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New Orleans Stew With Paul Sanchez

Presented by: Jamboree

0	LONDON: Jamboree
P	Sunday 22nd January, 2017
N	7:00pm

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A night with the critically-acclaimed native New Orleanian Paul Sanchez and his unique blend of music and storytelling, singing and breathing everything New Orleans.

Paul is known as a founding member of the rock band Cowboy Mouth, with whom he has 11 albums; for his role in the HBO series TREME where he played himself; and as the creative force behind the musical NINE LIVES, a musical adaptation of the best-selling novel by Dan Baum. NINE LIVES follows the lives of nine people in New Orleans from 1965 (the year Hurricane Betsy ravaged the city) through 2005 (the year of Hurricane Katrina) and beyond.

Paul's music and storytelling is at once powerful, sad, humorous, entertaining, and hopeful. Like many New Orleanians, Paul was tremendously impacted by Hurricane Katrina, having lost his home. “I lost my home, my possessions, community and, eventually, my job after the flood. I was changed, am changed as a person and it couldn't help but change my music", confesses Sanchez, who like many struggled to find a new identity after Hurricane Katrina. After much soul-searching, he left Cowboy Mouth to go solo.

He has been awarded the Off Beat Magazine title of Songwriter of the Year 2014, and won three Best of The Beat Awards n 2010. These were for Songwriter of The Year, Best Song of The Year and Best Folk/Rock Album for Stew Called New Orleans, his duet record with friend and collaborator John Boutte. In April of that same year Gambit Weekly awarded him Best Roots Rock Performer at The Big Easy Awards.

Primarily a songwriter Sanchez has written songs for Darius Rucker of Hootie and The Blowfish, had a song in the country charts which was recorded by The Eli Young Band, and a song covered by Irma Thomas, the Soul Queen of New Orleans. Paul currently resides in the Treme neighborhood.