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Seller: TourNOrleans
(Historic New Orleans Tours, Inc.)
Seller Description:
Founded in 1996, Historic New Orleans Tours offers the only Music Tour in the world's greatest musical city!
Rough Guide USA wrote: "Among the high-camp, overpriced, and the plain silly, there are nonetheless a few tours worth joining: Historic New Orleans Tours offers professional, fascinating insights."
One of the tour's key sights, the New Orleans Musicians Tomb, was established by company founder Robert Florence's group Friends of New Orleans Cemeteries. Mr. Florence is very involved in the New Orleans music community. Among many other activities, he has written a play about Ernie K-Doe and is co-composing a score to an historic play with Harold Brown, Bill Summers, and Sunpie Barnes.
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Activity Information:
Activity Description
Explore the world's richest musical city, listen to recorded music and get advice on where to catch the greatest musical talent on this weekend jazz walking tour.
The tour route includes:
- Start with the Legends Park statues of Louis Armstrong, Pete Fountain, and Fats Domino.
- Stroll through the Tango Belt to the New Orleans Musicians Tomb in St. Louis Cemetery #1!
- Check out the remains of Storyville, fabled turn-of-the-century red light district whose parlors presented the likes of King Oliver, Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet and more!
- Visit the Basin Street Station and venture into Louis Armstrong Park, the location of Congo Square, historic site of African slave gatherings and the only place in North American where pure West African religious ritual and musical traditions were performed.
- View Perseverance Hall, the Sidney Bechet bust and the Louis Armstrong statue.
- Then see the historic St. Augustine’s Catholic Church and the Backstreet Cultural Museum, home to the outstanding one-of-a-kind collection of Mardi Gras Indian and Jazz Funeral photography, videography, and memorabilia.
- Enter the building that housed the legendary J&M Studios which created the “New Orleans Sound” with such New Orleanians as Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Ernie K-Doe, Guitar Slim, Dr. John, etc., and visitors including Little Richard, Ray Charles, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
- Learn about what is happening today at such clubs such as Donna’s Brass Band Headquarters and in the streets.
"All music comes from New Orleans." -- Ernie K-Doe
Meeting Location:
Near Bourbon St & Bienville St. (New Orleans, LA)
(Exact meeting location details will be provided immediately upon purchase of tickets.)
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