This program tours the front lines of a devastated city's cultural rebirth: offstage, where race is infinitely more nuanced than black or white; backstage, where which instrument you play can be a political statement; and joyously onstage, where the only thing that matters is music - and local legends make it cook.

A rising star of New Orleans jazz finds his sidemen scattered by Katrina, his flooded-out mom sleeping on his couch and his eight-year-old grandson clamoring to join the band. This program tours the front lines of a devastated city's cultural rebirth: offstage, where race is infinitely more nuanced than black or white; backstage, where which instrument you play can be a political statement; and joyously onstage, where the only thing that matters is music - and local legends make it cook.