A wormhole to the French Quarter

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A Little Night Music

We crossed Dupont Circle after our staff meeting last night, marveling at how in D.C., even parks full of people relaxing are still somehow frantic. As we crossed the circle, we saw our hands-down favorite bunch of street performers. We don’t know their official name, but they are a squadron of joyous, soulful trombones with percussive accompaniment. They’re out there in the heat and the cold, performing a colossal public service by lifting the spirits of hundreds of people every night they perform.

We would love to interview them on the spot, but their mouths are always full of trombone. We have no idea who they are, why they do what they do, where they come from or how they got here ... but perhaps there is a wormhole in the fabric of space-time connecting Dupont Circle with an alley in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

From DCist contributor Jeff Simmermon