Join us after the Making New Orleans Home Symposium on Saturday, March 10 at 6:00pm for Minting NOLA Music at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
This program will feature: Complementary refreshments, food trucks and vendors, a cash bar outside the performance theatre and a cash bar outside on the grounds.
3rd Floor Theatre:
6:00 pm
Performance by the Arrowhead Jazz Band featuring Peter Varnado, Ashlin Parker, GG Pender, and Robin Barnes along with National Park Service rangers. World premiere of two new compositions inspired by WWNO’s Tripod, New Orleans at 300.
6:30 pm
Welcome by Greg Lambousy, director, New Orleans Jazz Museum & Bud Holmes, New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park.
6:35 p.m. World premiere of “The Gift” written by GG Pender, in honor of Mother Catherine Seals.
6:40 pm
World Premiere of “66 cents to on dollar”, based upon the TriPod episode, “The Women who fought for and against the ERA”.
6:45 pm
Kim Marie Vaz & the Treme Baby Dolls. Professor at Xavier University of Louisiana and author of The Baby Dolls: Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition. Arrowhead Jazz Band performs music for Baby Dolls.
7:30 – 8:10 pm
The Trombone Shorty Academy Band. Intro: Bud Holmes
8:30 – 10:00 pm
Bon Bon Vivant, an Indie-Gypsy/New Orleans band playing original bawdy gypsy swing, dark ballads and up-tempo indie rock/dance music.
2nd Floor Theatre:
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Acoustic Jazz with Richard Scott & Bruce Brackman.
Outside Grounds:
6:00 pm
Join master Senoufo master drummer Seguenon Kone, originally from Côte d'Ivoire, for a participatory experience in African drumming and dance. You will drum and dance! Explore this mother culture of New Orleans that has tremendously influenced New Orleans music.
7:00 pm
Southeastern Louisiana Native American Program featuring music and stories from past to present with Grayhawk and Coco, of the Houma Nation.
8:00 pm
Join master Senoufo master drummer Seguenon Kone, originally from Côte d'Ivoire, for a participatory experience in African drumming and dance. You will drum and dance! Explore this mother culture of New Orleans that has tremendously influenced New Orleans music.
9:00 pm
Southeastern Louisiana Native American Program featuring music and stories from past to present with Grayhawk and Coco, of the Houma Nation.
About Making New Orleans Home: A Tricentennial Symposium:
The Historic New Orleans Collection will join the City of New Orleans 2018 Commission’s Cultural and Historical Committee to present “Making New Orleans Home: A Tricentennial Symposium,” Thursday, March 8, through Sunday, March 11, 2018. The symposium is the capstone of the committee, which is chaired by author and former Associate Vice President for External Affairs at Xavier University Sybil Haydel Morial and THNOC Executive Director Priscilla Lawrence.
Featuring lectures and cultural programming throughout the city, the four-day event will explore the 300-year history of how New Orleans came to be inhabited by diverse, vibrant people and how, in turn, the concept of home has been central to the life and culture of the city.
Comprising individual lectures and panel discussions, the symposium will be held at locations throughout the city, including Tulane University, the Hotel Monteleone, Xavier University, and the University of New Orleans. Additional evening events will take place at The Historic New Orleans Collection and the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old US Mint.