Preservation Hall and New Orleans Musicians Featured on CBS Sunday Morning

Ted Koppel visits with Preservation Hall Jazz Band trumpeter Branden Lewis, Preservation Hall Creative Director Ben Jaffe, guitarist Joshua Starkman, and Charlie Gabriel.

In good times and bad, New Orleans musicians have been schooled and raised in a unique culture, one that was severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, when the streets of the Big Easy were unnaturally quiet and empty, and much of the music moved online.

CBS Sunday Morning senior contributor Ted Koppel met with New Orleans musicians back out in front of audiences sharing their music while perpetuating a French Quarter tradition of street performance; and with the creative director of Preservation Hall, which was founded to help preserve a unique American legacy: the New Orleans jazz artist.

Watch the full CBS Sunday Morning segment on Preservation Hall, New Orleans musicians, and French Quarter clarinetist Doreen Ketchens on Youtube: