ORIGINS OF JAZZ​

2 hr. Walking Tour

$35.00 

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Start Location:  Historic Armstrong Park

                  701 N. Rampart St.

End Location:  Frenchmen St.              

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Come and explore the evolution of music in the city best known as "the Birthplace of Jazz." Home to Louis Armstrong, Buddy Bolden, Sidney Bechet, Louis Prima, and Sharkey Bonano just to name a few. . .

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You'll be guided through the last remaining sites of where Jazz, champagne, and romance reigned supreme. Learn about the people, the history, and the influences which contributed to the development of America's only gift to world culture... Jazz!

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ORIGINS OF JAZZ TOUR

 

OVERVIEW

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Long before the arrival of both the French and Spanish Colonial Governments, the indigenous population would be the very first musical contributors to the general area we now call the city of New Orleans. Join Tours by NOLA on a 2 hour journey through 300 years of New Orleans musical history, as we explore the origins of America's only contribution to world culture “Jazz”. Our Licensed Tour Guide / Cultural Ambassador will bring to life the stories, history, music, and the cultural contributions of the people who have called the city of New Orleans home from the very beginning...

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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

Excluded

• Drinks

• Food

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

• Tips/gratuities for your guide

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