The first annual NEW ORLEANS BRASIL DAY at the NOLA Jazz Museum will be held on September 17th, 2022 at 9:00 AM CDT.

The festival will consist of day-long cultural and educational activities centered around the traditions of Brazilian music, dance, and food spanning the museum’s indoor and outdoor grounds. This year’s festival theme is memory, and notably, we will be celebrating Mestre Curtis Pierre’s cultural legacy and New Orleans’ first samba school /Brazilian-themed Carnaval Krewe, Casa Samba, 34th anniversary. 

This event is free and open to the public with lectures, workshops, cultural interventions, traditional food booths, and live music as well as dance performances, the NEW ORLEANS BRASIL DAY at the NOLA Jazz Museum is unique among other Louisiana festivals for it is as educational as it is entertaining. In its pursuit to raise public awareness of Brazil’s cultural footprint in the Crescent City, the NEW ORLEANS BRASIL DAY at the NOLA Jazz Museum offers visitors a trip to Brazil at the gates of the French Quarter.

Music Schedule: 12 PM-12:45 PM- Cissa Paz || 1 PM-1:30 PM- Da Truth Brass Band || 1:45 PM-2:15 PM- Herlin Riley & Friends || 2:30 PM-3:15 PM- Marcio Periera || 3:30 PM-4:20 PM- Geovane Santos || 5 PM-6 PM- Casa Samba & Friends