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FILE - In this April 22, 2020, file photo, pallbearers, who were among only 10 allowed mourners, walk the casket for internment at the funeral for Larry Hammond, who died from the coronavirus, at Mount Olivet Cemetery in New Orleans. Hammond was Mardi Gras royalty, and would have had hundreds of people marching behind his casket in second-line parades. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Pandemic, hurricanes top Louisiana news for 2020

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Debbie Fagnano, the calliope player for the riverboat Natchez, plays a 15-minute hymn and gospel medley, Friday, April 3, 2020 as a tribute to jazz pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis, who died Wednesday of pneumonia brought on by COVID-19. A steamboat company spokeswoman said that since the calliope carries a long way, the Natchez may play brief concerts on Friday as morale-boosters. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)

New Orleans calliope tribute for jazz great Ellis Marsalis

By Janet McConnaughey - Associated Press

This April 28, 2019, file photo, shows Ellis Marsalis during the New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage Festival in New Orleans. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Wednesday, April 1, 2020, that Marsalis has died. He was 85. (AP Photo/Sophia Germer, File)

Ellis Marsalis, jazz great, dead at 85 from pneumonia brought on by COVID-19

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FILE - In this May 5, 2013 file photo, jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. Marsalis, a jazz legend and patriarch of the Marsalis family, is stepping down from the weekly Friday night show he’s done for about three decades at Snug Harbor in New Orleans. The 85-year-old Marsalis will still perform on occasion at the club along with other artists.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Jazz legend Ellis Marsalis retiring from regular gig

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