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"Trumpeter Louis Armstrong would have turned 111 on Saturday, and although he wasn't around to celebrate the event, hundreds of others gathered to honor the jazz legend at Satchmo Summerfest.Sunday was the culminating day of the world's only festival in Armstrong's name. In the streets of Treme, a spirited, traditional second line parade followed the standing room only Jazz Mass at St. Augustine Church.Blocks away in the French Quarter, music, fun and authentic New Orleans cuisine brought people together for good times at the Louisiana State Museum's Old United States Mint.\"The food, always the food, that's the best part of the festival,\" said festival-goer Jawon Talley. \"I'm out here every year, each festival just about. French Quarter po' boy, I'm there. It's always the food.\"The Gray family of Raleigh remembered the troubling times for New Orleanians that were displaced during hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.\"We were helping and actually helped some of them find location in Raleigh, North Carolina, so they always invited us to come back to New Orleans,\" said Ursala Gray. \"So we just want to come and see the city rebuilt.\"Stephen Maitland-Lewis of Beverly Hills, Calif., is a trustee at the Armstrong House Museum in New York and knew Armstrong personally.\"He and I were pen pals,\" he said. \"It started in 1958 and continued till the day he died in 1971. And I have many, many letters from him in the Louis Armstrong Museum in New York, which I'm a trustee. They have the letters that I wrote to him, which he saved, so it's all very emotional.\"New Orleans jazz musician Kermit Ruffins closes the festival each year by inviting fellow trumpeters on stage for a tribute complete with cupcakes and a birthday song to Louis \"Satchmo\" Armstrong."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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