20 Years Since the Domecoming
King of
Oak Street
The award-winning documentary about Frenchy that started rolling the night before Hurricane Katrina.
King of
20 Years Since the Domecoming
The award-winning documentary about Frenchy that started rolling the night before Hurricane Katrina.
Monday, October 5 · Saints vs. Falcons
Twenty years ago, Frenchy painted the night the Superdome reopened after Hurricane Katrina live from the Saints sideline. On Monday, October 5, he returns to that sideline to paint the Saints against the Atlanta Falcons again, live, as the game unfolds. Follow along as the painting comes to life.
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On September 25, 2006, the Superdome reopened for the Saints' first home game since the storm, against the Atlanta Falcons. Early in the game, Steve Gleason blocked a Falcons punt, and a city that had been through everything had its moment.
Frenchy was there with his easel, painting the game live from the sideline. He has said he cried walking onto the turf, and before kickoff he traded a low-five with Gleason.
“It's OK French, I cried too.”
Steve Gleason to Frenchy, as Frenchy recalled to Artist Waves
The Documentary
Filming began the night before Hurricane Katrina.
King of Oak Street follows Frenchy from humble beginnings to one of New Orleans' most celebrated artists, among the first to popularize performance painting, and shows how he and his adopted home city triumphed over struggles that included the federal levee failures and flooding after Katrina, to emerge stronger than ever.
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