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What better way to start your morning in then with an authentic New Orleans Jazz Tour conducted by Tours by NOLA. A fully licensed Cultural Ambassador/Tour Guide will take you own a musical discovery of over 300 years of New Orleans musical history, heritage, and legacy. Our journey into the evolution of the Jazz cultural art form begins with a visit to the New Orleans Jazz Museum housed at the Old U.S Mint Building, located at 400 Esplanade Ave. Built in 1835, during the Golden Era of New Orleans history, it is the only building in the United States to have served as a mint for both the Confederate and the United States of America.

 

On the first floor you will find a small permanent exhibit of the technology used and the coins minted, while the rest of the building in dedicated to your journey into America's only contribution to world culture begins.

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For most people, Jazz happened in a vacuum, but for the pioneers of America's only contribution to world culture, Jazz  was a revolutionary thought articulated through sound vibration and immense creativity. This new  music called Jazz, broke all European laws of music giving total freedom of expression to both the musicians who played it and the dancers who would contribute to the Jazz Dance movement.

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DAWN OF THE JASS AGE

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New Orleans has been at the apex of musical and cultural art forms for well over 300 years. But it would be the contributions of the musicians during the later part of the 19th century who would establish New Orleans as the birthplace of Jazz.

 

From Native American musical  traditions and customs presented in France during the 1700's, to the rise of the French Opera House in the mid 1800's, New Orleans musical heritage has been influential in expressing the urgency of life lived on the edge of a river in the middle of a swamp. This blending of both vernacular and world music would eventually converge to form a new musical expression designed to exhibit the highest order of freedom both musicians and dancers could express at a time when the laws questioned their very agency. 

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Prior to the arrival of both the French and Spanish Colonial officials the music performed in this geographical locations served a much deeper sense of spiritual interconnectedness to the world around them and heir music] expressed the sentiments of a people It was pioneered by people who had long been denied their seat at the table and those who literally fed off of the crumbs which fell from the very same table.

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HIGHLIGHTS

 

• Discover the logistics of New Orleans, a city built on the edge of a river in the middle of a swamp.

• Learn about the history and the people who used the sacred grounds of Congo Square to commemorate significant events, and a level of express cultural freedom not explored anywhere else within the United States. 

• Traverse through a historic journey of the Historic  Faubourg Treme. The oldest African American neighborhood in the United States

• Learn about the history of the Cultural capital of the United States shortly before the Civil War. 

• Learn how the laws that originally ruled the colony (and later state) would help contribute to every aspect of creative black musical expression from Congo Square to the French Opera House, Storyville, and beyond.

• Visit historic sites i.e. Congo Square, J&M Recording Studio, the Hotel St. Pierre, and bear witness to the oldest building complex in the entire Mississippi Valley dating back to the French Colonial period.

• Your guide will escort you on a short walking excursion from the historic Armstrong Park through the French Quarters to Frenchmen St. in the Faubourg Marigny where you will discover more music than you will ever find on Bourbon Street again.

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Included 

• Highly trained and skilled Local English-speaking guide

• Entrance into the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S Mint

Excluded

• Drinks

• Food

• Tips/gratuities for your guide

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Cancellation Policy: 

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before activity.

Any cancellation by the client must be initiated by both text and email:

 

Text:

(504) 205-7246

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Email:

toursbynola@gmail.com.

 

We will acknowledge your cancellation via text and email.

 

Additionally, Tours by NOLA may cancel a tour due to weather or emergency circumstances. In the event "Tour by NOLA" cancel the tour, you will receive a notification via text and email.

 

You may reschedule the tour, receive a full refund, or receive a credit towards an alternative tour.

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