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Fest Focus: Fredy Omar

May 1, 1999 by: Dan Stein

"Parrandeando ": Parading, seeing and being seen.

There's no place for parading like New Orleans, and there's no better place to see and be seen in New Orleans like Frenchmen Street on a Saturday night when Fredy Omar's Latin Dance Band is playing there. It's like Van Morrison's "Wild Night," only better: There's no inside jukebox that roars just like thunder, no, it's that Latin rhythm section: Bajo ...

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