[Dixielandjazz] A prayer for N.O.

[Peter Sr. De Bruyn]

May You all be safe and sound over there !
 Peter De Bruyn Sr
MD
Belgium

 2005/8/28, dingle at baldwin-net.com <dingle at baldwin-net.com>: 
> 
> As we look at the impending potential for disastrous damage to New
> Orleans and the Louisiana area, Jean and I can only pray that some
> veering of the storm path will save this historic cradle of jazz. For us
> there is a certain personal link to this city. We were married in N.O.
> and will be having our 50th anniversary this November. We tied the knot
> in Grace Episcipal church on Canal Street right across from the Vieux
> Carre and spent most of a month there as I was playing a long stand with
> Ted Weems at the old Roosevelt Hotel's Blue Room.
> We had contemplated going down there to celebrate this year, but it
> looks like this will not happen. We do fear for the safety of good
> friends of long standing like Charlie Lodice, Roz Kohlman (Freddie's
> widow), and many other jazz friends living there we made over the years.
> So I guess we are joining our Yankee prayers to those of the rest of the
> country that this special place of our jazz roots willl somehow weather
> the worst of it. But it sure looks like something or someone really
> pissed off the weather spirits because this category 5 rating is the
> highest that this grand old city on the Mississippi has ever had to
> face. Hope you'll add your prayers to ours.
> Don Ingle
> 
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