about

Yamomanem  came together a couple of weeks after  Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.   I watched on TV as news trickled out of Nola, Some of the first words my oldest son ever spoke were "superdome broken" as he watched us glued to the TV looking for some sign of something or someone familiar, destroyed or intact, dead or alive.  Through a fresh perspective of Katrina; it occurred to me that there may not be much secondline, that maybe people would be so spread out into the country and maybe New Orleans wouldnt come back.  I recruited all the people I knew in the DC scene who did New Orleans music. And some who didnt and DC's secondline scene was born- small, loud and proud.

 What we end up with is a repetoire rooted in the 20s and 30s  hot jazz styles. Some carribean creole stuff culled from my days with Panorama Jazz down south,  and we use electric guitars, funky congas. and like to play the secondline beats of the street too. Not really a brass band, not really a dixieland band. we like old new orleans music at the root of it all- but that tree has lots of branches. and we'll go out on a limb if we feel like it- besides happily for all of us- New Orleans is back and rolling, so we dont need to preserve anything - just spread it around!  Our CD should be out in later this year... fiddlng with it. 

 Monty, Tuba.