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Home Of Northshore Musicians & Artists
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2008 Event Sponsors
Children's Art Stage Sponsor Poster Sponsored By Electricity Work donated by Organizational and Financial Support donated by the Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce Publicity is made possible by a grant from the Tangipahoa Parish Tourism Commission
Restrooms Provided By Pot-O-Gold Printed Materials Provided By Premier Printing & Norman Falk The Northshore Regional Endowment For The Arts Board would like to thank Deborah Anderson and Anderson Small Business Solutions for chairing this year's event! |
The Porch Rockers Brothers Charles Austin and Glen "Spyder" Austin and their friends David "Byrd" Boyd and Roby Travelbee, four neighborhood boys from New Orleans, growing up together from the days of little league baseball, built campfires behind the levee (on land called the batture) and learned to swim in the muddy Mississippi. Inspired by the music and popularity of the Beatles, practically every male coming of age in the 60's took up some musical instrument. These guys and many of their friends were no different. Practicing in a friend's dad's garage (thus the term "garage band") they played different gigs at parties and competed in local C.Y.O "battle of the bands". As adults, they'd still get together in their own living rooms in up-town, New Orleans to "jam". When little babies came along, the tots crawled around or slept on a quilt on the floor as their dads, uncles and friends entertained them with homegrown music. One by one they migrated north of Lake Pontchartrain to a small town called Ponchatoula, searching for the "good life". They continued playing music with each other and with their extended musical family as other old and new friends came up to visit. They played in their living rooms, around campfires at home, and out on the porch at every opportunity. Dubbing themselves "The Porch Rockers", they began entertaining larger crowds at private parties, celebrations, festivals, cigar bars & pubs with the music of Van Morrison, The Band, Steve Earl, Lyle Lovett, New Riders of the Purple Sage, John Prine, Bob Dylan, and the Grateful Dead. In the summer of 1998, The Porch Rockers met drummer, Dr. J. Duke from Clarksdale, Mississippi. J. Duke was taken with their real New Orleans spirit and was soon sitting in and playing drums and percussion with them. The new line-up of The Porch Rockers debuted at Simple Pleasures in Ponchatoula on September 25, 1998. Their gigs got bigger and better including a regular outing to Hopson’s Plantation in Clarksdale, Mississippi, home of the cross roads and the blues. They continue to play regularly in and around Ponchatoula and the Manchac swamp and other areas north of Lake Pontchartrain. Their music is an amalgamation of every song they’ve played and loved. Somewhere between the Hackberry Ramblers, the Band and the Louisiana Hayride of years gone bye. It’s kind of a Texas-Louisiana swing, zydeco, Cajun, rhythm and bluegrass sort of thing with that fish head feel (I think they want to be the Band). Some folks have taken to calling it Americana because there is no name for it. It’s just their roots. Call (985) 386-2538, 4368, 0456, 7762, or 6496 for bookings This is a picture of their last CD's cover named Rows To Hoe:
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