NEW ORLEANS —We are excited toannounce 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.
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.
The New Orleans Jazz Museum hosts the third annual Improvisations Gala on Saturday, December 5 at 7pm. This courtyard event will feature an exciting lineup of talent performing live from the Museum, with the option to view from home on Facebook and will be a culminating celebration of jazz music in New Orleans during the holiday season.
The 8th annual NOLA River Fest takes place the week of September 21-27, 2020, online at nolariverfest.org and on facebook.com/nolariverfest/live. NOLA River Fest celebrates the environmental, cultural, and economic impact of the Mississippi River and the land it built through live music, panels, and virtual tours that explore this year’s theme “Working on the River.” A full schedule of events can be found at nolariverfest.org
The New Orleans Jazz Museum recognizes the great need for live programming to support both the cultural economy of our city and the spirit of our community. We hope you enjoy our many virtual offerings, which are free and available to everyone on our Facebook page.
Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser, the Louisiana State Museum, and the New Orleans Jazz Museum are proud to announce the Gia Maione Prima Foundation’s generous support of its Education Outreach Program. The $25,000 award will assist the New Orleans Jazz Museum in facilitating distance learning opportunities for students and teachers in the New Orleans community.
Given the realities of the our current situation, I have been thinking of the people that we have lost in recent weeks. This is not the first epidemic that has ravaged New Orleans.
Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser announced all nine state museum facilities across Louisiana will temporarily close to aid in the prevention of the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
As we begin a new decade, we look forward to further expansion and the build out of the first phase of our permanent exhibit, on the history of New Orleans jazz.
Join us at the New Orleans Jazz Museum from Wednesday, January 15, 2020 through Sunday, January 19, 2020 for the Danny Barker Banjo and Guitar Festival, five days of great talk, music, and more in celebration of the life and legacy of NEA Jazz Master Danny Barker.
The New Orleans Jazz Museum will debut a new exhibition, “New Orleans Music Observed: The Art of Noel Rockmore and Emilie Rhys” on Thursday, January 30, 2020. This new exhibition brings together for the first time the musical portraits of acclaimed artists Noel Rockmore and Emilie Rhys.
It’s national violin day! This nineteenth-century Maline belonged to Adolphe Barthelemy Dantonet (1833-1894), a former employee of the U.S. Mint. Dantonet played violin and cello for the French Opera House, and he even formed an orchestra with his fellow Mint employees.
On December 7, 2019, the New Orleans Jazz Museum will publicly unveil a sculpture for their new Sculpture Garden, The Bass Player, by legendary musician and artist Herb Alpert. In addition, Alpert and his wife Lani Hall, through their Herb Alpert Foundation, have awarded a grant to the New Orleans Jazz Museum to support the construction of the museum’s new Jazz Education Center. The grant will also establish the Herb Alpert Live Performance Fund for ongoing jazz education and live performances.
In 1961, New Orleans Mayor Vic Schiro declared November 12-19 New Orleans Jazz Week. His declaration was made at the official dedication of the city’s first New Orleans Jazz Museum, which opened at 1017 Dumaine Street on Sunday, November 12, 1961. To celebrate the museum’s opening, festivities began in Armstrong Park, which included the mayor’s speech and, of course, several live performances. Then, the ceremony wrapped up the way most do in New Orleans: with a second line.
The New Orleans Jazz Museum hosts the second annual Improvisations Gala on site at 400 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, on Saturday, December 7, 2019, from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. Improvisations kicks off at 7:00 pm in the Jazz Museum’s intimate performance venue with an exclusive Patron Party, featuring cuisine by Ruth’s Chris, cocktails and private musical performances by Grammy award winners Dee Dee Bridgewater and Christian McBride, along with Adonis Rose and Detroit Brooks.
The New Orleans Jazz Museum is thrilled to participate again in Ask A Curator Day on September 18, 2019, an annual Q&A with over 1,500 participating museums from 58 countries!
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans fourteen years ago, today, causing levee breaches throughout the city. The Lower Ninth Ward, where Fats Domino lived, quickly filled with floodwater, and the music legend had to be rescued by boat. The Steinway wasn’t so lucky.
The 7th annual Downriver Festival on Saturday, September 7th, 2019 celebrates the environmental, cultural, and economic impact of the Mississippi River and the land it built through live music, panels, children’s activities, and walking tours that explore this year’s theme “Southern Seafood” Festival events occur at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. Enjoy the last taste of summer with delicious seafood and other fare from six local Louisiana food vendors.
“I was born in 1900,” begins Louis Armstrong’s autobiography. “Mayann told me that the night I was born . . . was the fourth of July, a big holiday in New Orleans, when almost anything can happen.” Louis was actually born on this day, August 4, 118 years ago, to Mary Ann “Mayann” Albert and William Armstrong. It is unclear why his mother, who was just fifteen when she gave birth to Louis, told the young Satchmo that he was born on the fourth of July.
