If you can swallow a sword, breathe fire, or create some similar kind of special moment there’s a special place for you in New Orleans. It’s called the Buku Music + Art Project.

Addie Olsen is the Director of Buku. She’s sold out the event for this year (14,000 tickets a day) and figured out how to stop people across the river on the Westbank from hearing the 5 simultaneous stages of music, so she’s feeling relaxed enough to have a couple of cocktails and talk about Max, graffiti, and India. 

When Addie was younger she had an unnerving experience in India within hours of landing at the airport. Last week, Andrew Duhon had a similar automotive altercation in Sri Lanka.

Back in the Happy Hour saddle, Andrew has tales from his travels and a song about a special moment.

Andre Waguespack loves cars, makes music and combines those inclinations in his professional name, Klutch. Klutch has a massive international following on Soundcloud where he reaches an audience who he has ample reason to believe are disaffected kids whose emotional touchstone is Pokemon. Klutch is creating special moments on stage at Buku and beyond.

Chris Kehoe pulls it all together.

The photos on this page were taken at Wayfare by Alison Moon.