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NOLADrinks Show – 3-25-19 – French Quarter Fest Series – Helen Gillet and Derrick Freeman

On this edition of The NOLADrinks Show we have our next French Quarter Fest Series from Louisiana Music Factory! With the festival right around the corner, we’re all getting excited! This time around, we talk with two highly multi-faceted musicians, cellist Helen Gillet and percussionist Derrick Freeman.

Pictured above from left – Derrick Freeman of Soul Brass Band, Helen Gillet, and Bryan Dias of The NOLADrinks Show.

NOLADrinks Show – 3-25-19 – French Quarter Fest Series – Helen Gillet and Derrick Freeman

We start the show off letting you know what’s on tap this week. We also let you know about next week’s show featuring interviews from the 3rd annual New Orleans Bourbon Festival.

Then, we’re off to our featured interview and the next installment of our French Quarter Fest Series from Louisiana Music Factory. We chat with two very talented musicians – percussionist Derrick Freeman, leader of Soul Brass Band among many other things, and Helen Gillet, a very eclectic cellist. Both draw on numerous influences and genres in their music.

We talk about their backgrounds in music, both started young, and some of their influences. Helen grew up in Singapore and comes from a bilingual household. Her multicultural upbringing is reflected in her music that ranges from Indian music to French chanteuses to rock. Derrick, a long-time New Orleans resident who studied at UNO, was raised in Houston and comes from a classical background along with musical theater. His projects have spanned jazz to New Orleans music to hip-hop. He is a leader of the Soul Brass Band.

Next up, we talk about food and drink. Helen and Derrick touch on their love of cooking and some of how their upbringing and experiences abroad have influenced their palettes. We even get into some favorite recipes and kitchen ideas!

We close out the radio portion of the show talking about French Quarter Festival and what it means for them to participate. Derrick and Helen talk about when and where they are playing and a bit about what to expect from their performances. They share some of their experiences playing past festivals – Derrick, for example, has played with a who’s who of the fest!

Pictured at left from left – Helen Gillet, Derrick Freeman of Soul Brass Band, and Bryan Dias of The NOLADrinks Show.

Helen and Derrick stick around for our podcast-only “Another Shot with NOLADrinks.” We cover some more ground, namely, they both share some terrific stories from touring abroad – don’t miss it!

We close things out with our “Parting Shot” talking about how New Orleans defies genres.

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Cheers, You All!

~ Bryan

Music Played on This Episode

Here’s the music we played going in and out of the commercial breaks and the radio portion close. All can be found in-person or online at Louisiana Music Factory:

  “Quand Je Marche” – Helen Gillet

“Circles” – Sould Brass Band

“Slow Drag Pavageau” – Helen Gillet

“Levels” – Soul Brass Band

“Vautour” – Helen Gillet

Mayor Of #PortArthur, #Texas, Streams Video From Inside His Flooded Home #Harvey #hurricaneeharvey #Houston #Flood

    We got some water, y’all. Harvey wasn’t playing,” Mayor Derrick Freeman of Port Arthur, Texas, says in a video that shows knee-deep water inside his house. He’s far from alone: A large shelter in the coastal city was flooded by rainfall dumped by Tropical Storm Harvey.

At least 100 people had sought refuge at the Bob Bowers Civic Center — only to see brown, murky water rush in, flooding a…

Show Us the Proof

Councilman Freeman, Mayor Prince and Councilman Williamson

Port Arthur mayor blames media for forensic audit controversy, says it’s time for city to heel

That’s right, Dictator (whoops, my mistake) Mayor Prince, blame the news media for everything!  You poor, innocent creature, you.  How could anyone think little ol’ you could in any way be responsible for the controversy surrounding the demands…

Port Arthur Petition Drive

From KBMT 12 News:

Petition drive continues endeavoring a forensic audit of Port Arthur city finances

The Jefferson County Beer Party urges all Port Arthur residents to seek out and sign these petitions.  It may well be the only way the people of the community will be able to learn just how taxpayer dollars are being used (or misused) by the city, and will force Mayor Prince and her ilk to bring…

Peace News Now host, Derrick J. Freeman published a blog titled “Chris Cantwell is All Wrong” today, and in the process, proved the exact opposite. The post is also mirrored at Free Keene, under the title “Peaceful Evolution Not Violent Revolution“.

To his credit, Derrick did not take the path of other negative commenters by repeating the fallacies that I dispelled in the article. He instead…

After watching Margaret Mead and Samoa and seeing the mounds of evidence that debunk her theories of coming of age in Samoa, I really found it nearly impossible to stay on the side of the argument that Mead was correct about Samoa. I can somewhat see the side of those who say that a significant amount of time passed between Mead’s and Derrick Freeman’s periods of study of Samoan  however, to come to such radically different conclusions seems rather unlikely. On top of that, there are just so many sources that lend themselves to Freeman’s views and oppose Mead’s. the differences in Mead’s accounts from Freeman’s and many others accounts of Samoa, One of Mead’s subjects herself admitting that much of what she and her friends told Mead was fabricated, Others from Samoa saying that her account completely contradicts their and their ancestors way of life, the fact that Mead never returned to Samoa to reestablish her findings, and the fact that Mead only stayed in Samoa for 5 months when  2 years has become somewhat of a minimum in anthropology made it impossible for me to believe that Mead’s account was accurate.