The 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival picks back up on Thursday, May 1, for another four-day run at the Fair Grounds. With hundreds of performances, it's hard to know where to start. So ...

It’s dedicated to New Orleans musicians like Fats Domino and Al Hirt, featuring life-sized statues, music, and a laid-back ...

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, takes place from April 24 to May 4 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Chicago and New York quickly emerged as the primary markets for New Orleans jazz musicians seeking broader opportunities. Tom Brown’s Band from Dixieland relocated to Chicago in 1915, ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — For many years you’ve seen her signs all over the Fair Grounds at Jazz Fest. They’re in parking lots giving out directions, and they are by the stages showing who’s ...

Jazz musicians are the innovative artists who create and perform jazz, a uniquely music style born in New Orleans in the early 1900s. These musicians blend improvisation, rhythm, and personal ...

F or many New Orleans visitors, a stay is all about beignets, Bourbon Street, and, depending on the time of year, the pageantry of Mardi Gras. For me and my mom, it’s a trip down memory lane ...

New Orleans musicians NEW ORLEANS — Both New Orleans and Kansas City have deep roots to jazz. KSHB 41's Kevin Holmes wanted to learn more about the origins of the genre, so he sought out those ...

— The New Orleans Jazz Museum and The NOCCA Foundation, in partnership with The Gia Maione Prima Foundation, are excited to debut the 2025 NOCCA Foundation Concert Series, a dynamic new initiative ...

A member of the New Orleans Jazz Hall of Fame, he was leader at the tender age of 12, of the seminal Fairview Band, a brass band whose alumni have included some of the best known musicians in New ...

New Orleans in 2025 is a living history book, its streets humming with tales of resilience, culture, and charm that stretch back over 300 years. As spring blooms across the Crescent City, the mild ...

Previous Jazz International partnerships have taken New Orleans musicians and culture bearers to destinations such as France, Hong Kong, and the Dominican Republic. Esteemed artists including Herlin ...