Ben Polser News Today

Pianist Tom McDermott is a native of St. Louis and a lifetime explorer of the music downriver here in New Orleans, across the Caribbean and to Brazil. Singer Meschiya Lake started out in Rapid City, South Dakota and landed hereabouts as a circus performer. Meschiya and Tom came together for us in the sonic wooden glory of an old Presbyterian church, now called Esplanade Studios.

4:57 Nick Spitzer: You know, I kind of had a question for the two of you. I mean, I know you do other things; Tom, you are off playing piano, researching, and Meschiya, I know you’ve got the band, The Little Big Horns, but when did you first hear Tom and what was your impression of him? Meschiya Lake: I think that must’ve been 2007. I was singing with a street band back then called The Loose Marbles, and the band leader at that time Michael Magro had befriended Tom; I mean I’d heard his n...