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Setting up at our home on a baseball field in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
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Doug writes out parts for a new tune for the Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra
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Paul mugs for the cameras during the group's opening circle
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Tiberio and Heather gear up for entertaining at the Senior Center in Bay St. Louis
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Jugglers warming up. Spot members of Nanda, a Mud Bay Juggler, a Karamazov Brother and a Noodlini
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Our welcome to the Senior Center
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The Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra
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Faith Petric, at 90, entertains the seniors
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Our youngest performer, Jeramiah, makes his performance debut
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Hancock County Senior Center in Bay St. Louis, MS
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Nanda at the senior center
"Look at the Tigers"
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Enjoying the show
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Tiberio charms the ladies, of all ages
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Chautauquans pitch in to help take down a huge tent, formerly used to house volunteers, outside the senior center
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It takes a village to lower a tent
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A crew spent an afternoon cleaning up the yard and garden of Arlene, who ran the Senior Center as a shelter for months after Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina flattened Miss Arlene's prize garden
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Eben the Mouse takes a splinter out of Mark the Lion's foot
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Our neighbors on the field, City Teams, invited us over for dinner one night. Oliver entertained the group.
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Cici and Faith
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The group went out to a local bar, recently re-opened, and took to the stage
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Chen juggling
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Tim spinning his light wands
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Misha basking in the neon glow
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Tiberio
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Gathering for a show in Pass Christian, Mississippi - Robin, Mark & Michelle
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Sound check, with an incredible local gospel singer and Carl, at God's Katrina Kitchen
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Setting up amid the distribution center stocks at God's Katrina Kitchen
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Robin and Papa Ray
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Karl relaxes before the show
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The band parades through the lunch tent to entertain and advertise the free show
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A collection of photos and info about God's Katrina Kitchen, including an ad for our show
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Tim leads the parade by the port-o-potty cleaning truck
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The Fighting Instruments of Karma and dancers open the show at God's Katrina Kitchen
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The Flying Karamazov Brothers
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The finale to Petra's tap-dance act
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Kevin Murphy performs his poetry
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Joey Pipia amazes a volunteer with his magic
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Nanda
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Pass Christian's Wal-Mart, like everything else, was destroyed by the hurricane and flooding
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8 months after Hurrican Katrina, wreckage is still everywhere
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Gabe relaxes in the green room for our next show, at a school in Waveland, Mississippi
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The band gathers in the hall
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Opening the show, as usual, the FIKMCB/O cram into the classroom
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The kids are enthralled by the Noodlinis
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Noodlini looks for volunteers
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Paul MCs the show
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Joey Pipia confuses the kids
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Petra tap dances
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Dusty Rodz and her handsome cowboy teach the kids how to yodel
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Nanda manages to go two-high in the tiny room
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Joan and Ray in the green room
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Dancing with the kids after the show
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Misha goes on a little trip
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Tiberio, Joannie, and our contact for the Head Start school group
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An informational panel from the Department of Environmental Emergency Tree Protection details how to help trees recover from storm damage
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A broken house on the beachfront of Bay St. Louis. This former showplace house had yet to receive any insurance money
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Another beachfront house in Bay St. Louis
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The remains of the road leading from Bay St. Louis to Pass Christian. The rail bridge spanning the same water was repaired and running by Christmas
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Bay St. Louis' church lost its steeple. The board's message, "He is risen," refers to the recent Easter holiday.
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The band rehearses at our baseball field home. Photographer John Fago was also along on the tour
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Erin mixes it up as we cook dinner for 300 at Common Ground, in New Orleans' Ninth ward
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Some of delicious food, created under the guidance of Chautauqua's chef, Tiberio Simone
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Robin Worley in Common Ground's outdoor kitchen
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Daniel mans the burners
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Rod wheeling tools back in after a hot day of gutting houses
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Andrea working for Common Ground
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Cici melting in the extreme heat of the day
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In a ruined neighborhood with hardly any residents, an ice cream truck is a welcome surprise
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The group enjoys cold treats and tries to beat the heat
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The Common Ground show order
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Malik, one of the founders of Common Ground
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Serving dinner at Common Ground
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A ten-course meal for the Common Ground volunteers and community
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Mark Ettinger accompanies Faith Petric
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Impromptu amplification at Common Ground
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Haute Trash Fashion shows off the shower curtain and tent Utilikilts
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Trash Fashion model, Erin, shows off her kitty can lids
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Nanda flips out
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Artis brings the crowd to its feet
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Chautauquans who spent the day gutting houses created a tool band
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The crowd wouldn't stop dancing, and the band wouldn't stop playing, so we spilled out into the street
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The New Chumleighland March, a FIOK standard
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Our next show at Emergency Communities, in St Bernard Parish, east of New Orleans
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Community members line up for lunch at Emergency Communities' Made with Love Cafe in St Bernard Parish
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Heather getting ready for the show in Michelle's van
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Tiberio shakes up coffee slushie to revive the wilted performers
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Tim leads the parade past the Port-o-Potties
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Parading through the outdoor lunch tent
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Andrea guards the show order
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Palletable band music for your amusement
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Harry Levine leads Emergency Communities to his tune "FEMA"
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David and the shiny sousaphone.
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Gina Leishman tells the tale of the shark in the Emergency Communities dome
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