If you’re reading this right NOW, I hope you may have picked it up at the Second Annual Satchmo SummerFest. It’s a great idea for a festival, and it’s slated to be an annual event in the Crescent City. This issue has a list of all the programs at the SummerFest and gives you insight into one of New Orleans’ musical mainstays—Uncle Lionel, of the Tremé Brass Band. Yeah, it’s hot in New Orleans in August, but keep those festivals coming! You are gonna love