Rivershack Lunch Specials

[LauraMc]

Actually, they open at 11a.m. If any of you are ever going for lunch, let me know and I might be able to come down the road and meet you if I'm not booked in meetings all day.
Mike used to do several specials but he seems to just do one or two now. I'm sure it's easier for him. And 90% of the time, it's something I want. We went last Friday and the special was a seafood bouillabaise. I'm just not a fan of bouillabaise so I settled for an oyster po-boy.

[edible complex]

yesterday there were people waiting at the picnic tables outside when I passed at 10:53am...and they weren't leftovers from the night before for Gal Holiday.

[Oyster]

Can't get there for lunch, but saw Gal there few months back on a Thursday evening, and that just didn't work for me. Kind of a quirky venue thing. Now, the show she did at Balcony Music Club after her FQF session was killer!!!! Guess I'm just used to dark, smoky, loud bars.

Can't wait to catch her again. Missed her this weekend at the Broadmore Fest.

[Blue Cross Sux]

Can't get there for lunch, but saw Gal there few months back on a Thursday evening, and that just didn't work for me. Kind of a quirky venue thing. Now, the show she did at Balcony Music Club after her FQF session was killer!!!! Guess I'm just used to dark, smoky, loud bars.

Can't wait to catch her again. Missed her this weekend at the Broadmore Fest.

Gal really doesn't have the pipes to pull off what she's doing. Too off-key too often. It is nice to hear some honkytonk on occasion, though. It's like a palate cleanser given the omnipresent NOLA funk and brass band genres around town. Same with Bluegrass. Always a welcome change of pace.

[Oyster]

Gal really doesn't have the pipes to pull off what she's doing. Too off-key too often. It is nice to hear some honkytonk on occasion, though. It's like a palate cleanser given the omnipresent NOLA funk and brass band genres around town. Same with Bluegrass. Always a welcome change of pace.

Ya think? Weak pipes? I have never thought that. Thought right on with the vocals, just much better with full band rather than 3 piece backing*. As far as Bluegrass...well.. yeah, I've really been missing that over the last 25 years. I tune in Hazel on Sundays, but really lacking there on the REAL Bluegrass...

* Your opinion may vary. Due to enormous alcohol consumption by the poster at all live performances, sounds to your cranium may be unmeasurably more accurate than the opinion stated.

[kcdixiecat]

Ya think? Weak pipes? I have never thought that. Thought right on with the vocals, just much better with full band rather than 3 piece backing*. As far as Bluegrass...well.. yeah, I've really been missing that over the last 25 years. I tune in Hazel on Sundays, but really lacking there on the REAL Bluegrass...

* Your opinion may vary. Due to enormous alcohol consumption by the poster at all live performances, sounds to your cranium may be unmeasurably more accurate than the opinion stated.

I love bluegrass! It's just fun. I grew up with this music and it always reminds me of home. What and where is Hazel?

[Oyster]

I love bluegrass! It's just fun. I grew up with this music and it always reminds me of home. What and where is Hazel?

Same for me!

Hazel has one of a handful of Bluegrass groups in the area. Hazel Schlueter. Her band is Hazel and the Delta Ramblers. On WWOZ-90.7 FM, she has the Sunday morning 10 am - 12 noon spot and plays Bluegrass and Olde Tyme Country. Plays some events around the area. Started a Steam Train Festival last year in conjunction with the refurbishment of the old Steam Engine built in NO which lived in Audubon Park for years for all the kids to climb on it. The engine is actually a working engine now, an you can pay to take a ride. I believe it is in October at The Fly near Audubon. She also does exercise classes, but foodies aren't interested in that...

links:
http://www.wwoz.org/programs/old+time+c ... ta+rambler

http://www.tunesource.com/hazeldeltaramblersmusic.htm

[cstoehr]

Ditto on the Buegrass. My brother is in the Boys From Carolina and mostly plays the dobro, although he also does banjo. They have started a website, and are doing really well. They travel to festivals and have opened up for some gospel shows as well. He was amazed that someone from one of the festivals they played asked them to do their wedding!

[Turbodog]

The best bluegrass ever played in this area was by the country band "The Copas Brothers" in the mid and late 1970's. Those guys could lay it down. Pat, Dickie (PaPa), LJ and the gang were the sh*t.

I just heard theat LJ and Pat occasionally play together in BR. I will be checking that out, for sure.