We have on tap so many people i need notes. My mom and my family. We have the roots of music with derek tab. Derek, get over here we have the hot a brass band. We have manny fresh as i introduced to you, the awardwinning music producer. The 50th Anniversary of hiphop is coming up tomorrow as a matter of fact. We will talk about that. Derek, lets talk about the rooster music. You come every year, you are the band for the rooster music. These are young people you are helping out. Explain what happens with the roots of music. Roots of music is an after School Program dedicated to serving the kids of new orleans. We take kids from all around the city, from over 30, 40 schools around the city, bring them to one safe location where they learn how to play music, new orleans music. They learn how to be friends before enemies, we teach them skills. You know what i love about this, i love about new orleans is the diversity here. Right. It is full of beautiful black people celebrating, and you are helping the young youth here, especially young black children here. Why is that so important to you . Because we find that they need something to do. All kids need something to do to be the best kids you could possibly see. Look at these kids here. They come half of these kids never picked up an instrument a day in their life and now theyre producing music. Thats what it is all about, teaching them how to survive, how to make it out of life. How long have you been doing this . 15 years. This is the 15th year. And you have Success Stories . I have a bunch of Success Stories. I have friends that could have been all the way to berkeley and spain. Berkeley in music. Werent you a runnerup for cnn heroes . Yes. Talk to me about that. It was a great experience. In 2009 i was a top ten cnn hero. Man, it was a great experience, to be around others. I love you, brother. I love what you do. Thank you so much. Dont go anywhere. We have some more people to talk to. Come here. Get over here. This is howie kaplan. We are standing outside now of howling wolf, which is a venue right in new orleans, right on the corner here. How many people you got here tonight . Got about 500, 600 people standing on the street tonight. Howie, you have a very special position here. Tell us what your position is here. So im the director of Nighttime Economy for the city of new orleans. They call me the night mayor. Not nightmare like scary dream, but night mayor. How did it happen . I get to represent the cultural city of new orleans, i get to represent the fantastic musicians and the people that do the work to make the city a special place. Im proud i get to be here every day representing my city. Who are these dolls you have behind you . Look at these ladies. Arent they gorgeous . They represent a particular part of our culture. Theyre part of some of the mardi gras people that make it so special in our city and they do it so beautifully. They do it year around but celebrate it coming to the mardi gras season. We hear so much about new orleans, what is happening in new orleans, of. As the nighttime mayor of new orleans, what do you want the world to know about the city . This is the most wonderful place in the world you can come. New orleans is a world class city. Theres no place better in the world to get what you grew up what, what i live with every day, the food, the architecture, the music, the culture, the art, everything about where we live and breathe every day is why so many millions of people come here every year. It is time to come back to new orleans. Can you explain to people when i first got here one of the first things you did was hand me this towel. This is a mardi gras thing. You sit here and throw your towel and do everything you have to do. We are a city and we celebrate everything. We celebrate misery, we sell brace loss, we celebrate passion, we celebrate everything and we do it like this. New years eve is the best time to do it. It is the symbol of the second line when you do it with the towel. Yes. Listen, we have a crab boil, we have a Crawfish Boil, what else . A shrimp boil, everything here. We will talk about the beautiful mural on the side of this building that was in honor of one of the people that started. So manny pete was the founder of the hot a Brass Band Standing behind me right now. The grammyaward winning hot a brass band last year. This was a gentleman who gave his soul and passion to the city. Look what he did over here, this beautiful, beautiful mural for a beautiful man that saved many lives and inspired so much passion. This is my gorgeous niece. Hi, gorgeous niece. Hi, don. How many drinks have you had . Several. This is her son. This is my greatnephew. Say hi, cairo. Hi. Of course, my mom. This is my gorgeous niece ashley. Say hi. Hi, everyone. This is my gorgeous niece, kimberly. Hi. This is ashleys son. Ashleys son, who is my greatnephew, is a university, Lsu UniversityHigh School Football star being recruited by lsu. Already playing varsity. Say hi. And thats it for my family. I want to take you guys back in the crowd. Come this way. This is the roots of music. This is what derek tap was talking about, the youth that they are getting here to take part in learning about music and learning about culture. The kids here dont get the experience of going to juilliard or dont get the experience of going to big music schools, so what derek tap does, he takes his kids, he introduces them to music. He takes some of them off the streets. He has Success Stories, and then they end up being on cnn. Now i want to go over here. These is where we are going to end up. My favorite place. Where . There we go. Yes hey this is my hometown. I grew up with this. So when you guys think that im Lit On Television or whatever, thats my personality. I grew up in the land of lais sei les bon temp rouller. We do this all the time throughout the crawfish season. We boil them up. Happy new year. You know where it is going great . Maybe almost as good but not quite is in the bahamas, in the caribbean. I want to go to cnns stephanie elan. We have been texting each other. I know you have a special guest that you cannot reveal, you didnt reveal to me. But you are going to reveal now. Is it warm there . Are you having a good time . I have been out here breaking a sweat while we were meeting your family because deejay webster is over here killing it. I have been dancing nonstop. Look who else is dancing, check it out. Look at this crowd. Look at this crowd, still partying. While we are here in Paradise Island in the bahamas and atlantis, now that 2023, about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. They had a big party here tonight that is still going on. We had kesha who is here as well and deejay west is shutting it down and everyone is having a ball here. We havent stopped dancing all night, don. Look, look, people are still getting it. It is so much fun here. On top of it theres one thing we have better than you guys, the weather. It is like hot as all get out right now, but it feels great. You see, you can tell. It is summertime down here, right. Just a great time had by everybody. Just really good energy, celebrating the new year with just about 3,000 of our favorite friends. It is always summertime in new orleans. It always party time in new orleans as well as always party time in las vegas. You know who else is in las vegas . Usher. Lets check in. How yall feeling . Tell me the girl around play it pharrell yeah we arise but you got to be smart about it sell em what sacrifice because do not sleep withou t it okay girl you dont have to call me its okay girl because im gonna be all right tonight listen waited for love so tonight im gonna do it you dont have to call its okay, girl cause ima be all right tonight you dont have to call do it for my babies ladies, scream you see youre searching for somebody that will take you out and do you right yeah, you are come on, baby let daddy show you what it feels like you know all you got to do is tell me what you sipping on and i promise that im gonna keep it coming all night long nothing to show i got a thing for you i can tell the way youre looking at me, girl s last leg. Yall need this. Youre Kelly Clarkson a whole new look for a whole lot less. Ahhh yyoure Kelly Clarkson i am. And you need this. I love it are we in a wayfair commercial . Maybe. Personal sauna. Ok i need that. Ahhhhh wayfair, youve got just what i need American Families of four throw out an average of 400 a year of meat and poultry. Ziploc bags help protect meat against Freezer Burn Unloc at home dinner dates. Ziploc. Loc life. woman oh, well this is me. man its still early. Do you wanna maybe grab a coffee . vo with the wells fargo active cash card you earn 2 cash back on what you want. Like coffee. And. 2 cash back on what you need. Pingpong. man no no no, just my shoe. vo like maybe shoes without laces. man just my shoe folks. vo the wells fargo active cash card. Thats real life ready. All right. Online. Okay. Im live. I had no idea i was live. It is hard to hear here because we have a bunch of people around us, we have the bands going. Were going to talk to these guys. Hi, guys. How are you . Happy new year. Good to see you again. I cant hear anything, i dont know why. Your name is evan, right . Im evan with Crawfish Company here in new orleans. We are cooking up some crawfish. We heard don was on the way and we heard he likes em, so hes trying em out. What do you think . I think theyre great. The entire commercial break and while usher was playing i was sitting here eating crawfish and theyre really good. Love to hear it. Stand by. Mom, do you want some crawfish . Yes. Do you want me to peel you some. I know how to peel em. Are you enjoying this . Yes. Here is what you guys should know. You guys think it is a big deal. Basically this is like every weekend in louisiana, especially during football season. We either fry fish, we do a crab or Crawfish Boil or fish fry, and theres bands everywhere. We do this every weekend. We are just always having a party, having a good time, you know. Thats how we enjoy our time here. So, mom, during the fall, like we would do this. We went to Southern University which is an hbcu, Southern University football games, it was like this. Yes. We had the bands playing, the battle of bands. Wed tailgate in the parking lot. We would have crawfish or shrimp and we would drink. Boiled corn and potatoes. And we would have a good time. I almost said the wrong word. A doggone good time. Let me tell you a story about resilience and about life and about love. My mom called me on Christmas Eve and said, this is really sad, her boyfriend died. Yes. She found her boyfriend unresponsive, right. And i told her, i said, well, mom, i want you to come host new years eve with me to talk about life and love. Yes. And to celebrate life. Yes. And you are here celebrating because life is what . Its short, baby. And it is for the living. It is for the living, and you told me, we all have to leave here one day. Yes. So anyway im celebrating with my mom who has dealt with some tragedy, but she taught me how to live, how to be resilient. She gave me the best advice ever that i have ever had in the world when i worry about things. She said 90 of the shi you know what that i think of never comes to fruition. Right. Thats how i live my life, not worrying about anything. When you guys see me all gregarious on new years eve and you think im lit, im having a good time. Thank you. But. Were only here for so long, and enjoy it while youre here. She is the best she is the best. So, listen, mom, turn around because we want to see you on camera. So, mom, how long have you been on this earth . 80 years. I gave her a surprise 80th Birthday Party for her birthday in october, and everyone said, are you going to give an 80yearold a surprise party. Of course. And what happened . It was a big surprise. So my mom doesnt go anywhere without her own glam squad. I said, mom, cnn is going to hire a glam squad for you. She said, thats okay, im bringing my own glam squad. Come here, beverly. How long have you been doing my moms hair . Over 30 years. 30 years. Over 30 years. So she takes her glam squad everywhere. And she comes to my house and does my hair. Absolutely. 30 years. What is this character like, beverly . Oh, my god. No words can explain how spoiled she is. Does it make you understand why i am the way i am . It does. Why . Yes, absolutely. Because . Because shes spoiled, youre spoiled. Im not spoiled. She spoiled you. Did you spoil me . Yes. Mom, you look really cute tonight. What happened . Im always cute. Always excuse me . Oh, my god. Yeah. It took something to come down here though, it really did. Yeah. It has kind of helped me out, it really has. Yeah. What do you say to the folks at home . You and i talked about, you know, anderson is doing this series on grief and how to be resilient. Yes. And has that helped you . By you talking and encourage on encourageing me to come here. It course i have flashes, it goes and comes. Sometimes im up, sometimes im down. So my mom and i have dealt with a lot over the last couple of years. My sister passed. Yes. And we dealt with that. And then her boyfriend passed and we dealt with that. Right. But guess what . You got to keep moving. Right. No matter what happens. Im still alive. My mom knows every single thing about me. Everything. No secrets. Yes. You will call me and ask me anything. Yes. And ive always advised you, and you will ask me what should you do. Im like, you know what youre supposed to do better than i do. One of the one of the best times weve ever had theres a drone going up, you see the drone right there . Playing out on cnn is when you and i went to ghana, do you remember that . Oh, yeah. We traced our roots. Yes. Was that beautiful . That was beautiful p. M. Ill never forget that. I remember sitting by the sea. My mom said to me, which was real moving, she said, you have im the mom, and im supposed to show you things. Right, but youre showing me things now, im learning from you. What was that like . It was amazing. You think youre grown and you know everything. I tell you guys, you try to rule me. Im like, ive been here 80 years and you think you know more than i do . Never. So mom, i love you. I love you. Im glad youre coanchoring with me. Oh my god, i was like, what am i supposed to say . Youre supposed to say whatever you want to say i cant say whatever i want to say. I know you want to say a lot. You have a lot to say to a lot of people who i might get fired. Exactly. I love you. Weekend excursion is performing in New York City and we have them, lets listen to them now. Thanks, mom, i love you. Love you too, baby. Look out the window see the lines pass me by on the road im moving onward as another chapter unfolds and i wonder who will i love and who will i see most of all i wonder who will i be it seems like yesterday i had it all and nothing was wrong but the times are changing i am moving on feel so alone but at the same time i feel so alive my time here is over im off to a new phase a new life and i wonder who will i love and who will i see most of all i wonder who will i be it seems like now that i had it all and nothing was wrong but the times are changing i am moving on again again again im staring at the back of her car and she drives away our time together is over now and i can hear myself say who is she loving who does she see most of all i wonder who will she be seems like yesterday i had it all and nothing was wrong but the times are changing and i am moving on again again again who will i love and who will i see most of all i wonder who will i be yeah seems like yesterday i had it all and nothing was wrong but the times are changing i am moving on again moving on again again again yeah yeah yeah everybody the world is moving everybody the world is moving everybody the world is moving hey hey its moving everybody the world is moving everybody the world is moving yeah yeah Swords Clashing had enough . 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