Congo Square
835 N Rampart St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Congo Square is the most important piece of ground in the history of American music — the open space in what is now Louis Armstrong Park where enslaved Africans were permitted to gather on Sunday afternoons to drum, dance, sing, and trade, preserving the West African musical traditions that would eventually become jazz, blues, funk, and virtually every form of popular music that America has produced.
Frenchmen Street
Frenchmen St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Frenchmen Street is where New Orleanians go to hear live music — a three-block strip in the Faubourg Marigny neighbourhood that has replaced Bourbon Street as the city's real music scene.
New Orleans Jazz Museum
400 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116
The New Orleans Jazz Museum is housed in the Old US Mint — the only building in America to have served as both a US and a Confederate mint — and it tells the story of jazz from its origins in Congo Square and Storyville to its global spread, through instruments, recordings, photographs, and the kind of personal artifacts that make a music genre feel like a community.
Preservation Hall
726 St Peter St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Preservation Hall is a crumbling, un-air-conditioned room on St.
The Spotted Cat Music Club
623 Frenchmen St, Marigny, New Orleans, 70116, United States
The Spotted Cat is a tiny Frenchmen Street music club that embodies everything New Orleans jazz is supposed to be — intimate, sweaty, acoustic, and played by musicians who are so good that their refusal to pursue fame in a bigger city feels like an act of civic loyalty.
Tremé Neighbourhood
N Claiborne Ave at St Philip St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Tremé is the oldest African-American neighbourhood in the United States — a community that has existed since the late 18th century, when free people of colour in colonial New Orleans established homes, businesses, and cultural institutions in the area just north of the French Quarter.
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