Improvisations Gala 2023

Storyboard
Written By Ellis Anderson

photo by Melanie Cole

December 2023

This annual fund-raiser for the New Orleans Jazz Museum is one of the city’s most spectacular, featuring Jason Neville Funky Soul Band & Special Guest "Mr. P Funk" George Clinton, New Orleans cuisine and craft cocktails, a Sound Collage lighting display, exhibits and special jazz-related arts installations.

- photos by Melanie Cole

 
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photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

Photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Ellis Anderson

“We want the funk!” video clip

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Melanie Cole

photo by Ellis Anderson

photo by Melanie Cole

 
 
 
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Ellis Anderson

Ellis Anderson first came to the French Quarter in 1978 as a young musician and writer.  Eventually, she also became a silversmith and represented local artists as owner of Quarter Moon Gallery, with locations in the Quarter and Bay St. Louis, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  

Her book about the Bay's Katrina experience, Under Surge, Under Siege, was published by University Press of Mississippi and won several awards, including the Eudora Welty Book Prize in 2010 and the Mississippi Library Association's Nonfiction Author's Award for 2011.  Under Surge, Under Siege was also short-listed as nonfiction finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan International Book Prize, Stanford University Libraries.

 In 2011, Anderson founded her first digital publication, the Shoofly Magazine and served as publisher from 2011 - 2022.  She established French Quarter Journal in 2019, where she currently serves as publisher and managing editor.

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