Pontchartrain Lyrics

Lyric discussion by kirstinvgr 

Cover art for Pontchartrain lyrics by Vienna Teng

Vienna Teng did a concert last fall at the college where I work and in the conversation beforehand, she mentioned that she was playing around on the piano, playing the black keys with one hand and the white keys with the other, which led to a song about the racial divisions that were revealed in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina--hence the unsettling quality of the music.