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Fred's Birthday Party

Fred's Birthday Party

Jazz, gospel, and good times at a plantation house in New Orleans

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Oct 26, 2021
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I’m going to share this with my blog readers, but I wanted to share it with y’all first. See that main in the red gingham? That’s S. Frederick Starr, a jazz musician, historian, former college president (he ran Oberlin for 11 years), Russian and Central Asian expert, and adopted New Orleanian (he was born and raised in Cincinnati, but got to the Crescen…

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