Fasnacht

A Down Beat magazine article from 1938 praised her playing: "Fasnacht hitting 'em high on the clarinet and supplying the vocal swing."

New Orleans's 'Miss Dixie' Fasnacht Dies at 101 Stephen Miller 2011

Ms. Fasnacht was the daughter of a drummer and bartender.

New Orleans's 'Miss Dixie' Fasnacht Dies at 101 Stephen Miller 2011

Yvonne Fasnacht 1910-2011 On a then-genteel block of Bourbon Street, Yvonne Fasnacht presided over Dixie's Bar of Music, a New Orleans watering hole as famed as any in the city in the 1940s and '50s.

New Orleans's 'Miss Dixie' Fasnacht Dies at 101 Stephen Miller 2011

In the late 1920s, an all-women band boarded at the Fasnacht home while performing in New Orleans.

New Orleans's 'Miss Dixie' Fasnacht Dies at 101 Stephen Miller 2011

That winter, the band's sax player quit and the group sent from Pittsburgh for Ms. Fasnacht as a replacement.

New Orleans's 'Miss Dixie' Fasnacht Dies at 101 Stephen Miller 2011

Back in New Orleans, Ms. Fasnacht ran one of the few bars that welcomed gay patrons—and anyone else who thirsted.

New Orleans's 'Miss Dixie' Fasnacht Dies at 101 Stephen Miller 2011

It's Fasnacht (carnival) time, and Lola donned her best flamenco gear for the parade.

March 2009 2009

It's Fasnacht (carnival) time, and Lola donned her best flamenco gear for the parade.

Flamenco girl 2009

Her mother died when Ms. Fasnacht was 9 years old, and she was brought up largely by her older sister, Irma Fasnacht, who took in lodgers to help support the family.

New Orleans's 'Miss Dixie' Fasnacht Dies at 101 Stephen Miller 2011

Ms. Fasnacht, who died Nov. 13 at age 101, started out in the music business as a clarinet and saxophone player in touring all-female Dixieland jazz bands of the 1930s.

New Orleans's 'Miss Dixie' Fasnacht Dies at 101 Stephen Miller 2011