Chanteyranger -- now I understand your nickname! I'm curious about the park where you work; I was not aware that there was any other "park" in the country like the one we have here (which isn't so much as "park" as a series of programs operating out of a couple of buildings in the French Quarter).

Sunpie Barnes is a fairly well-known local performer who fronts his own zydeco band on a squeezebox of some kind. Matt Hempsey is a young guitar player and a (relatively) recent graduate of the Jazz Studies program at UNO (U. of New Orleans, of course). Matt's not as well-known by name as his colleague, but gets plenty of work backing up others in various groups, working in all kinds of genres.

They aren't generally seen wearing their Smokey-the Bear hats after 5 p.m. ;^)