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NEWPORT - Barry Cowsill remains missing in New Orleans.
Friends and family have not heard from Cowsill, the musician who moved from Newport to New Orleans this summer, since right after Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast.
Cowsill, whose 51st birthday was Wednesday, left a voice-mail message for his sister, Susan, on Sept. 2, saying he was holed up inside a New Orleans warehouse. Friends and family believe he showed up on a CNN news clip a short time later.
But they have not heard from him nor has anyone seen him. His brother, Bob, could not be reached for comment but has been posting updates on the www.cowsill.com Web site. In a Tuesday posting, Bob Cowsill said Susan - who lives in New Orleans but had been staying in Nashville since Katrina - returned to New Orleans, in part, to find her brother.
Bob Cowsill said Susan went to the building where Barry had been staying but found it boarded up. She also, according to Bob Cowsill, checked out some French Quarter bars but no one had seen Barry.
Bob Cowsill said his sister's next step was to gain access to Barry's apartment. Also, he reported on the Web site that Susan Cowsill found her New Orleans home heavily damaged, though she did find her cat. Susan Cowsill, who just released her first solo CD, is expected to play Sunday in Fall River, Mass., at the Festival of the Arts.
The Cowsills rose to fame in 1967 as a family band from Newport, with top 40 hits such as "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" and "Hair" and have played several reunion shows in this area since the early 1990s.
The family is asking that anyone with news on Barry e-mail robertcowsill@hotmail.com or www.cowsill.com.
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