Welcome to LPB's an evening at the governor's mansion, a Christmas celebration with special guests, the Preservation Hall All-Stars featuring Greg Stafford.

We are so excited that this entertainment for you this evening, so I've had the honor to collaborate with a few projects with my teach man to the Louisiana first Foundation with the Preservation Hall Foundation this year.

I think you all will agree that Louisiana is the greatest state in the nation for a lot of reasons, whether it's the the culture, the history, the traditions, the food, but also the music.

There's no finer musicians anywhere in the country or the world than right here in Louisiana.

Amen.

Preservation Hall has held the torch of New Orleans music law for 60 years, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history that they were founded to preserve is a musical living history.

So the preservation hall started in 1961 with Alan and Sandra, Jeffrey Geoffrey, I should say.

And since the beginning, the hull broke a lot of records, but it also broke a lot of barriers, including the racial barrier.

And I will tell you, they have meant so much to the city of New Orleans and to the state of Louisiana.

So tonight's all star ensemble All-Star Ensemble selected from the 58 members of the venue's musical collective, is led by Mr Gregg Stafford.

Gregg is an icon in the New Orleans second line culture.

We all like a good second line and began his career as a pupil of Danny Barker.

He has led the legendary Young Tuxedo Band Brass Band since 1984, which initially started in the 1930s.

So now I'm going to give you the name of the all stars, and I'm excited, so please help us welcome Greg Stafford, who will be playing trumpet.

Lewis Ford, who will play clarinet and saxophone, Ronald Johnson on trombone.

Walter Harris on drums and Carl Roussel will be playing piano tonight.

Terry Lewis will be playing the bass fiddle behind me and Jack Morrissey will be on the French horn.

Of course, ladies and gentlemen, in their 60th year of musical celebration, we welcome to the Governor's Mansion Preservation Hall All-Star Band featuring Greg Stafford.

Thank you so much.

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Ladies and gentlemen.

The next election will be an old standard song has been played in around New Orleans for over 100 some odd years.

The tune entitled Panama.

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And this next election that we're going to do for you is going to feature our trombonist, Mr. Ranil Johnson.

And he's going to do a nice old standard Christmas song entitled.

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Hey, this next lesson is a song that was brought to popularity by the great Sophie Tucker, the love song entitled Some of These Days You're going to miss me, honey.

Most of all, my money.

State is saying this is something you feel only.

Hugging, oh, my kissing.

Goodness me, honey, we're not going away, wait until silly, just like only us, you know, honey.

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Don't be greedy.

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OK. Our next election is going to allow us to feature our fine clarinetist, and he's going to do a nice old him for you.

You know, gospel music played a very significant role in the development of New Orleans jazz because in New Orleans, we have jazz funerals.

On many occasions, Tibet jazz bands did play in the churches and we still playing this particular song today, going to feature Mr. Lewis Ford the tune entitled Just a Closer Walk with the.

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Mr. Lewis fought.

It is a song that we're going to play for you that was written and composed by a great drum out of the city of New Orleans, by the name of Paul Barbarin.

He wrote this tune and he called it the Bourbon Street Parade.

Let's find out how about right down?

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We might sing with the eight spots on Bourbon Street right now.

The point before they played this last song that was the very finest jazz music anywhere in the world by the very finest jazz musicians anywhere in the world, the preservation hall all stars.

And I don't need to tell you it has been a very long couple of years here in Louisiana and really in most parts of the world.

But in addition to the pandemic, that just about every part of the world has experienced, we've had five major hurricanes strike our our state in the last two years.

We've had flooding and so forth, but we have the most generous, resilient, wonderful people here in Louisiana.

And so we.

We look forward to a much better 2022.

And we're going to pray for one another, we're going to lift one another, one another up and we're going to wish everybody a merry Christmas.

Everybody join in.

You all know this song.

We wish you a merry Christmas... Do you?

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Everybody.

And I had.

You will see when they regress.

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Thank you for a beautiful evening and evening in the governor's mansion.

Thank you for being here.

God bless each and every one of you.