A ceremony in the Congo Square area of Armstrong Park was part ... Also on Saturday, the Xavier pavilion is the setting for an art show and “Afro-Ecology” exhibit called "Medicine and Magic ...

Dozens of other artists will take the stage, too, and many have New Orleans roots, including Connick, Lil Wayne, Big Freedia, Trombone Shorty, Irma Thomas, The Revivalists, Tank and the Bangas, ...

From Congo Square gatherings to brass band parades ... This community-based approach meant early jazz developed not as an elite art form but as functional music deeply connected to social life.

Our streets, parks and fairgrounds fill with vibrant music, eclectic art, spirited crowds and ... My first food stop at Jazz Fest is always Congo Square. Three of my favorites (favorite people ...

Cage the Elephant, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Laufey will be on the Shell Gentilly Stage, while Tems, Patti LaBelle and Morris Day & The Time will be on the Congo Square Stage. The festival ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday ... the Middle East, Congo, Myanmar and South Sudan. In a prepared Palm Sunday homily ...

Royal Street dazzles with its art galleries and antique shops ... Community spots like Congo Square, once a gathering place for enslaved Africans, now host drum circles and cultural events ...

The religion remains vibrant in Haiti. Voodoo Charlie died of a heart attack in 2001, on Mardis Gras day: his memorial service, held in Congo Square, attracted hundreds of mourners, including ...

Photographed by Edward Buckles Jr. Styled by Megan Coates Many New Orleanians lost family photos, videos, yearbooks, documents, jewelry, art and other ... and in Congo Square, drumming in a ...