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New Orleans: Jazz Museum, Congo Square, Tremé
New Orleans, Louisiana, US · 6 stops · 12.2 mi (20 km) · about 37 min driving · 11 spoken stories
Explore the roots of jazz and Mardi Gras culture in New Orleans, starting at the Jazz Museum and moving through Tremé's historic neighborhoods. You'll see Congo Square where drum circles seeded jazz, the Backstreet Cultural Museum's Indian suits, and Creole dining at Dooky Chase's, ending at City Park. Approximately 37 minutes driving, 12 miles.
Photo: Infrogmation, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
From Frenchmen Street, New Orleans to City Park, New Orleans
The stops
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New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint
The New Orleans Jazz Museum is a music museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of jazz music. Originally a separate museum, the collection is now affiliated with the Louisiana State Museum. The New Orleans Jazz Museum is located in the Old U.S.
“Coming up is the New Orleans Jazz Museum, and it lives inside the Old United States Mint on Esplanade Avenue, right on the edge of the French Quarter.”
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Louis Armstrong Park and Congo Square
Louis Armstrong Park is a 32-acre (130,000 m2) park located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter.
“This is Louis Armstrong Park, thirty-two acres in Tremé, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter.”
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Backstreet Cultural Museum
The Backstreet Cultural Museum is a museum in New Orleans, Louisiana's Tremé neighborhood, founded by Sylvester "Hawk" Hawkins.
“Here in Tremé is the Backstreet Cultural Museum, a small house holding one of the world's most comprehensive archives of New Orleans Black cultural traditions.”
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Tremé
Tremé is a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. "Tremé" is often rendered as Treme, and the neighborhood is sometimes called by its more formal French name, the Faubourg Tremé; it is listed in the New Orleans City Planning Districts as Tremé / Lafitte when including the Lafitte Projects.
“We are in Tremé, sometimes called the Faubourg Tremé, and it is about as deep as New Orleans history goes.”
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Dooky Chase's Restaurant
lunchDooky Chase's Restaurant is a restaurant in Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans that in the 1950s and 1960s was known as a place for civil rights leaders to safely "meet and strategize."
“Lunch is at Dooky Chase's, and this room is a landmark.”
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Frenchmen Street
Frenchmen Street is a street in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is best known for the three-block section in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood which since the 1980s has developed as the center of many popular live-music venues.
“Frenchmen Street is where the locals go for music.”
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