1970 Jazz Fest Movies

Wednesday, April 23rd | 6:30 p.m. with John Pult and Band in a Pocket | New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint (400 Esplanade Avenue)

Tickets: $25, Members $15 (One Night Only, Tickets Limited to 100)

Join Friends of the Cabildo for a one-night-only screening of the Louisiana State Museum’s collection of seven different 16mm film reels from the 1970 Jazz Fest. Dillard professor Jon Pult will moderate the event with the Band-In-A-Pocket Jazz Trio performing live during sections of film without sound.

 Don Perry, one of the founders of the New Orleans Jazz Club and a former WDSU cameraman filmed the first festival in 1970 and donated the reels to the Louisiana State Museum (LSM) in 1978. The LSM digitized the films in 2012 allowing them to be preserved for generations of Jazz Fest and music fans. The seven separate films show artists such as Duke Ellington, Pete Fountain, Danny Barker and Mahalia Jackson.