Nancy Pauli: Lengthy-time KW Dixieland Jazz Membership director remembered with New Orleans-style wake

The Kitchener-Waterloo Dixieland Jazz Membership held a rumpus New Orleans-style wake on Saturday, in remembrance of its long-time director Nancy Pauli. Pauli handed away in February on the age of 81.

“We wished it to be a whopping, happy-go-lucky, New Orleans-style social gathering, which she would have liked,” Wayne Pauli, Nancy’s husband mentioned.

Musicians carry out on the Kitchener-Waterloo Dixieland Jazz Membership on Could 28, 2022. (Dan Lauckner/CTV Kitchener)

Attendees mentioned they keep in mind Nancy’s completely happy spirit and the way she all the time helped enhance the temper of any social gathering.

“A really loving, heat one that simply liked to have enjoyable. When you actually knew her, you liked her,” Dan Rudow, director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Dixieland Jazz Membership mentioned.

Nancy was additionally a lover of Dixieland jazz music. Her buddies mentioned she was usually the primary and final one on the dance ground.

“Being up at 9 within the morning for the primary occasion and being final to go to mattress and having folks again for after events and issues like that. It is simply unbelievable how a lot enjoyable she may have,” Rudow mentioned.

Pictures of Nancy Pauli are displayed at her wake on Could 28, 2022. (CTV Kitchener)

Nancy and Wayne immediately knew they shared a love for the style of music once they met in 1995. They bought married on the stage of a jazz pageant three years later.

The couple spent 25 years touring to festivals everywhere in the world, together with not less than 15 journeys to Nancy’s favorite, New Orleans.

“We used to decorate up in our foolish costumes on Friday morning and go within the parade down Bourbon Road. Nancy all the time had her mug in her hand, with a beer, and we marched on Bourbon Road to the park and simply partied all day lengthy. She liked it,” Wayne Pauli mentioned.

‘It is simply unbelievable how a lot enjoyable she may have,’ a buddy mentioned of Nancy Pauli. (CTV Kitchener)

“It was her ardour in life to hearken to this music and be out with folks and simply have the group of music with these folks,” Mark Pauli, Nancy’s stepson mentioned.

The couple additionally ran the KW Dixieland Jazz Membership for greater than 20 years. It gave them an opportunity to share their love of music with native residents, whereas attracting new acts every week.

“Principally they got here from Toronto, however we have now a trombone participant right here in the present day from Ottawa. We’ve got musicians come from the states,” Wayne Pauli mentioned.

“She was the most important jazz fan that anyone in all probability ever knew. That is what they did each Saturday afternoon,” Mark Pauli mentioned.