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Tune in on Thursday, July 12, for an extra special edition of Traditional Jazz, starting off with one hour of music dedicated to Uncle Lionel Batiste, Treme Brass Band's bass drummer and co-leader with Benny Jones, who passed away on July 8th, 2012.  Unc's inimitable style became recognizable worldwide, as he performed at countless second lines, clubs, and jazz festivals as a drumm

Tune this Wednesday, July 11th for 3 hours with Mark Bingham.  For those who don't know Mark, he's a producer, arranger, musician, engineer, visionary, cook, he does it all!  (validated source - pietystreetcom)  His studio, Piety Street Studios is in the Bywater section of New Orleans.   Some of the music to look forward to:  new Iguanas, Taj Mahal, Michael

Don't miss this amazing concert:  Circle Bar (1032 St. Charles Ave. @ Lee Circle) is hosting "Summer Love" benefit concert, sponsored by the New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation, benefiting One World Family international health & education initiatives in Thailand/Burma, Indonesia and New Orleans.  The lineup (in order of performance) is:

The Tone Scientists of the Tuesday Kitchen Sink are proud to bring you the annual reading of the Declaration of Independence, the ur-document of these United States.  We will bring it to you with the list of grievances and consanguinuity.  Of course, there will be music to go with it courtesy of Jimi Hendrix, Dizzy Gillespie, and Kermit Ruffins.  It's all about Freedom, the p