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Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee
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    • Recent Work
      • Carnival from the Ground Up Exhibit
      • 50/50 Print Project
      • Carnival 2021 (book now available)
      • Nature Boy
      • Culture Bearers
      • Mardi Gras Artist Brushes
      • The Ripening
      • Monogram Hunters: Blood Sweat and Tears
      • It's later than you think: Carnival 2020 zine
      • WINFIELD-19 zine
    • Main Projects
      • Land of Dreams (New Orleans)
      • Carnival Season
      • Winfield Overview
      • Urban Nature
      • The Woods
      • Bloomingdale Trail
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      • Rockwell Gardens
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      • Voodoo Fest 2019
      • Jazz Fest 2019
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      • Carnival 2016
      • Carnival Time 2015 (audio)
      • Queen Mercy
      • Iggy
      • Edwin Harrison
      • Monuments
      • Faces of Jazz Fest 2017
      • Indians 2014 (audio)
      • French Quarter Fest
      • Mardi Gras 2014 (audio)
      • Southern Decadence
      • Birdfoot 2015 (audio)
      • Birdfoot 2014 (audio)
      • Birdfoot 2013 (audio)
      • Halloween 2016
      • Jazz Fest 2015
      • Running of the Bulls 2016
      • Jazz Fest 2014
      • For Uncle Lionel
      • Chaz Fest
      • Never Records (sample edit)
      • Exhibit BE
      • Satchmo Fest
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      • Noise Ordinance
      • Mardi Gras Indians 2013
      • Jazz Fest 2013
      • Carnival Season 2013
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      • The Phoenix: Winfield 2017
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      • Winfield 2016 (audio)
      • ORDER - Winfield 2016: Flood Stage zine
      • Winfield 2015 (audio)
      • Winfield 2014 (audio)
      • Winfield 2013 (audio)
      • Winfield 2012
      • Winfield 2008 Lake Year
      • Loaded Goat Stage 7 set (audio)
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      • Kansas City Bear Fighters Stage 7 set (audio)
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Never Records is an art exhibit posing as a record shop and recording studio, and recently took place in New Orleans. Run by Ted Riederer, of New York City, Never Records invites local bands to record one song for free. The song is then put onto vinyl. Two copies are made one for the band and another for the shop. All this is done without any money exchange. Riederer has taken this project to London, Liverpool, Derry Ireland, and now New Orleans.

This essay is a sneak peak on a much larger body of work on the project that is still to be released. For more images and info check out:

NeverRecords.net 

the 100th song