Max-Beer Minstrels

11.29.07



Last night was the first night that I have slept through the entire night in several days. Usually I have been awake between the hours of 3-6 am, watching a movie or reading. This past Saturday was one of those occasions with fragmented sleeping but I was waken up around 11 am by the sound of live music being played on our street. I couldn't quite identify it but it was slowly getting closer. I went to look out the window and only saw a few neighbors with a fixed gaze staring down the street. Not exactly scowling and not exactly smiling. Then I saw the three men, one with an accordian, one with a trumpet, and one with a saxaphone. They were walking down the middle of the street in a Pied Piper, parade-like fashion playing what I can only describe as a Turkish jazz. They seemed enthralled playing to a captive audience. I guess they assumed that 11 am was the time for the city to wake up New Orleans-stye.