Hi! I'm Sally Young! Welcome to my podcast EVERYTHING NEW ORLEANS!

Growing up in New Orleans was like no other experience on the planet. I always knew that there was no other place like it. 

As a teenager, I started working with the music that was the soundtrack of my youth. Professor Longhair, Earl King, Al Carnival Time Johnson. They became real people to me, not just voices I heard on records. 

I worked with a lot of Mardi Gras Indians, after seeing them on my way to my Nanaan’s apartment on the corner of St. Charles & Jackson on Mardi Gras Day. 

Then I got to ride in the Zulu parade a couple of times, passing that same corner where I stood on the neutral ground since I was a little kid every Mardi Gras morning. 

My life revolved around the music, food, and community spirit of New Orleans. 

That became my SERVICE and ultimately, my JOY. 

SPECIAL THANKS to the George and Joyce Wein Jazz and Heritage Center

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