NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The City of New Orleans says it will hold a hearing soon to discuss the future of one of the city’s most endangered historic sites. Preservationists are beefing up efforts to save the boyhood home of the late clarinetist Pete Fountain.
He was a musical ambassador known worldwide for much of the last 60 years.
Fountain’s clarinet first echoed on North White Street in Mid-City after his childhood doctor told him to take up a wind instrument to strengthen his lungs when he was 9…