Blog: Barryfest

self-released, 2012 In the five plus years since songwriter Alynda Lee Segarra began the project, Hurray For The Riff Raff have always been a standout in the particular genre of waltzy folk-pop common among the groups of buskers and street musicians who've established formal musical partnerships in New Orleans.  In a spectrum that is bounded by the delightful Bywater orchestra Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship? at it's most baroque extreme, HFTRR's country tinged ballads have existed comfortably at the opposite, more modestly appointed end. While the band [...]