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The Backstreet Cultural Museum – A Powerhouse of Knowledge |
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Celebrating Backstreet Cultural Museum’s 10th anniversary, museum director Sylvester Francis, a.k.a. Hawk Mini Camera, brings his life’s work to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The exhibit includes famous Jazz Funeral photography and memorabilia, second-line mementos, and recorded film footage of New Orleans’ funerals and second-lines. |
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Louisiana Road Trip
"After Louisiana, nothing else is real." Robert Penn Warren |
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Throughout the history of Louisiana, New Orleans has been the light at the end of the road for most travelers. Though its music, food, and festivals have made the Big Easy the ultimate destination, the highways and towns leading to New Orleans are swelled with the people and cultures that make Louisiana one of the most unique and diverse places in the world.
This exhibit, organized by The New Orleans Photo Alliance and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, contains images that depict the beauty and diversity of the great state of Louisiana. Submissions were juried by Nick Spitzer producer and host of American Routes, American Public Media.
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Where They At: New Orleans Bounce and
Hip Hop in Words and Pictures |
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“Where They At” is the title of a song generally recognized as the first bounce release, recorded by DJ Jimi Payton in 1992. Bounce’s signature beats and call-and-response chants are deeply rooted in New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Indian and second-line traditions. This exhibit seeks to document pioneering New Orleans rappers from the 1980’s and 1990’s, the period when bounce music melded and interplayed with lyrical hip-hop and gangsta rap in New Orleans. Thus was born a unique, hybrid Crescent City hip-hop sound – the newest branch of Southern roots music. |
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Love, Jazz Fest Style |
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Nothing says LOVE more than a wedding at Jazz Fest! Wedding ceremonies are pivotal events in our lives and it is a testament to the spirit of Jazz Fest that so many have chosen to have their weddings at the Fair Grounds. This exhibit explores various wedding ceremonies and features images from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive’s new and growing collection of Jazz Fest Weddings.
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City of Drummers:
Early New Orleans Jazz Drummers |
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A traveling exhibit by the Louisiana State Museum, City of Drummers: Early New Orleans Jazz Drummers features historic photographs of notable New Orleans jazz drummers from the 1940s to the 1960s from the Louisiana State Museum’s Jazz Collection. Honoring the rich history of drumming in the birthplace of jazz, the photographs include images of “Baby” Dodds, Ray Bauduc, Paul Barbarin, “Papa” Jack Laine, “Zutty” Singleton, “Cie” Frazier, Barry Martyn and other greats. |
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The Art and Social Commentary
of Clementine Hunter
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A traveling exhibit by the Louisiana State Museum, The Art and Social Commentary of Clementine Hunter explores the artwork of Clementine Hunter, one of Louisiana’s most prolific and well-known self-taught artists. Living on the famous Melrose Plantation in Natchitoches Parish from the 1900s to the 1980s, Hunter painted scenes that reflected plantation work routines, the social recreation of plantation residents, church activities and other themes from her rural world. The exhibit features twenty works of art that illustrate Hunter’s witty and insightful artistic commentary on plantation life. |
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Unsung Heroes: The Secret History
of Louisiana Rock ‘n’ Roll
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This exhibit features rare previously unseen material from the golden age of Louisiana R&B, rock 'n' roll, pop and soul. It represents the first museum exhibit of its kind - a celebration of Louisiana's formidable contribution to American music. Unsung Heroes showcases the rich - and largely unknown - musical history of Louisiana's blues, R&B, soul and garage artists, who played a significant role in shaping popular music and culture for the last 60 years. The exhibit is presented and co-curated by the Louisiana State Museum and the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation. |
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