The Big Easy Prepares To Celebrate Its Tricentennial Year In 2018If you’ve ever been to New Orleans, you know that you emerge from it ready to tell your friends dozens of fun stories from your trip. It’s a city that’s made for memories, from the food to the drinks to the music to the silly things you did or witnessed at events like JazzFest or New Year’s Eve … [Read more...]
French Quarter Festival 2017 Dates New Orleans Quarterfest
WHAT: A free music, drink & food festival exclusively in the French Quarter of New Orleans, which serves as kid of a a Jazzfest warm-up for locals.WHERE: 23 stages set up all over the French Quarter from the river to Bourbon StreetSINGLES SCENE: Mostly New Orleans locals and a lot of them – more than 700,000 people attend. So the odds are in your favor, especially … [Read more...]
Jazzfest 2017 Lineup Not Impressive But Remains A Bucket List Party Event
New Orleans Festival Has Beer, Bands & Is A BlastThe 2017 New Orleans Jazzfest lineup is nothing to get really excited about, really.There's Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty, Maroon 5, Trombone Shorty and Harry Connick, Jr. That's good, but hardly anything to really make one jump up and run around the room and start calling and texting friends. Snoop Dogg does nothing for … [Read more...]
New Orleans Jazzfest 2017 Dates & Music Lineup Highlights
Stevie Wonder, Snoop Dogg, Tom Petty Among PerformersJimmy Buffett is in town! He played With Dave Matthews on Friday. Will he be playing Margaritaville on Saturday!?!?The 2017 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival features a full seven-day lineup with a music range that goes from Stevie Wonder to Snoop Dogg.The Week 1 headline performers are Harry Connick, … [Read more...]
New Orleans Hosts Reverse Mardi Gras Parade & Party
The Big Easy Shows It Is 'Always Open'When the good times roll in New Orleans, they roll for all, and in 2017 the city that hosts an incredible series of parades leading to Fat Tuesday held a reverse Mardi Gras parade. New Orleans tourism and people from all over the community came together at New Orleans’ famous Bourbon and St. Ann streets to march together in its … [Read more...]
Mardi Gras Parades 2017 New Orleans & Fat Tuesday
WHAT: New Orleans Mardi Gras ParadesWHERE: Uptown & French Quarter.but not on Bourbon StreetWHEN: Feb. 11-28; Fat Tuesday is Feb. 28PARTY SCENE: Outstanding; you can drink in the streets here, go in and out of bars, get beads from people on the floats and party with tens of thousands watching the parades.SINGLE SCENE: Fantastic. Think about it – a festive … [Read more...]