Happy Tuesday with Fresh Food, Tattoos and Rum, Plus Great Music!

Happy Tuesday!

Farmer's Market and Fresh Food!

You can get your day started off right with a trip to the Farmer's Market!  Visit the Crescent City's Farmer's Market at University Square (200 Broadway) from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm for the freshest veggies, fruits and seafood.This month the Market welcomes La Hillel's Kitchen to the Green Plate Special. This week they're menu includes a falafel in pita with Israeli salad, or a rice bowl with curried veggies or lentils. Warm up with a cup of hot chai tea and celebrate carnival season with a slice of their special kosher king cake, a King David Cake!  Lunch doesn’t get much tastier!

Eat local and find more fresh veggies at the Hollygrove Market.   You can go by their location at 8301 Olive Street Monday  thru Friday 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sundays 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  They also have home delivery if you can't make it to the Market - Click here to find out how - http://www.hollygrovemarket.com/content/5669

In the "Box"!

-Naturally Grown Shiitake Mushrooms (MSNP, New Hebron, MS)
-Naturally Grown Blood Oranges (Alford Farms, Plaquemines Parish)
-Organic Satsumas (L’Hoste Citrus, Braithwaite, LA)
-Pesticide Free Collards (Frank Fekete Farms, Hungarian Settlement, LA)
-Hydroponic, Pesticide Free Slicer Tomatoes (Cajun Growers & Tomott’s)
-Pesticide Free Sweet Potatoes (Pointe Coupee Minority Growers Co-op, Pte. Coupee Parish)
-Pesticide Free Cabbage (Frank Fekete Farms, Hungarian Settlement, LA)
-Green Onions (Perilloux Produce) OR Beets (Frank Fekete Farms)
-Organic Pecans (Inglewood Farms, Alexandria, LA)
-Ruby Red Grapefruit (Star Nursery, Belle Chasse, LA)
-Organic Navel Oranges (L’Hoste Citrus, Braithwaite, LA)
-Green Tomatoes (Poche Farm, Independence, LA)

Tattoo and Rum Time!

Today in Celebration of Norman Sailor Jerry Collins' 103rd Birthday - Downtown Tattoos (501 Frenchmen)  is giving away 103 Sailor Jerry Swallow Tattoos. Doors open at 11:30 am and it's FIRST COME FIRST SERVED. They'll only be doing 103 so make sure you're in that number. Downtown Tattoos has also teamed up with 13 Monaghan and they'll be running $4.00 Sailor Jerry drink specials all day long. One free drink for anyone who gets tattooed!

Good Music Tonight!

Get your self to Mid-City and to Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal St.) for piano master Jon Cleary at 8:00 p.m., and be sure to stay on for The Yakiniku All-Stars featuring June Yamagishi at 10:00 pm - it's going to be a great night of music at Chickie's!

Come out to Yuki Izakaya (525 Frenchmen) on Frenchmen Street tonight and listen to the sweet voice of Antoine Diel if you haven't heard him yet around town - you're missing out! He kicks things off at 8:00 pm!

Right down the street the Spotted Cat (623 Frenchmen) has a triple header with no cover - Andy Forest at 4:00 pm, Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns at 6:00 pm, and top off the evening with the Shotgun Jazz Band at 10:00 pm!

There's more fun on Frenchmen over at d.b.a. (618 Frenchmen) with the The Treme Brass Band at 10:00 pm - there's a $5 cover for the show - but you know you don't want to miss it!

Top off the evening over at the Maple Leaf Bar on Oak Street...with the REBIRTH Brass Band - they come on around 10:30ish - there's a cover, but you'll be glad you paid and stayed up late!! 

Have a wonderful Tuesday and for more fun shows and events going on click on the WWOZ Livewire - http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar!



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