page_title: Liri Blues Festival
section_title: Tenth year and twinning with New Orleans
hierarchical_section_title: Liri Blues Festival / History / Tenth year and twinning with New Orleans
caption_attribution_description: English: Signing of the twinning between the communities of Isola del Liri and New Orleans. Present were the Italian console, the previous Mayors Marc H. Morial and Bruno Magliocchetti, Mrs. Luisa Lutrario, Mr. Luciano Duro (initiator of the Liri Blues festival) and Prof. Gianni Blasi. The delegation from Isola del Liri received the honorary citizenship from the Mayor of New Orleans Marc H. Morial. Italiano: Firma del gemellaggio tra i comuni di Isola Liri e New Orleans. Presenti il console italiano, gli allora sindaci Marc H. Morial e Bruno Magliocchetti, la signora Luisa Lutrario, il sig. Luciano Duro (ideatore del Liri Blues Festival) e il prof. Gianni Blasi. La delegazione isolana riceve la cittadinanza onoraria dal sindaco di New Orleans Marc H. Morial.
context_page_description: The Liri Blues Festival, founded in 1988, is one of the main blues music festivals in Italy. It takes place every year in July near Rome in Isola del Liri, a small town twinned with the city of New Orleans since 1997.
context_section_description: On January 7, 1997, for the tenth annual Liri Blues, the then mayor of Isola del Liri and the initiator of the festival went to Louisiana to sign the twinning between the two towns and to receive the freedom of the city of New Orleans.
  "The City of New Orleans is honored that you have chosen its rich heritage and culture as the centerpieces of your tenth annual Liri Blues Festival" 
  — Marc. H. Morial, ex-mayor of New Orleans, thanking the then mayor of Isola del Liri after the twinning between the two towns - January 31st, 1997
  The celebrations of the twinning continued in Isola del Liri, where the clarinettist Alvin Batiste, who once taught Branford Marsalis, gave a concert involving musicians from Isola and New Orleans.
  Batiste performed, among others, a jazz song called Isola del Liri, conceived for the occasion, he later included it in the album Songs, Words and Messages, Connections.
  As a token of their strong relationship over the years, Liri Blues was instrumental in helping the musicians of New Orleans following the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina in August 2005. On November 9 a charity concert (the "New Orleans Day") was organized. Corey Harris (protagonist of Scorsese's Feel Like Going Home) and a few other groups performed.
caption: Signing of the twinning between the communities of Isola del Liri and New Orleans (New Orleans, January 7, 1997).
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