Love that music on Treme - "Poor Man's Paradise" | New Orleans Stuff

Every week on the HBO series Treme, it's another sound track of New Orleans.  This week, Poor Man's Paradise, is no exception. Enjoy it!

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4 (FOUR!) second line parades this weekend | Gambit

Take your vitamins and get your street shoes out cause we bout to get busy this weekend. Four (4) second line parades happening this weekend, three downtown, one uptown: Black Men of Labor, 6t'9 Halloween Parade, Men and Ladies of Class, and Treme 200 United Second Line...

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Historic Treme neighborhood, New Orleans melting pot, celebrates 200 years of food and music | FOX News

The colorful and musical New Orleans neighborhood called Treme is marking the 200th anniversary of its origins as an early melting pot for the city and the nation.

Treme (truh-MAY) is considered one of America's most unusual neighborhoods and holds significant place in the history of jazz. It is also getting some new energy thanks in part to the spotlight provided by the HBO series "Treme."

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music of Treme "Knock with me - Rock with me" Season 3 premier | New Orleans Stuff

The music of Treme "Knock with me - Rock with me" played on TREME  (s3, e22) Story by David Simon & Anthony Bourdain Directed by Anthony Hemingway...

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HBO Renews Treme for Fourth and Final Season | TVGuide

HBO's Tremé, the New Orleans-set drama, has been renewed for a shortened fourth and final season, creator and executive producer David Simon revealed at a Season 3 premiere screening Saturday, according to The Times-Picayune.


Tremé, which centers on the culture of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, averaged 2.2 million viewers last year, far below the averages of other HBO dramas like Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones. The series airs on Sunday at 10/9c on HBO.

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TREME Season 3 Poster | HBOWatch

Do you recognize everyone here? You should if you are a fan of TREME. They are the cast of Season Three of the New Orleans based show TREME on HBO. Together they weave a story about a neighborhood section of NOLA and their struggles after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005...

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New Orleans Celebrates the Life of Lionel Batiste | New York Times

The drums could be heard first and then the brass,

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and then, far down the street in the twilight, people could be seen dancing and swaying, the bells of sousaphones above them like halos. Shuffling back and forth at the front of the parade was a paint horse named Sunshine that somebody taught how to dance.

The man being laid to rest is Lionel Batiste, known to everyone for decades as Uncle Lionel, to many simply as “Unc.” Mr. Batiste, who was 80 when he died of cancer on July 8, was the singer, bass drummer and assistant grand marshal for the Treme Brass Band. He was also one of the great New Orleans personalities, the face of Treme and a consummate man about town...

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Treme Season 3 Premiere Date Set | TV Blend

Treme is set for its third season. Treme’s executive producer David Simon has already spoken out to say Season 4 of the hit show will be the show’s last...

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HBO Stands Behind Treme | OffBeat.com

Richard Plepler and Michael Lombardo, HBO’s co-president and programming president, respectively, both said they renewed their modestly-viewed, New Orleans-set drama because they like it and believe that it’s telling important stories...

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'Treme' extra dreams large | NOLA.com

Being an extra isn’t as anonymous as it may seem. Au contraire, ye of little faith; I walked past the cameras at least 50 times, which obviously means that I’m going to be featured prominently. Who knows, maybe they liked my impassioned shouting so much that they’ll ask me back for a more permanent role. That’s how people make it in this business. It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there.

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Eric Overmyer talks New Orleans Jazz Fest and Treme | Huffington Post

Treme series co-creator Eric Overmyer is a longtime New Orleans resident, and a big enough fan of New Orleans music to make the city's musicians the cornerstone of the show. Are there ties between the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and HBO's Treme? Enough to warrant a Tuesday taping of a "festival-like experience" in City Park. Tim Robbins directed Treme Episode 2, "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky." It's a Thanksgiving episode introducing the wider world to Sissy Bounce, a phenomenon including New Orleans gay bounce artists Sissy Nobby, Katey Red and Queen Diva Big Freeida...

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Extra, extra: Treme wants you for HBO Season 2 music fest finale | NOLA.com

“Treme” is re-creating a certain “Outdoor Music Festival” for the season finale, and its makers are inviting the city to show up and attend. No one’s saying the words “jazz” or “fest,” but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out where our favorite HBO characters will wind up at the end of this season.

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City demolishes homes used in Treme ads | WVUE-TV

The producers of HBO’s Treme backed preservationists' call to save some blighted houses. But, the city went ahead with the planned demolition of the seven houses in the Hoffman Triangle neighborhood of Central City.

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'Treme' A Vital Platform For New Orleans Musicians | Billboard

At any of Kermit Ruffins' barroom gigs in his hometown of New Orleans, you can bet that there's someone in the audience who's tapping a new visitor on the shoulder, saying, "That's the guy from 'Treme.'"


Basin Street Records president Mark Samuels, whose label has released Ruffins' music for 13 years, says he sees it happening with growing frequency at the vocalist/trumpeter's weekly set at Vaughan's Lounge, and at other performances in the city...

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'Treme's' Wendell Pierce to deliver Loyola's unified commencement address | Loyola University New Orleans

Award-winning actor Wendell Pierce will address Loyola University New Orleans’ Class of 2011 during its unified commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 14, at 9:45 a.m. in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The star of HBO’s “Treme” series will also receive an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters during commencement exercises. Pierce joins Loyola’s other honorary degree recipients including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., legendary music producer Cosimo Matassa, and New Orleans businessman and Loyola trustee emeritus John B. Levert Jr.

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Treme is not for the casual viewer says creator David Simon | The Telegraph

The creator of The Wire tells Benji Wilson why his new drama about New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is not for those who want their TV spoon-fed. That most people can’t pronounce the name of his new television show should be a pointer.Treme – David Simon’s elegy to post-Katrina New Orleans, pronounced “Truh-may” – is all about taking viewers to a place they don’t know...

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Anthony Bourdain writing restaurant scenes for Treme season 2 | NOLA.com

Treme series co-creator David Simon recently confirmed Anthony Bourdain, the author (“Kitchen Confidential,” “A Cook’s Tour”) and TV star (the Travel Channel’s “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations”), is writing restaurant scenes for the second season of “Treme.” …

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HBO's Treme coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray

Treme is coming to DVD and Blu-ray. The 4 disc DVD & Blu-ray collections includes the season’s first 10 episodes, including bonus features, behind-the-scenes "The Making of Treme,” “Treme: Beyond Bourbon Street”, a guide to the songs featured on the show and audio commentaries.

Treme to be available on DVD and Blu-ray (Warner Home Video / HBO) on March 29, 2011. The HBO show is an American television drama series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. It takes its name from Tremé, a neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. The series begins three months after Hurricane Katrina where the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and ordinary New Orleanians try to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane.

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HBO's 'Treme' season 1 soundtrack out today | Zoiks! Online

The HBO series “Treme,” named for the historic neighborhood where jazz was born, follows musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians and ordinary New Orleanians as they try to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The soundtrack includes 19 tracks featuring music heard throughout the first season of this groundbreaking series, offering a cross-section of New Orleans-bred music that includes rhythm and blues, soul, jazz, rock and roll, funk, folk and country...

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Treme, the musical heart of the Big Easy | TODAYshow.com

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