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Members of the ReBirth and Treme Brass Bands lead a second line from the Landmark Theater, where Music in Exile premiered in New Orleans, to Tipitina’s in the French Quarter.
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Filmmaker Robert Mugge speaks at a reception following the New Orleans film premiere of Music in Exile
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Irma Thomas and Kermit Ruffin arrive to perform at the Music in Exile benefit gig at Tipitina’s French Quarter.
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Theresa Andersson sings an emotional rendition of Neil Young’s "Like a Hurricane" at Tipitina’s French Quarter for a hushed audience that had just seen the premier of Mugge’s film Music in Exile.
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Irma Thomas sings "It’s Rainin’" at the Music in Exile benefit concert.
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Bill Taylor, director of the Tipitina’s Foundation was happy to work with his longtime hero, filmmaker Robert Mugge, on the Music in Exile project. Mugge’s films have documented musicians, many of them obscure blues artists, since 1976.
