Joke of the Day for 19 April 2024

I got PTSD trying to cook gumbo.

I roux the day.

In honor of having two of my favorite New Orleans brass bands performing here in Durham today and tomorrow – Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Rebirth Brass Band. Between the two of them, they have promoted and preserved one of the most characteristic American styles of music – guaranteed to get your toes tapping and off your seat!

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Blaise Kielar received Honorable Mention in the 2022 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize for an excerpt from his memoir in progress, "Be Heard: The Quiet Kid Who Started the World’s Loudest Violin Shop." He opened Chapel Hill’s first violin shop in 1978 and retired from a music retail career by transitioning Electric Violin Shop into the first worker-owned co-op music store in the United States. He plays jazz violin and clarinet in several bands and leads the Bulltown Strutters, Durham’s community New Orleans brass band.

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