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Doreen J. Ketchens (born October 3, 1966) is a virtuoso American jazz clarinetist who performs Dixieland and trad jazz.She has performed at concert halls, music festivals, and U.S. embassies, as well as in decades of weekly performances in Dixieland's tradition in the Royal Street Performing Arts Zone in the French Quarter of New Orleans with her band, Doreen's Jazz New Orleans.
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum, interior view. New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum is a voodoo museum in New Orleans, United States. Its exhibits focus on mysteries, history, and folklore related to the African diaspora religion of Louisiana Voodoo. It is situated between Bourbon and Royal Streets in the centre of the French Quarter. [1]
Joseph A. Shakspeare, Mayor of New Orleans at the time of the March 14, 1891 lynchings; Eric Skrmetta, attorney from Metairie, Louisiana; Republican member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission for District 1; Jefferson B. Snyder, lived in New Orleans 1893–1897; later district attorney in three delta parishes in northeast Louisiana 1904 ...
New Orleans Volume 1 (Columbia, 1977) New Orleans Vol. II (CBS, 1982) When the Saints Go Marchin' In (CBS, 1983) New Orleans Vol. IV (CBS, 1988) Preservation Hall Jazz Band Live! (Sony, 1992) In the Sweet Bye & Bye (Sony, 1996) Because of You (Sony, 1998) Songs of New Orleans (Preservation Hall, 1999) Shake That Thing (Preservation Hall, 2004 ...
He owned his own club in the French Quarter in the 1960s and 1970s. He later acquired "Pete Fountain's Jazz Club" at the Riverside Hilton in downtown New Orleans. The New Orleans Jazz Club presented "Pete Fountain Day" on October 19, 1959, with celebrations honoring the pride of their city, concluding with a packed concert that evening.
Carrollton is a historic neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, which includes the Carrollton Historic District, recognized by the Historic District Landmark Commission. [2] It is the part of Uptown New Orleans farthest upriver while still being easily accessible to the French Quarter. It was historically a separate town, laid out ...
French Quarter Festival is a free, annual music festival held in early April, located in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 1983 with the first festival held in 1984, the festival features primarily New Orleans music, such as jazz, blues, and zydeco from hundreds of local musicians, as well as food from dozens of ...
Warren Harris Jr. (born 1961), known as The French Quarter Stabber, is an American serial killer who fatally stabbed four people, three of whom were gay men, in New Orleans' French Quarter from February to April 1977.