[Dixielandjazz] New Orleans Jazz Funeral For 2011 - January 8 in Philadelphia

[Stephen G Barbone]

Fans, Friends, Clients. (individual recipient list suppressed)

Once again the Barbone Street Jazz Band will provide the New Orleans  
Jazz at a Funeral and Second Line send off for the past year. The  
Funeral will be held at the Unitarian Society of Germantown Church in  
Philadelphia.

WHERE: 	Unitarian Universalist Church
			6511 Lincoln Drive
			Philadelphia PA 19119
			215-844-1157
			www.usguu.org
			
WHEN:		Sunday January 8  11AM to about Noon  (Come early, we will play  
from 10:40 AM on while					congregants gather. The church will be SRO  
by 11AM when the service starts)

WHO:		The tuba/banjo marching unit of Barbone Street; Steve Barbone,  
clarinet; Pal Grant, trumpet; Cindy 			Leiby, trombone; Mike Piper,  
drums; Pat Mercuri, banjo; John McClernan Tuba. Plus the  
hippest           			Preacher in Philadelphia, the Reverend Kent  
Matthies.

WHAT:		A traditional New Orleans Jazz Funeral for 2011 complete with  
open casket in front of the band. 				Congregants are given pencils  
and slips of paper and encouraged to write down events that 					 
happened during 2011 for which they desire closure, or things that  
they would like to see happen in 			2012. They come down the center  
aisle of the church and deposit the paper in the casket. all to the 			 
strains of Just A Closer Walk With Thee.

			Music before the service starts will be: Bourbon Street Parade,  
Basin Street Blues and Do You 				Know What It Means To Miss New  
Orleans. Music during the service will be What a Friend We Have 			In  
Jesus, L.O.V.E., Precious Lord Take My Hand, Just A Closer Walk With  
Thee, What A Wonderful 			World, Didn't He Ramble, Walking With The  
King and Saints with a second line around the church, 			inside and  
out because there are too many congregants to do it all inside

This is a wonderfully joyous New Orleans send off. Dancing in the  
aisles is encouraged, the congregants are very friendly and there is  
no pressure to convert. (VBG) The Rev, as we call Kent Matthies. is  
the hippest man of the cloth that I have ever met and he will get down  
and boogie with the best of them. If  you are in the area, don't miss  
this service. A free will offering is taken during the service to  
"Walking With The King".

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband