

Natchez Mississippi: "A Drinking Town with an Historical Problem"
5 years ago I received an email inviting me to be a musical director for the Natchez Festival of Music for their educational outreach program. Growing up in North Carolina and having lived almost half my life in New York City I had never heard of the town or the festival before except through a couple of fellow musicians who had also worked there. When asking people to describe the place I always encountered a loss for an adequate description but invariably the promise, “yo