NEW ORLEANS — A second line honoring Art Neville marched through the Treme Monday.
Dozens gathered to form a second line at Fats Tuba Square at 5 p.m. on Monday, July 29.
Neville, the eldest member of the city’s first family of funk, founded and performed with seminal music groups the Meters and the Neville Brothers.
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Through 2018, Neville continued to perform, even while battling health problems. “You can bring me there in the ambulance, roll me onto the stage, give me a microphone, and a mirror where I can see the people,” he joked in a 2013 interview with Times-Picayune/Advocate music writer Keith Spera. “I’ve been doing this all my life. I enjoy it. Even the bad parts of it, the parts I didn’t like…I found out that’s the way things go sometimes. You’ve got to go along with them.”
In December 2018, Neville, who was nicknamed “Poppa Funk,” announced his retirement from performing as health problems took their toll. Earlier that year, Neville and his fellow Meters earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Neville did not travel to Los Angeles for the awards ceremony, however. That same year, his brother Charles died.
A memorial visitation service is scheduled for Tuesday, July 30, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Rhodes Funeral Home in Uptown.
A second line is scheduled to begin outside the funeral home at 3:30 p.m.