Bruce Springsteen begins the tour "Seeger Sessions" at the 2006 New Orleans Jazz Fest

One of the most powerful concerts in the history of Bruce Springsteen and the Jazz Fest took place on April 30, 2006 in New Orleans. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival hosted the first stage of the Springsteen Festival Seeger Sessions turned barely eight months after Hurricane Katrina. The Boss has released a concert film featuring the complete set for free on its YouTube channel.

Springsteen's Sessions Band featured violinists Sam Bardfield and Soozie Tyrell, multi-instrumentalist Art Baron, guitarists Marc Anthony Thompson and Frank Bruno, bass player Jeremy Chatzky, drummer Larry Eagle, trombonists Clark Gayton and Richie "The Bamba" Rosenbergkeyboardist Charlie GiordanoBanjoist Greg Liszy, saxophonist Ed Maniontrumpeters Mark Pender and Curt Ramm and steel pedal and dobro wiz Marty Rifkin as well as singers Lisa Lowell, Curtis King Jr. and Cindy Mizelle. In addition, Bruce's wife and a member of the E Street Band Patti Scialfa took part in the tour.

The native of New Jersey was on the road in support of We'll defeat: Seeger sessions, an album full of songs by Pete Seeger five days before the Jazz Fest. "We went down the night before," said Springsteen, editor of Backstreets, last weekend at the Asbury Park Music and Film Festival (APMFF). "We went to Lower Ninth Ward and witnessed a lot of damage. Rock 'n' roll is at its best when the stakes are high. It's when something much bigger than you can happen. It is a music intended to fight against things, whatever they are: against troubles, against difficult times. It is a beautiful and fortunate day to be able to offer a small service to the people … it is one of my favorites, one of the five best of my musical experiences of a lifetime. "

"My City Of Ruins" was a highlight of the emotion and the video of the performance was screened at the APMFF. "What's good is that we have all the movie of the group at the Jazz Fest that we have just finished, so it'll be out," Bruce confirmed at Asbury Park and a week later, the whole series was aired on Youtube. Springsteen's setting was part of Jazz Festival organizer Quint Davis, described as "shared catharsis" because it was a time when the status of the festival was compromised due to the state of the exhibition grounds. Other highlights of the official debut of The Sessions Band (a few warm-ups at Asbury Park) include "How can a poor man endure such moments and live?" The Boss, dedicated to "President Bystander", a treat on "Buffalo Gals", the poignant "We'll win" and the finale "When the saints go for a walk".

Watch the performance of Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band at the 2006 Jazz Fest:

Together: O Mary Do not Cry, John Henry, Johnny 99, Old Dan Tucker, Eyes on Price, Jesse James, My House of Oklahoma, Mrs. McGrath, How Can a Poor Fend Such Moments And live? , We will defeat, Open all night, pay me my money, My city of ruins, Buffalo Gals, You can watch (but you should not touch), when the saints will go by