"With Dylan, and to have this happen again means everything to us, " Julie Becker, a native New Orleanian, said while waiting for an encore from the folk-rock pioneer.

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The participants, who all have full-time jobs of their own, may have sacrificed their days off for a sleepless weekend of coding, but no one had to sacrifice being a New Orleanian.

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