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"Barbara Bush 9.5.05" is from the album Katrina Ballads by Ted Hearne. The text in "Barbara Bush 9.5.05" is taken from an interview on American Public Media's Marketplace after Barbara visited Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome.

Produced and Directed by Satan's Pearl Horses

KATRINA BALLADS is an hour-long song cycle by Ted Hearne, performed by 5 singers and a band of 11 musicians. Drawn entirely from primary source-texts from the week following Hurricane Katrina - including everything from first-person testimonies of survivors to George W. Bush’s infamous “heckuva job” – Katrina Ballads calls us to remember our experiences during that week in August and September 2005. Like American music and New Orleans itself, Katrina Ballads is an omnivorous and multistylistic work.

Katrina Ballads by Ted Hearne www.tedhearne.com

Released on New Amsterdam Records Produced by Lawson White Download Album: www.newamsterdamrecords.com

Played by: Chris Coletti, trumpet Abigail Fischer, singer David Hanlon, piano Ted Hearne, conductor/singer Kelli Kathman, flute Nathan Koci, horn Taylor Levine, electric guitar Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin Eileen Mack, clarinet David Medine, viola Jody Redhage, cello Isaiah Robinson, tenor Kris Saebo, electric bass Allison Semmes, singer Anthony Turner, singer Ron Wiltrout, drums

More information on the project www.katrinaballads.com