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Article: Rythm and roots New Orleans greats will headline a Deer Isle festival

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New Orleans is a city inexorably linked to jazz.

So it was completely natural to bring in musicians from the Crescent City for the Deer Isle Jazz Festival, which runs tonight through Sunday. But for Larry Blumenfeld, the volunteer producer for the festival over its eight years, the connection to New Orleans goes much deeper than that.

A well-known jazz critic, Blumenfeld, now editor-at-large for Jazziz magazine, has as a matter of course visited New Orleans many times over the past two decades.

Thanks to a Katrina Media Fellowship from the Open Society Institute, Blumenfeld has spent months at a time in New Orleans over the past three years, and in doing so, he has discovered a side of the ...

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