New Orleans Inn: Sully Mansion Bed and Breakfast

We went to the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival yesterday to enjoy the Creole tomatoes, eat our local seafood and hear some good dancing music.  It was a typical June day in New Orleans, hot and steamy, bougainvillea blooming against a steel blue sky.  The festival is held along the river in the French Quarter and is actually three festivals in one, celebrating the Creole tomato, local seafood and Cajun and Zydeco music.  The tomatoes are fabulous, rich earthy smooth taste, seafood is still thankfully plentiful and the music is just what a hot sultry day called for.  Cajun is a slower waltz-tempo music sung in French with a mournful fiddle accompaniment.  Zydeco is kick up your heels dancing music featuring an accordion and washboard.

Just as we walked up to Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers the sky opened up to a Louisiana rainstorm pelting the area with thick wet drops.  With steam rising from the sidewalks, a few ran for cover but most folks just kept dancing. The band was tearing it up and their washboard player was incredible with energy and a great sense of rhythm, he had long arms and a skinny torso so from the side he looked like a stick figure with a washboard drawn on his front but boy could he play.  A few hours of listening, a dance of two between the raindrops, toe tapping under a wrought-iron gallery, a beer or two we  hopped back on the streetcar to the Sully Mansion where two couples who were guest of the inn and had formed a friendship at breakfast were sitting in the porch together drinking wine sharing stories of their lives.  Just another Saturday in New Orleans

Tags: bed and breakfast, New Orleans, New Orleans Festivals, New Orleans food, New Orleans Music

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