![]() Music lovers worldwide make the pilgrimage to the Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest), which takes place the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May each year and combines a few out-of-town headliners with the cream of the local crop. Spring and fall are the prime festival seasons (and the best times of year to be outside in general). If you've got a hankering to pay us a visit, but you're not sure when is the best time, knowing your festival options can make the choice easier - or harder, but in a good way. We have more festivals in south Louisiana than there are days of the year. ![]() And an audio survey of what’s going on in the city while you’re here.Frenchmen Street, the most concentrated district for local music.Mint, home of a preeminent Louisiana folk art collection Former homes of writers William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Francis Parkinson Keyes.The Presbytère, home of the Louisiana State Museum’s Mardi Gras collection.Street performance in Jackson Square and Royal Street.Bourbon Street music clubs past and present.Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts.Congo Square, the colonial home of African music and dance.Monuments of musicians and traditions in Louis Armstrong Park.We’ll pass the homes and haunts of great writers, see art hung from fences and gallery walls, and walk the paths of the greatest free show in the world, Mardi Gras.īesides sharing the art of live storytelling, your guide will help you plan what music and cultural events to attend while you’re in town. On this tour, we’ll make our way from the birthplace of jazz to the definitive strip of music clubs in New Orleans today. You can usually find them on weekend daytimes at Royal and St. Here is a video of one of our greatest street music ambassadors, Doreen Ketchens, who has been playing with her family in the French Quarter since 1987. ![]() We encounter and interact with street music performers on most of our tours. Many are also selling CDs if you want to bring the memory home with you.Īdditionally, the Crescent City Farmer's Market offers free, live music 4 days a week, with the market taking place on Wednesdays at the French Market in the French Quarter.Ī daytime tour of the French Quarter is also a great way to encounter some street music alongside some history and sightseeing, and we offer several name-your-own-price French Quarter tours per day. While some of these bars have covers, many just have a one-drink minimum, especially on weeknights.Ī note on budgeting: tipping is a big part of music culture in New Orleans, and often audience tips constitute most or all of a band's compensation for their time, especially if there's no cover.įor a self-guided tour of street music, try starting in Jackson Square and then walking up Royal Street toward Canal besides the music, you'll find plenty of cafes, shops, and restaurants along the way.īear in mind that most street musicians treat what they do as a career, but are not compensated by the city, they receive only what passerbys leave for them.įor this reason, it's worth thinking of street music as an affordable option rather than a free one, especially if you want to take photos or videos of the performers. Many Frenchmen Street venues serve food in addition to drinks and music, so it can be a destination for dinner as well as nightlife - and these particular venues are often friendly to an under-21 crowd until 9 or 10 in the evening. Frenchmen Street, located in the Marigny neighborhood, has the highest concentration of local-flavored music in town.Ĭoncentrated into a three-block strip just outside the French Quarter, Frenchmen Street is lively every night of the week, picking up steam as early as mid-afternoon on weekends, and has no mandatory closing times.īecause it offers so many choices in a compact space, it's easy to go to Frenchmen Street without a plan and make spontaneous choices about where to go based on what you hear. ![]()
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