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Associated Press: Pandemic, hurricanes top Louisiana news for 2020


Hurricane Sally impacts Louisiana s Dauphin Island in September of 2020.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Louisiana, like the rest of the country, was hit hard in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. It also was pummeled by hurricane after hurricane and faced a variety of accusations of racial injustice.
The year’s top stories:
COVID-19
The new coronavirus infected more than one in 20 Louisiana residents, killing 6,400-plus - more than one of every 1,000 people in the state. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the economy, including oil, tourism and seafood. Outbreaks sickened people at crawfish farms and in prisons and nursing homes; schools closed. Those flouting emergency public health orders included a minister and his congregation. Deaths from the disease or its complications included those of jazz great Ellis Marsalis and the 2007 Zulu king.Christmas Eve bonfires were canceled. So were New Orleans’ 2021 Carnival and Mardi Gras parades. ....

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Year in Review: New Orleans took tough hits in 2020, but 'the music is going to come back'


In September, around the six-month mark of the pandemic shutdowns, trumpeter James Andrews ended a conversation with Gambit on an optimistic note.
Earlier this year, Andrews released a book with Monique Bornstein, “Born in The Treme,” and he was touring Europe when the shutdowns began. He scrapped the tour and got one of the last flights back from France. After that, he said, it was just a “domino effect” of lost work: Music venues closed, regular gigs were canceled and then the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and French Quarter Festival were first postponed and eventually called off.
Andrews was left in a “holding pattern.” But as the months ticked by, he started to work on new material and began performing small porch concerts or dropping into neighborhoods for small, physically distanced concerts. ....

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