Friends and family will raise a joyful noise on April 7 for Lafayette blues musician and all-around good guy Andy Cornett. The 61-year-old harmonica/bass player died Feb. 24 following a string of health setbacks. The memorial celebration will take place at noon at the venue Cornett made a labor of love over the last several years, the Feed & Seed Community Arts Center on North Grant Street across the tracks from downtown.
Musican-friends of Cornett’s are encouraged to bring their instruments to the celebration. In the meantime, donations in Cornett’s memory may be made to the Louisiana Cultural Economy’s Health Initiative, 101 Jefferson St., Suite 100, 70506. The Health Initiative provides free health screenings and other health-care services to Louisiana’s working musicians, most of whom do not have health insurance.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
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This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
Friends and family will raise a joyful noise on April 7 for Lafayette blues musician and all-around good guy Andy Cornett. The 61-year-old harmonica/bass player died Feb. 24 following a string of health setbacks. The memorial celebration will take place at noon at the venue Cornett made a labor of love over the last several years, the Feed & Seed Community Arts Center on North Grant Street across the tracks from downtown. 
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