Possible New Orleans Excursion for NOLA soul fans/collectors

[Michael Bailey]

I am an avid (lunatic?) New Orleans soul/r&b collector. I believer there are others here. I just found out today that the legendary Dew Drop Inn has been renovated as a hotel and club. See: https://secure.thinkreservations.com/dewdropinnnola/reservations (I had to stop looking when I couldn't decide between taking the Allen Toussaint room or the Irma Thomas room or the Huey Smith room.) I have a very preliminary idea that I want to put out there to see if anyone else might be interested. Suppose we planned a meeting at the Dew Drop Inn for NOLA music fans/collectors. Maybe for a 3 day weekend. I live outside Chicago but could definitely advise about food excursions. Maybe we could enlist Deacon John Moore as an MC one evening. Noted NOLA record collector Kent Chatellier would probably help us plan things, including a night or two of NOLA DJ spinning. Lilke I said, this is just throwing an undeveloped idea out there. Let me know if you are potentially interested. If not enough people are interested, I'll have to go to the Dew Drop by myself.