NEW ORLEANS | It is Wednesday night in City Park and everything is still. Voodoo Fest will start in two days, but for now the unlit stages sit ready and primed. From Friday to Sunday the audience will throng in inebriated costumed mass to hear international mega-bands such as Kiss, Jane’s Addiction, Emminem, Lenny Kravitz and Widespread Panic.
Yet a smaller stage featuring local talent – The Bingo! Parlor – rises as a yellow and red striped tent at the entrance of the Voodoo Music Experience. Set among art installations and next to a small lake, the Bingo! Parlor combines influences of Tom Waits, “Hee-Haw” and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse to produce a tent full of musical vaudeville, of strip tease, and of New Orleanian-ness. Local celebrity and co-founder of the Bingo! Parlor Clint Maedgen explains, “(The Bingo! Parlor) is something of a family reunion… It is fun to shine the light on our friends.”

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