New Orleans Arts & Culture

New Orleans is known as a ‘museum city’ with 46 museums and arts and culture attractions. However, the arts and culture scene is rich in live music, all star bands, local artists, theater and many cultural festivals. Soak it up!

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Jazz Fest Artists Spotlight: Southern Blues

by Staff April 24, 2012 Arts & Culture

The blues is a huge part of New Orleans and Southern culture. From Muddy Waters to BB King to modern artists they’ve influenced like Gary Clark, Jr., blues plays an important role in musical style and story telling. There are many wonderful blues musicians, and even a tent devoted to them at Jazz Fest this year. Here are three of …

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New Orleans’ Sculptural Renaissance In Progress

by Sally Tunmer April 20, 2012 Arts & Culture

One needn’t look very far to see why New Orleans is an art town, or in this case a sculpture town, specifically. Since Hurricane Katrina, Sculpture for New Orleans has brought an impressive collection of work from local, regional and international artists like Louise Bourgeois, Mark di Suvero and Alexander Calder to multiple sites throughout the city. The landscape of …

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Jazz Fest Like A Local: Seven Survival Secrets

by Andy April 17, 2012 Arts & Culture

If you’re coming to New Orleans for the annual Jazz and Heritage Festival and looking for tips from locals, you’ve come to the right place for advice. I’ve been festin’ my whole life, at least as long as I can remember. Jazz Fest, to locals, is a celebration not just of music but of everything we are: food, music, art, …

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Broadway Pounces On New Orleans

by Sally Tunmer April 12, 2012 Arts & Culture

In New Orleans, you don’t have to journey to New York to see some of the best theater in the world, it comes to you. Broadway in New Orleans is just what it sounds like – all the leading Broadway productions like Lion King, Jersey Boys, Les Miserables and Wicked right here at the Mahalia Jackson Theater. Watch …

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GoNOLA Recommends: 5 Things To Do In New Orleans This Weekend

by Sally Tunmer April 12, 2012 Arts & Culture

Even though festival season has been upon us for a little while now, it “officially” begins today with the French Quarter Festival! What some people may not know is that with every major festival like French Quarter Festival and Jazz Festival, there is a secret locals’ festival that spills out into the night. All mysteriousness aside, that basically means that …

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Three Lovely Jazz Fest Ladies: Esperanza Spalding, Dianne Reeves and Janelle Monae

by Staff April 10, 2012 Arts & Culture

Esperanza Spalding

My main impression after doing some research about Esperanza Spalding, acclaimed jazz bassist and singer, was this: while you, Ms. Spalding, may reject the notion that you are a musical prodigy, many would vehemently disagree. Spalding, a native of Portland, Oregon, taught herself to play the violin by the age of five and played alongside the Chamber Music …

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Visionary Visualizes Sculpture for the NEW Orleans

by Mikko April 6, 2012 Arts & Culture

“We are a tank: steady, strong, moving forward,” he says. “We want New Orleans to be one of the top five visual art cities in the world.” Michael Manjarris sounds so motivated for his Sculpture For New Orleans - an effort to fill the neutral grounds of town with important sculptures – that I feel like I was talking to …

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Jazz Fest Artists Spotlight: Get Your Brass in Gear

by Elizabeth Pearce April 5, 2012 Arts & Culture

Brass band music is a sound that defines New Orleans, even as that sound has slowly evolved over the years. It used to be limited in its musical choices to dirges and stomps and brass bands rarely made an appearance outside of parades and funerals. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, celebrating its 36th birthday was, if you will pardon the …

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GoNOLA Recommends: Top 5 Things To Do In New Orleans This Weekend

by Sally Tunmer April 5, 2012 Arts & Culture

As another round of holidays approaches, New Orleans is at the ready to throw down in typical fashion. Besides all the wonderful food to enjoy surrounding Easter and Passover in New Orleans, there are also adult scavenger hunts and unconventional Easter parades (as if there were an alternative). There are also plenty of non-affiliated events to enjoy, including two street …

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Art and Basketball: Two Worlds Collide in New Orleans

by Sally Tunmer March 30, 2012 Arts & Culture

New Orleans artist Robert Tannen interprets the basketball in a different way than say, the NCAA likely does. Tannen was so taken with the form and function of the athletic sphere, that he created a series of drawings inspired by it, and by other sports balls used throughout history and the world. To coincide with the March Madness Final Four …

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Cajun New Orleans: Bringing Regional Traditions to the Big Easy

by Sally Tunmer March 28, 2012 Arts & Culture

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Often the term Cajun becomes misconstrued by the general population outside of Louisiana. It’s usually associated with face disintegrating spice and funny French accents. While that is true to a certain extent, those qualities are not what define Cajun culture. It is as GoNOLA Radio music host George Ingmire describes, a “cultural phenomenon” born and surviving in Southwestern Louisiana. New …

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A Strings-Attached New Orleans Festival

by Sally Tunmer March 26, 2012 Arts & Culture

The imagination of Pandora Gastelum creates an even deeper layer of enchantment within the bewitching aesthetic construct of New Orleans. The local artist and her posse of puppeteers reach into childhood memory and pull out a parallel universe populated by puppets. This world comes to life regularly at The Mudlark Theater which Gastelum owns and on a grander scale this …

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Jazz Fest 2012: The Music, Food and Art

by Sally Tunmer March 22, 2012 Arts & Culture

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People come from far and wide to attend the New Orleans Jazz Fest every year. Some die hard “festers” from other countries have decades of history with the festival, and you’ll know where they’re from by the flags they raise to represent them. For some, this is the preeminent event of the year in New Orleans, and this Jazz Fest …

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GoNOLA Recommends: 5 Things To Do In New Orleans This Weekend

by Sally Tunmer March 21, 2012 Arts & Culture

If there is any confusion as to whether or not festival season in New Orleans is upon us, this weekend will clear that right up. All of our weekend selections are festivals, each celebrating the music, food and people of New Orleans and abroad. There is so much going on this weekend that we had to add a “lagniappe” section …

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GoNOLA Flickr Pick of the Week: St. Patrick’s Day in New Orleans

by Sally Tunmer March 17, 2012 Arts & Culture

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! It’s going to be one rowdy celebration in New Orleans that any true Irishman would be proud of. The gentlemen dress in traditional kilts and hand out white silk flowers to the ladies as they lightly kiss their cheeks. Ladies rack up some serious loot from both the Irish Channel and the Downtown parades, because in …

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Jazz Fest Artists Spotlight: Irma Thomas, Ani DiFranco and John Boutte

by Staff March 16, 2012 Arts & Culture

It’s the hard truth that the music world is still a male-dominated profession. However, two talented and strong women have done their best to make the music world a more balanced one for all women musicians: Ani DiFranco and Irma Thomas. Though their sounds differ, they will both grace the Jazz and Heritage Festival with shows filled with passion and …

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