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	Podcast:		Jazz Fest Minutes
	Episode:		Jazz Fest Minutes: 'One Mo’ Time' With Actor Vernel Bagneris
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2013-05-03 11:29:17
	Description:		The Show “One Mo’ Time” went from humble beginnings as a homemade New Orleans labor of love with a single scheduled performance to a worldwide theatrical sensation that ran for years. Its creator, New Orleans actor Vernel Bagneris, has loved the idea of putting on a show from way back. “Cousins of mine still laugh at the fact that they used to come over and I’d put on a show for them and play a little accordion and single a little bit with the few chords I knew on a piano and do plays and make them all do parts,” Bagneris remembers. Bagneris’ first professional theater experience came in the touring company of a show called “The Book of Job.” “Since you’re sitting on a bus or sitting in a van most of the time, I started writing ‘One Mo’ Time,’” he says. He’d have music like old Bessie Smith songs playing, “And I also noticed the interest from other people in the music.” “And I’d say, ‘Oh, listen to this one!’ And they would, and they’d really get a kick out of it, and I thought, you
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