New Orleans Music Tour
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Experience Highlights
Delve into the musical history of the area on this music tour of New Orleans. You'll tour the city on a comprehensive 2-hour walking tour that will take you to hear the songs and learn the stories behind them.
An expert local guide will accompany you on the tour through a dozen songs that reconstruct the musical heritage of New Orleans. The guide will have a wireless loudspeaker to set the mood and enhance the experience.
- Take a different and original audio-visual tour of New Orleans.
- Learn about the history and musical heritage of the area from an expert local guide.
- Visit the most emblematic places related to the world of music.
What’s included
- New Orleans Music Tour of approximately 2 hours
- Expert local guide
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Step by Step
This music tour of New Orleans will take you back in time and give you an up-close look at 300 years of the city's music and heritage. This is a 2-hour audio-visual tour that takes you into the historic neighbourhoods of New Orleans: Marigny, French Quarter and Treme.
An expert local guide will use a dozen songs to show you all the iconic spaces, times and genres of music in the area. He will use a wireless speaker on the tour to play the songs to provide musical accompaniment to the artists and places along the itinerary.
You'll visit the iconic Louisiana Music Factory, one of the city's typical record shops, where you'll be able to pick up a souvenir of the tour. You' ll also pass through the French Quarter's main points of interest:
- Danny Parker's childhood home
- Place des Armes
- Mister New Orleans and J&M Studios, known as the "home of rock & roll".
- Preservation Hall, where Sandra and Allan Jaffe spent their honeymoon.
You'll stroll down Bourbon Street, known as the most musical street in the world. Today, it's a favourite street for young people to enjoy the music and nightlife of New Orleans. Learn more about the immortal blues, jazz, gospel and rock and roll artists who have been part of this city.
In Treme, Louis Armstrong Park and Congo Square welcome you to America's first African-American neighbourhood . Here you can learn about their influence on the music and heritage of New Orleans.
Throughout the tour you will hear Louis Armstrong, James Booker, Fats Domino, The Meters, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, Buddy Bolden, Mahalia Jackson and many others who are part of New Orleans' 300 years of musical heritage.
