Armand St. Martin performs at Jazz Fest on Thursday, April 30th,
12:45pm-1:45pm at the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage on the festival
grounds. St. Martin's rockin' R&B piano-style will accompany multi-talented
1950's blues hit-maker Carol Fran, while they illustrate such hits as "Sea
of Love", "Leavin' It Up To You", "Got You On My Mind" and "Emmitt Lee", to
support the music material memorialized by guest author and music historian
John Broven from his newly-released book Record Makers and Breakers. This
special panel based-upon and featuring Broven's special appearance and new
publication, will be headed-up by writer Ben Sandmel, with Sam Montalbano,
in addition to St. Martin and Fran's music performances designed to
highlight the subject matter. Montalbano is known for booking bands for the
former New Orleans Catholic Youth Center and was instrumental in John Fred's
introduction to Cosimo Matassa which spawned Fred's 1959 hit "Shirley" out
of Matassa's legendary studio in New Orleans.