Carling Dinkler
President
Custom Conventions
New Orleans
What are three of the most memorable ways groups can experience the musical heritage of New Orleans?
President
Custom Conventions
New Orleans
What are three of the most memorable ways groups can experience the musical heritage of New Orleans?
- New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and French Quarter Festival: The most comprehensive way to get your fill of all the wonderful music that makes our area so famous is a visit to New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The festival is the last weekend of April and the first weekend in May; this is the largest musical festival in the world and really does showcase the great music of our region the best. The festival is over 30 years old, and I was one of the original board members. If one loves music, this is a must. Another is the French Quarter Festival in April, with more than 150 musical performances on 15 stages throughout the French Quarter over a three-day weekend.
- Custom Events: Custom Conventions can organize a second line parade for groups. We can use a high school marching band, plot out the route and get a license from the city. We have blocked a whole route from the Hilton to Antoine’s, using music to get the meeting rolling. We’ve also done some mock jazz funerals, burying something like the old name of an association. There are mourners and singers. We’ve done it to open conventions, right at the ribbon cutting ceremony.
- Faubourg Marigny: The city is full of music in every neighborhood seven nights a week. My last suggestion is to venture over to a street that is in an area known as the Faubourg Marigny. This was the first neighborhood after the French Quarter. The main street is Frenchman, and there are at least six different music clubs to choose from. Snug Harbor is the most famous, along with another called Cafe Brasil.