SHE PRACTICALLY ran the details of the folk festival ... She was with me in every single way.

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.

It's more than the people here. It shows that New Orleans can still do this.

Live together, but don't get married.

The name of the game is to survive. If you can't survive, what is the point? You just go home and play your records. I don't think I'm ready to go home and play my records.

The next few months will be critical in determining whether we can put it on. It will depend on how operable New Orleans is, and how much the city's image changes.