Festival-goers run in to find shady spots in Jackson Square after the gates open during the first day of French Quarter Festival in New Orleans, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The ...

Contrary to this myth, jazz music actually was being played by Creoles of color and black musicians decades before the creation of either Storyville or Black Storyville. Eighty years before the ...

There’s something about the way ‘The Big Easy’ city mixes history, music, and that “easy” feeling that makes it so distinct, writes Sonia Nazareth.

speaking the common language of jazz. It's that language — the soul of the New Orleans' music scene — that program managers at the Preservation Hall Foundation are hoping to pass on to the ...

While the Congo Square gatherings ended before the ... players. The jazz that emerged from the unique cultural crucible of New Orleans permanently altered American music and remains one of the ...

106 years ago, in 1919, there was a serial killer in New Orleans called the Axeman. Apparently, he really liked jazz. As the story goes, he terrorized the city between May 1918 and October 1919 ...

For the full music schedule, visit frenchquarterfest.org/music.

Josh Brasted/Getty Ed Sheeran debuted a brand new song and surprised fans in New Orleans with a pop-up performance! The 34-year-old Grammy winner stepped out of a black SUV in the city’s ...

New Orleans is the birthplace of Louis Armstrong and jazz itself. The city’s history flies like a contrapuntal melody above the heartbeat rhythms of America. “A lot of people like to consider ...

The New Orleans Jazz Museum has been an epicenter of the live music scene since 2016 and celebrates the origins, evolution, and continuing relevance of New Orleans Jazz and culture through ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has stood as a cultural ... With its original concept being that of a heritage fair, the event mixed live music and cultural elements that locals and ...