FQF - French Quarter Festival 4/21 - 24/2022

French Quarter Festival features more than 20 stages throughout the French Quarter celebrating local music and representing every genre from traditional and contemporary jazz to R&B, New Orleans funk, brass bands, folk, gospel, Latin, Zydeco, classical, cabaret, and international. New Orleans great restaurants serve food and beverages in Jackson Square, the Jazz Museum at the Mint, JAX Brewery, and Woldenberg Riverfront Park during French Quarter Festival weekend. It showcases the culture and heritage of New Orleans while also contributing to the economic well-being of the community.

Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival - 3/26 & 27/2022

It was in Congo Square that African slaves gathered on Sunday afternoons to practice their ancestral traditions. Their legacy lives on in our Treme Creole Gumbo / Congo Square Rhythms Festival, a free event that celebrates the music, food, and dance of our forebears, creating an event that is fun for the whole family.

We’ve combined two of our favorite festivals into one! The Treme Creole Gumbo and Congo Square Rhythms festivals sit on the outskirts of the French Quarter in Tremé, celebrating the neighborhood as a key proving ground in the birthplace of jazz!

Congo Square Rhythms Festival - 3/26 -27/2022

It was in Congo Square that African slaves gathered on Sunday afternoons to practice their ancestral traditions. Their legacy lives on in our Treme Creole Gumbo / Congo Square Rhythms Festival, a free event that celebrates the music, food, and dance of our forebears, creating an event that is fun for the whole family.

We’ve combined two of our favorite festivals into one! The Treme Creole Gumbo and Congo Square Rhythms festivals sit on the outskirts of the French Quarter in Tremé, celebrating the neighborhood as a key proving ground in the birthplace of jazz!

BUKU Music + Art Project 3/25 - 26/2022

BUKU Music + Art Project is a two-day music and arts festival founded in 2012 and held at Mardi Gras World. BUKU considers itself to be a boutique event that delivers a big festival punch without compromising its house-party vibe. BUKI describes itself a follows: vibrant music and art festival meets underground warehouse party celebrating the progressive subculture of New Orleans. It’s a New Orleans playground … the lines between fan and performer are blurred … am I looking at art or sitting on its? Does it matter? Let go and immerse yourself in: BUKULTURE! Music and art feel different like this.

The Axeman of New Orleans

The Axeman was a serial killer who terrorized the New Orleans area from May 1918 to October 1919, and whose vicious attacks left six people dead and six more severely injured. Mainly targeting Italian immigrants and Italian-Americans, the serial killer usually attacked with an axe, often belonging to the victims themselves. The Axeman sent a letter to the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans which was published on March 16, 1919, threatening to kill again on March 19 at 12:15 am, if he discovered any household not playing jazz music at that time. That night all of New Orleans' dance halls were filled to capacity, and bands played jazz at parties throughout New Orleans. There were no murders that night. To this day the murderer’s identity remains unknown and his crime spree stopped as mysteriously as it had started.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!