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Uncle Lionel 2nd line route (click to enlarge)

Today, Uncle Lionel Batiste is honored with a second line and tribute at Sweet Lorraine's. It's also Friday the 13th, the prime day for Creepy Fest. Elsewhere, there's a  Bastille Day fireworks celebration, and the Southern Summer Comfort Book Tour reaches New Orleans. On this day in history, legendary traditional jazz clarinetist George Lewis was born in New Orleans (1900), blues guitarist Long John Hunter was born in Ringold, LA (1931), and swamp pop singer Joe Barry was born in Cut Off, LA (1939).

Uncle Lionel Batiste Memorial Second Line/Concert (Starts at Tuba Fats Square, 5:00 p.m.) Treme, Frenchmen Streeet and all of New Orleans pay tribute to local legend Uncle Lionel Batiste the way he would've wanted it: With a giant parade and celebration of the bass drummer's life. The parade starts at Tuba Fats Square in the Treme (N. Robertson and St. Philip), and heads out to N. Rampart, around St. Claude, then making a loop on Frenchmen past Unc's former residence at the Christopher Inn and back out to Sweet Lorraine's. (Parade route map pictured)

The parade will disband at Sweet Lorraine's (1937 St. Claude Ave.) for a huge memorial show featuring Kermit Ruffins, Kid Merv, Deacon John, Stephanie Jordan and many more New Orleans musicians. Suggested donation for the show, which will assist with funeral costs, is $25. Attendees are asked to wear white.

Bastille Day Celebration (Mississippi River, 9:00pm) Fireworks at 9:00pm over the Mississippi River to celebrate the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution, and the birth of modern France. Before the fireworks at 7:30pm, Galvez Restaurant hosts a gala dinner for the Alliance Francaise. RSVP 504.568.0770.

Creepy Fest (Checkpoint Charlie’s at 8:00pm, Dragon’s Den at 10:00pm) Punk and metal starts at 8:00pm at Checkpoint Charlie’s: The Pallbearers, The Sluts, I Hang, Disappointed Parents, Horror Cult, Dummy Dumpster, F’n A-Holes. The Greater New Orleans Krewe of the Living Dead Social Aid & Pleasure Club will lead a zombie walk. Starting at 10:00pm at Dragon’s Den: Interior Decorating, Hot Rails To Hell, Ditch Witch, Fat Camp, and The Worst. All of it is free.

Southern Summer Comfort Book Tour (Mudlark Theatre, 8:00pm) Five women authors are driving around the south in a van, rock band style, to read excerpts from their new indie-pressed books in bars and bookstores. They got started on kickstarter on a small budget, and will arrive in New Orleans today. The authors are Chloe Caldwell, Elizabeth Ellen, Mary Miller, Brandi Wells and Donora Hillard.

Little Freddie King (I Club, 8:00pm) With an incredible outfit and a guitar that can make you cry whiskey tears, Little Freddie King is one of the most beloved contemporary New Orleans bluesmen.

Bass Drum of Death (One Eyed Jack’s, 9:00pm) WTUL presents the garage rock duo from Oxford, MS called Bass Drum of Death (Fat Possum Records). Opening bands are DZ Deathrays and KG Accidental.

Rusty Lazer (Mimi’s in the Marigny, 10:00pm) NOLA DJ is mostly known as Sissy Bounce rapper Big Freedia’s righthand man, but on his own, he spins the sounds of New Orleans’ streets: Mardi Gras Indians, early jazz, soul and R&B from the 60’s and 70’s, and bounce.