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Streets on the Table Episode 1: Allen Toussaint
In 2019, the New Orleans City Council launched a city-wide effort to change the names of streets honoring white supremacists. While the city implemented its renaming efforts, a clear need for an…
“Don’t Wear Your Good Shoes Up Here”: The Arcadia and Alamo Dance Halls of Prohibition Era New Orleans
In the 1920s and 1930s, the second floor of 1001 Canal Street was home to the Arcadia and Alamo Dance Halls. These dance halls served as a space for thirsty men in New Orleans to cut loose at the…
Chessé Family Home
There are three buildings still standing in New Orleans where it is most likely young George Herriman spent his childhood days: St. Augustine Church, the site of the Herriman & Chessé tailor shop,…
Lincoln Beach
Paper Monuments Project #020
Algiers Folk Art Zone & Blues Museum
The Algiers Folk Art Zone & Blues Museum, which is located directly across from the Mississippi River levee at 207 Leboeuf Street, was founded by Charles Gillam in 2000. A self-taught sculptor,…
Exchange Alley at Canal Street
This block on Canal street was the hangout spot for non-union white jazz musicians and the site where the Original Dixieland Jazz Band was discovered in 1915.
Louis Armstrong Park
Armstrong Park honors the local jazz legend and features public art works and historic sites related to the earliest development of jazz in New Orleans..
Danny Barker’s Birthplace
Musician, educator, author and storyteller Danny Barker was born in 1909 in the rear building at 1027 Chartres Street. At the time of Barker's birth, the lower French Quarter community was home to a…
The Lyric Theatre
New Orleans' largest African American vaudeville theater in the 1920s hosted many jazz, blues and vaudeville stars, and featured the John Robichaux Orchestra.
The Tango Belt
This entertainment district in the Upper French Quarter was a center of music and theater performance in the 1920s for both black and white patrons.
Preservation Hall
Preservation Hall - a concert hall in the French Quarter that began as a jazz performance space supported by artists, musicians, and civil rights activists in 1962.
Storyville District
A legalized prostitution district associated with the early development of New Orleans-style jazz existed from 1897-1917. Romanticized by early historians as the birth-place of jazz, this red-light…
The Eagle Saloon
As the site of Buddy Bolden performances and Louis Armstrong's youth, the Eagle Saloon is one of the most significant early jazz landmarks still remaining in New Orleans.
The Iroquois Theater
Louis Armstrong won a talent show as a youth after dipping his face in flour and performing at The Iroquois Theater.
Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson, also known as the Queen of Gospel, was born and raised in New Orleans. In 1995, the performing arts center located in Louis Armstrong Park was name in her honor.
Harry Macarthy and the Academy of Music
In August 1861, Harry Macarthy, also known as "The Arkansas Comedian," arrived in New Orleans to perform a three-month stint of "Personation Concerts" at the Academy of Music, a then popular play…
"Bonnie Blue Flag:" The Most Dangerous Song of the Civil War
The popularity of sheet music in the United States had reached its peak by the start of the Civil War. Well before the development of recording and broadcasting technology, the commercial music…
Bernard Walter Lomax: Prominent Figures in the Carrollton Cemeteries
Bernard Walter Lomax was a Mardi Gras Indian who lived from 1927-1955. In 1950 he composed "Shallow Water," a song that is still popular with Mardi Gras Indians today. The words "Shallow Water" are…
Music in Palmer Park
Music has played an important role in the history of Palmer Park. A band stand was built in 1923 and every summer a series of concerts was held in the park featuring military bands, marching bands,…
Cloverland Dairy
Although dairies are often left out of tales of New Orleans food history, they played an important role in early New Orleanians lives. Through specialty traditions like Creole cream cheese, New…
Carville, The National Leprosarium: Patient Life
In 1940, the patient population was between 400 and 450 and a massive renovation was underway. The improved hospital created individual rooms for 450 patients and the 13” thick concrete walls made the…
Emma Barrett: Jazz Pianist and Vocalist 1897-1983
Emma Barrett, a self-taught jazz pianist and vocalist, was born on March 25, 1897, and began performing in venues across New Orleans at just twelve years old. [1] Despite being unable to read music,…
Origins of Maple Leaf Bar
The Maple Leaf Bar, one of the city's longest operating music clubs, is a haven for local music and has been drawing crowds from New Orleans and throughout the world since the venue opened in…
Club My-O-My: New Orleans Vintage Drag
Club My-O-My was a female impersonator club that originated and ended in the French Quarter. It flourished after first being kicked out of an informal, after-hours home in a fur warehouse in the Vieux…