, like award recently spotted a svelte Little season without a reason that you're Funds winner Carl LeBlanc. The effort to Richard proclaiming to the lost doing it, you hear me? Bill Rouselle called it recycling support groups not normally sheep that he, too, had tasted sin. ''I was on alcohol, I was an . dollars as he handed out checks to reached by public funding resulted Snorted it, too. alcoholic. I smoked so much mari­ the sixty-four recipients of the New in awards to Indian tribes, in­ "You know, I was a cocaine ad- juana they should've changed my Orleans Jazz and Heritage Founda- cluding Vincent T repaignier, the oldest masking Indian, and the Free Missionary Baptist Church. It was not your usual corporate funding occasion. The brand new Jazz Fest recep­ tion area, lilac and wood and white iron pillars adjacent to the Rampart /Street offices, was a sea of smiling faces as awardee, awarders, proud parents, press, and friends ex­ changed congratulations and did the eating and drinking appropriate ''The funny thing is, people in New Orleans expect music, not just at parties but all the time." Brooklyn-born vinyl hustler Record Ron had the right idea when he celebrated the birthday of his Good and Plenty Record store March 10 by bringing in a little of the live stuff.
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