Great music, Bloody Mary’s and good friends, what better way to celebrate the ones we loved and lost than a traditional New Orleans send off. Last Sunday, the Crooks Second Line paraded up Duval Street in remembrance of lost loved ones, especially musicians and a few pets too. The event also helps raise money for the Bahama Village Music program inspired by the drummer Jim Crooks and helped by his family, Jim and Rebecca Robinson.

Hays Blinckmann
Hays Blinckmann is an oil painter, author of the novel “In The Salt,” lover of all things German including husband, children and Bundesliga. She spends her free time developing a font for sarcasm, testing foreign wines and failing miserably at home cooking.