Music plays a big role in everyday life. Before my 12 hour night shifts at the ER, I would get ready to some thumping reggae, afrobeat, pop or reggaeton music. I have reminisced about my youth to the tune of those golden oldies. Some songs remind me of my Papa when they play, and others remind me of sweet times growing up abroad, others remind me of sad moments but, all in all, music has been a central character in this play that is my life, a welcome veritable soundtrack that, with each song genre, some particular song, paints a vivid memory for me of my life at particular times.

The Wailers

B&W

Fred of Cowboy Mouth, Pensacola FL

Gramps Morgan, Humboldt CA ROTR

Blankets and Wine; Nairobi, Kenya

Kymani Marley ROTR Humboldt, CA

Blankets and Wine; Nairobi, Kenya.

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux

Bounce Artist New Orleans

Brass’ing it up in New Orleans

Jazz Fest NOLA Bounce dancer

Lauryn Hill, New Orleans Jazz Fest

Sign says it all…

Jazz Fest NOLA Bounce Performers

Luke James on Valentine’s Day in New Orleans

Music is Life

Treme Brass Band

Duane Stephenson

JBoog’s crew, ROTR Humboldt, CA

Treme Brass Band New Orleans

Treme Brass Band

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and Anders Osborne

Chief Boudreaux and Anders Osborne; JF NOLA