Anybody who comes to this year's festival will bear witness to the healing power of music.
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A lot of people up there will have lost everything, and be struggling to come back and, you know, this is a faith-based music. When they come in there, they talk about having church. So it's not a church -- but it's a place where you have church.Quint Davis
There will be a Jazz Fest in 2006. It will be as close to New Orleans as we can get it.
Quint Davis
At that time, 1970, not many white people had seen black gospel in its full glory. Gospel was not common at blues festivals or jazz festivals. So, you know, we got on kind of a mission there to bring gospel on down to the front of the bus, as we called it.
Quint Davis
It was touch and go for most of the time. If Shell and our other sponsors had not come through, it would not have been possible. It would have just been too much.
Quint Davis
The true heart and soul of the New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival, as with New Orleans itself, is music. It's the force that drives and defines us. It's not just for entertainment, but it feeds our soul.
Quint Davis
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