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Red Beans and Bluegrass at the Hi Ho Lounge

05/01/09

Red Beans and Bluegrass at the Hi Ho Lounge

Standing on the corner of St. Claude Avenue and Marigny Street on a Monday evening, it's hard to believe that just inside the door of the Hi Ho Lounge, a menagerie of bluegrass and old-time country musicians are gathering, tuning their guitars, lifting banjos from cases and putting rosin on their soon-to-be sawing fiddle bows.

But once inside, and as the deep-roots music cranks up, it's suddenly hard to fathom how the inner-city scenes of Faubourg St. Roch could persist all around this rustic diamond in the urban rough.

Monday is the night for the Bluegrass Pickin' Party, an ad hoc jam session that is free and open to all who want to jump in with their acoustic instruments or just listen to the tunes from the bar....

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Ian McNultyA transplant from his native Rhode Island, Ian McNulty quickly discovered how easy it is to strike up conversations with New Orleans people simply by asking about their favorite clubs and neighborhood joints.

He asked often, listened carefully and has been exploring the nightlife of the Crescent City ever since.

McNulty was the editor and principle contributor to "Hungry? Thirsty? New Orleans," a guidebook to nightspots and inexpensive restaurants around town. He is also author of "Season of Night," a memoir about life in a devastated part of New Orleans during the first few months after Hurricane Katrina.

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