The Entertainment

The museum opened with a performance of the marching band from suburban Normandy High School. Inside, there was a place to pose before a photo of a blues-jazz band from 1920.  Sharp-looking young men.

That's about I have of this event.  Muddy Waters provides the summary.         

 

Pinceaux

Another shop of du Plessis courtyard, this time a closed one so the pic was taken through the window in March. It is, of course, a decorative painting atelier! Below, a shot taken (through the window again) in May 2015.

And even further below, a few details of the courtyard.

Une autre boutique de la cour du Plessis, "Noir de Vigne", atelier de peinture décorative, photo prise par la fenêtre en mars... La deuxième photo a été prise, toujours par la fenêtre, en mai 2015.

Ci-dessous, quelques détails de la cour.

Ted goes pan handling

St. Louis Blues

It's been years in the making. The National Blues Museum opened in downtown STL yesterday and it was worth the wait. It is a block and a half from my office so your faithful photoblogger showed up. The place is just spectacular.

The museum takes you on a walk through the history and styles of the blues, from the call-and-response field hollers of slave laborers on Southern plantations, across the south and up the riverways to Memphis, St. Louis and Chicago, to both coasts and around the world. There are exhibits about how it blended with country and western music and then, in the hands of our own Chuck Berry, created rock and roll. (Did you know that rock and roll was hatched in St. Louis? Chuck Berry is a native and life-long resident.) All the major musicians are featured as the exhibits take us to the present. Remember that the Rolling Stones were originally just an electric blues band. The corridors end at a room covering the active blues scene around our city.

A few more pictures to come - it was awfully crowded. If you find yourself in this part of the world you owe it to yourself to visit.

 

                               

Amber's Home

One of the shops that's open on Saturdays in Du Plessis courtyard (see yesterday's post) is Amber's Home. So pretty and all the linen can be personalised! Amber's Home's website is this way!

L'une des échoppes de la cour du Plessis (que VDP vous montrait hier) ouvertes le samedi, c'est la jolie boutique Amber's Home. Déco et linge personnalisable, un vrai coup de cœur ! Le site web d'Amber's Home, c'est par là et la page Facebook, par ici !