The New Orleans Jazz Museum in partnership with The Jazz National Historical Park and the Musicians’ Council on Fair Wages Inc., presents Prime Examples of Excellence in Music: Curated by Jesse McBride, a monthly performance series sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.
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The New Orleans Jazz Museum invites you to celebrate International Jazz Day with us on Friday, April 30! The Museum will commemorate the 10-year anniversary of this UNESCO-designated celebration with a day-long virtual event on facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum. Programming will feature local performers, including school bands, alongside international performers from Argentina, Japan, Taiwan, France, and other countries. Through these programs, the Jazz Museum will explore the global impact of New Orleans Jazz.
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In lieu of traditional Jazz Fest season celebrations in the last week of April, the New Orleans Jazz Museum will offer a series of virtual and in-person events to mark springtime in New Orleans. These events will be hosted in addition to usual daytime virtual programming.
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On Thursday, April 29, the New Orleans Jazz Museum will open its newest exhibit, From the Fat Man to Mahalia: James Michalopoulos’ Music Paintings.
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As the New Orleans Jazz Museum wraps up another month of free virtual programs, we would like to reflect on a joyful celebration of Women’s History Month. This March, the Jazz Museum hosted a series of fantastic performances to recognize the great cultural impact of women in jazz music.
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The New Orleans Jazz Museum is in the midst of digitizing its collection of its over 25,000 holdings— the most extensive collection related to New Orleans jazz in the world.
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This February, the New Orleans Jazz Museum partnered with Tito’s Handmade Vodka to proudly present four virtual programs featuring leading New Orleans musicians and culture bearers in celebration of Black History Month.
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The New Orleans Jazz Museum has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to make its historic collections available online. Specially curated digital exhibits and hundreds of images that accompany the music New Orleans made famous are now just a click away at Google Arts and Culture on the web and on its app (iOS | Android).
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NEW ORLEANS — We are excited to announce the New Orleans Jazz Museum, through a grant from the National Park Foundation, is partnering with the New Orleans Jazz Historical Park to develop a series of virtual field trips that will be distributed to school children nationally. Part of the National Park Foundation’s Open Outdoors for Kids Hybrid Learning Grant Program, the $30,000 will be used to create a digital field trip component for the New Orleans Jazz Museum called New Orleans Cultural & Musical Connections: Culturally Responsive Field Trips for 4th – 8th Grade Students in a Digital World. Open OutDoors for Kids creates pathways for kids to enjoy, understand and connect in exciting ways by facilitating outdoor activity, experiential learning, and cultural heritage exercises.
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The New Orleans Jazz Museum is proud to join the global Giving Tuesday movement on Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 to raise funds for its programs. Donations can be made at www.nolajazzmuseum.org/fall, and the Museum’s goal is to raise $35,000 by the end of the year, providing support to our music and cultural community in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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