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699 New Year's Traditions; New Orleans Originals; David McCullough Tribute

Travel with Rick Steves

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The Muse of Music in New Orleans

I think there's something organic about the city itself that nurtures beautiful, fun-loving music. There is an incredible family genesis story for so many people where you will get these incredible New Orleans musical families who will generate just one person after another. But then you also have a lot of really enthusiastic musicians who move into the city looking to be a part of this vital scene. They may bring kind of a different style with them and it's in that jamming that those two different maybe kind of dialects end up speaking to each other. So I think for the people who are from here, your muse is that like the world comes to you. Show up on your doorstep.

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