PHOTOS: Jazz & Heritage Festival and more events

New Orleans

Vintage streetcars from the Garden District and City Park deposit you at the foot of raucous Bourbon Street and hotel doorsteps along Canal Street. Once in the French Quarter, New Orleans grabs your senses with flower planters decorating the quaint balconies of 18th Century French-Spanish architecture. Its a gumbo mix of impromptu Jazz, Creole seafood, gaudy antiques, collectible street art, legendary cemeteries and “laissez les bons temps rouler” attitude that goes from one Second Line to the next.

Cultural Sites
When they handed out culture, the Big Easy got extra helpings. Visit Xavier, Dillard, African American Museum, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Backstreet Cultural Museum … More

Restaurants and Nightclubs
Fall in love with Dooky Chase, Praline Connection, Olivier’s Creole, Snug Harbor, Mr B’s Bistro, Two Sisters, Brennans, Willie Mae’s Scotch House, Tee Eva’s Pies & Pralines and … More

History
Though molded by Native-American, African, Spanish, French, Acadian, English and Pirate cultures, the strategic location of New Orleans also made it a chess piece of war and statecraft … More

Second Line and Jazz Funeral
The notion of a Second Line and Jazz Funeral attaching musical traditions to social processions emerged in the early 18th century. One manifestation of this social fusion was West Africans combining … More

French Quarter
The French Quarter begins in 1699 when two French brothers, Iberville and Bienville, came to colonize Southeastern Louisiana. By 1704, Iberville built a fort on Lake Pontchartrain … More

Culinary Adventure In The Big Easy
When I think of New Orleans, I think of jazz riffs wafting through a sweltering French Quarter, powdered-sugar falling from hot beignets at Café du Monde and spicy Creole dishes … More

General Attractions
Bourbon Street, Royal Street, St. Louis Cathedral, Decatur Street and the French Market sound like they jumped out of novel. With one visit you’ll see and taste why … More

Family Attractions
Aquarium of the Americas, Louisiana Children’s Museum, Audubon Zoo, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Nature Center will have your kids begging for … More

The Arts
The Cabildo and Presbytere will always remain crowd favorites, but venture off to Musee Conti to reflect upon New Orleans’ bawdy past and see how New Orleans Museum of Art takes stimulate your … More

Shops and Galleries
Fine galleries in the French Quarter such as Harold Clarke Atelier and Stella Jones Gallery in the French Quarter, plus La Belle Galerie and a beloved bookstore in the community … More

Treme’
As customary for that era, white male elites chose a vulnerable neighborhood within the politically weak Black community to become a red-light district. With their brazen decision … More

Heritage Sites
In New Orleans, black heritage begins in Congo Square and Treme’, where today, its is shared with the world. There’s also a blackstory to the French Market, U.S. Customs House, St. Louis Cemetery #3 and … More

Mardi Gras
Loosely interpreted Mardi Gras means “Fat Tuesday”. It occurs any date between February 3rd and March 9th. For those unfamiliar with Catholicism, it represents the last carnival before … More

New Orleans – Birthplace of Jazz
New Orleans – Birthplace of Jazz is a fitting moniker for a city that married West African rhythm with European classicality spiced with Creole flavor in a district called Storyville. The Birthplace of Jazz traces its lineage to … More

New Orleans Blues
It has been said that the Blues has always been the idiom that defined how people defined music. It is the underlying motif of Gospel, Jazz, Soul Music, and Rock & Roll traditions that borrowed heavily from it … More

New Orleans Gospel
Like the Blues, early Gospel Music was A Cappella expression derived from traditions rooted in the African American slave experience. From that foundation, New Orleans lays claim to Mahalia Jackson … More

Innkeepers
Hubbard Mansion is a fabulous Greek Revival inn filled with intergenerational wonders and Victorian antiques. Beyond the wrought iron gates, this cherished mansion flaunts a four-column ivory portico … More

Trivia, Radio Stations and Famous Residents
New Orleans has over 35,000 structures on the National Register of Historic Places. Thats 15,000 more than its closest national competitor. Quite few are below sea level, like 80% of the city … More