...and now the bad news

Also from Dave Walker, it looks like Season 3 is delayed until the Fall.
Sheeyut.

Treme Nominated for 5 NAACP Image Awards

Now that's what I'm talking about!  Dave Walker has it at NOLA.com.

The biggie is Outstanding Drama, but there are also noms for Lolis Eric Elie, Ernest Dickerson, Wendell Pierce, and Khandi Alexander.

Heritage: A Brass Band Celebration

Hosted by Treme actor Tony Frederick, and supporting Trumpets NOT Guns, Glen David Andrews' project, this looks crazy!  Friday, Jan 20.

Click here for link

2011 in Music

An interesting little run-down of New Orleans music in 2011.  I personally was glad to see Trombone Shorty get more national cred, even if we had to look at Ashton in Shorty's camera commercial.

Louisiana Weekly

Happy New Year

Thanks for your support of this blog and HBO's Treme.  Can't wait until Season 3 begins sometime in April!  Here's a classic for this Sunday afternoon...

Tom Piazza on Writing for HBO's Treme

Fantastic piece up at Levees Not War.  Tons of links to inform the content.

One thing I’ve thought a lot about since starting with screenwriting for Treme is that in fiction there is always the question of what you dramatize and what you want to explain by way of exposition. In other words, do you show something happening, or do you tell about it as having happened at more of a distance? In film, where everything is dramatized, there is no equivalent to exposition except for the voice-over (such as something like having a narrator say, ‘It was a bleak winter of homes and entire neighborhoods nearly leveled, and determined residents struggling to get by and start over . . .’). This experience of writing for the screen where virtually everything is dramatized sharpened the questions I asked about what to dramatize when I turned back to fiction.

and...

When asked which characters he most enjoys writing for, Piazza replied that “you have to love writing about all the characters—and this is true of fiction too—but I especially have fun writing for the character Davis McAlary (Steve Zahn), who comes from this Uptown Garden District family, but he’s bohemian, a would-be musician who hangs out with all these musicians and artists. He switches modes of diction very flexibly, depending on the setting he’s in. Also, it’s wonderful writing for actors as good as the ones in the Treme cast, because whatever you write, you know they’re going to get it and be able to play it.

I highly recommend reading the whole thing.  Here's a link to Piazza's Devil Sent the Rain.

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