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Christmas comes but once a year

Christmas comes but once a year

Which is a good thing, and if you can attend a Christmas concert by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band that is more jazz than Christmas, that's even better.

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John Kenyon
Dec 13, 2023
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I came into the Preservation Hall Jazz Band "Creole Christmas" show at the Englert Theatre on Tuesday night carrying a bit of baggage. An email sent the day before said the 7:30 p.m. show was expected to last until 10 p.m. I'm not a big fan of Christmas music, to say the least, so I wondered if the brassy energy of New Orleans jazz could counterbalance …

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