Amelia Lormand
Bayou St. John, New Orleans
I know Amelia through Ellen Magellan. They both have a Cajun background. Amelia is a multi-disciplinary artist and like a lot of these musicians a dynamo of sorts. She did biology at Tulane, childcare, and before she came and did a tinyboatsession I saw her in a musical in the Marigny. After this, she would perform in a science fiction musical in a pool as the Sigourney Weaver character from Aliens.
The colors of this spring evening tinyboatsession were an otherworldly sherbet of colors. There was a light warm rain but it seemed like it was passing. I met Amelia in Bayou St. John, a sliver of a waterway that I grew to appreciate as the keystone waterway as to why New Orleans was built where it's built. Short answer, it cuts in from Lake Pontchartrain and as long as humans have lived here it has been the conduit connecting the Mississippi River to the ‘lake’ that is actually a tidal estuary with better access to the sea from an 18th-century sailing ship than the Mississippi.
Today the bayous sides are lined by concrete and behind it is thick Bermuda grass. A few of the houses that line it are over 200 years old. Amelia had a lot of songs and a few pulls of some whisky to share and the rain stayed way just long enough to enjoy all of the sunset. @missmorningmusic