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  • Fresh Jazz/Old Mint

    Fresh Jazz/Old Mint

    In a city known for its uniqueness, the combined Old U.S. Mint and New Orleans Jazz Museum are among the most unconventional of pairings. Housed in a nearly 200-year-old building, the idea of one of the world’s largest jazz archives being kept in a decommissioned mint may seem incongruent at first. But the merging of…

  • Meet Me Under My Porch’s Flagpole

    Meet Me Under My Porch’s Flagpole

    New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is entering its 51st year. While last year’s festival had to be canceled, the 2021 festival is scheduled for October. This is good news for music lovers and for the city of New Orleans. This upcoming return to normalcy is a welcome ritual where friends and family unite for…

  • Creators of Culture: The History of the Faubourg Treme

    Creators of Culture: The History of the Faubourg Treme

    Few neighborhoods in the world can take credit for as many culturally groundbreaking events as New Orleans’ own Faubourg Treme. Though it occupies only a small area of the city, the Treme has had a mighty impact worldwide through the invention of Jazz, initiating the first Civil Rights movement in the United States, and by…

  • Preservation Hall: Where Art & Jazz Meet

    Preservation Hall: Where Art & Jazz Meet

    In a city whose culture is founded on art and music, nothing represents the collision of these two worlds better than Preservation Hall.  It has a history that epitomizes New Orleans’ zest for community and collaboration and continues to embody that spirit to this day. A Jazz Hall by Any Other Name            While it…