New Orleans Music and Heritage Tour
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Trip Type: Walking Tours
Duration: 2 hours
New Orleans Music & Heritage Tour is the premier French Quarter walking Music Tour! Hear the songs, stories and learn about the immortals of Blues, Jazz, Gospel and Rock N' Roll as you walk in the shadows of 300 years of musical heritage. Learn about Louis Armstrong, James Booker, Fats Domino, the Meters, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, Buddy Bolden, Mahalia Jackson...
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New Orleans Music & Heritage Tour is the premier French Quarter walking Music Tour! Hear the songs, stories and learn about the immortals of Blues, Jazz, Gospel and Rock N' Roll as you walk in the shadows of 300 years of musical heritage. Learn about Louis Armstrong, James Booker, Fats Domino, the Meters, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, Buddy Bolden, Mahalia Jackson...New Orleans Music & Heritage Tour begins at Louisiana Music Factory 421 Frenchmen Street, the most musical street in New Orleans!
Meet your guide Keith (a Louisiana Record Man with more than 20 years Record Business experience) and he will introduce you to the culture of New Orleans. The aural-visual walking tour is accompanied by bluetooth speaker capability to provide musical accompaniment of the artists and locations along the tour. One of the first stops is Cosimo's Sound, 2nd Studio home of Cosimo Matassa. The former banana warehouse was home to masterful recordings that made up the "New Orleans Sound" as professed on vinyl by the likes of Allen Toussaint, the Meters and Lee Dorsey.
From this location we turn on Chartres Street and pay a visit to the boyhood home of Danny Parker. Along with his rambunctious and bawdy singing wife Blue Lu, we learn how a single man can save New Orleans Brass Band heritage.
Next are stops in the Place de Armes, Preservation Jazz Hall, a stroll down Bourbon Street to Mister New Orleans before we head to J&M Studios the "Home of Rock N' Roll."
Stops in Armstrong Park include Congo Square and Louis Armstrong statue. As we are in the Treme, America's 1st African American Neighborhood we talk about their influence in New Orleans Music & Heritage.
We cross over N. Rampart back into the French Quarter stopping at what some call the "House of the Rising Sun." Exploring metaphoric use of music in cultural storytelling.
The Royal Orleans Hotel tells of the heady days of Rock N' Roll when the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the Allman Brothers, Little Feat and Led Zeppelin hit all the haunts. Debauchery and music ensued.
Dr. John calls James Booker "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced." Hear why at the former Toulouse Theatre. Also learn another grand pianist popular in music today that was taught by Booker.
You might hear about Irma Thomas and her Grammy win or how the Blues were born. At New Orleans Music & Heritage Tour there are over three centuries of music, so deep it springs from within a constant river of song!
Meet your guide Keith (a Louisiana Record Man with more than 20 years Record Business experience) and he will introduce you to the culture of New Orleans. The aural-visual walking tour is accompanied by bluetooth speaker capability to provide musical accompaniment of the artists and locations along the tour. One of the first stops is Cosimo's Sound, 2nd Studio home of Cosimo Matassa. The former banana warehouse was home to masterful recordings that made up the "New Orleans Sound" as professed on vinyl by the likes of Allen Toussaint, the Meters and Lee Dorsey.
From this location we turn on Chartres Street and pay a visit to the boyhood home of Danny Parker. Along with his rambunctious and bawdy singing wife Blue Lu, we learn how a single man can save New Orleans Brass Band heritage.
Next are stops in the Place de Armes, Preservation Jazz Hall, a stroll down Bourbon Street to Mister New Orleans before we head to J&M Studios the "Home of Rock N' Roll."
Stops in Armstrong Park include Congo Square and Louis Armstrong statue. As we are in the Treme, America's 1st African American Neighborhood we talk about their influence in New Orleans Music & Heritage.
We cross over N. Rampart back into the French Quarter stopping at what some call the "House of the Rising Sun." Exploring metaphoric use of music in cultural storytelling.
The Royal Orleans Hotel tells of the heady days of Rock N' Roll when the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the Allman Brothers, Little Feat and Led Zeppelin hit all the haunts. Debauchery and music ensued.
Dr. John calls James Booker "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced." Hear why at the former Toulouse Theatre. Also learn another grand pianist popular in music today that was taught by Booker.
You might hear about Irma Thomas and her Grammy win or how the Blues were born. At New Orleans Music & Heritage Tour there are over three centuries of music, so deep it springs from within a constant river of song!
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