Upcoming Arts & Cultural Heritage Community Events in the New Orleans Area

Join Gambit & the Tipitina's Foundation on May 23 for

The 19 Benefit

for victims of the Mother's Day shooting

The 19 Benefit will feature performances by:

The Revivalists
Bonerama
New Orleans Suspects
Donald Harrison & The Congo Square Nation
Hot 8 Brass Band,
Stooges Brass Band, and more!

100% of proceeds from the evening's events will benefit the victims of the May 12 shooting.

Purchase Tickets Here

Donate to the 19 Fund Here

Straight from the trenches of the French Quarter, Sketchy Characters will invade One Eyed Jacks for ONE night and ONE night only. Join us as we take you on the edgiest ride you’ve ever been on.

SKETCHTOWN is a raucous sketch comedy spectacle that can only be described as “Outrageous.”

BOURBON WHIZ is our first musical web series based on the classic Wizard of Oz. We follow Dotty as she tries to buy alcohol on a Sunday in a dry county somewhere in Kansas, then gets denied and ends up taking some magical mushrooms. She gets whisked away in a tornado to the crazy old land of New Orleans. Be with her when she meets the crackhead, strippers, Liars, and Beggars, and Beer OH MY!!

COREY MACK will be the MC for the evening (CORYMACK.US) as well as live performances, burlesque, GOGO Dancers, and DJ Fayard!!

Motown Records and Casablanca Filmworks produced this fun, music- and dance-filled 1978 feature film about a wild night at a Los Angeles discotheque, co-starring Donna Summer (whose "Last Dance" won the Academy Award for Best Song that year) and The Commodores, plus early film roles from Terri Nunn (future lead singer of new wave rock group Berlin) and Jeff Goldblum, as well as the first major film appearance from actress Debra Winger.

MUSICALLY SPEAKING is a series of music-themed movie and documentary screenings, curated/hosted by DJ Soul Sister, and co-presented by Press Street, Charitable Film Network, and WWOZ FM. Free admission and refreshments. Contact info@press-street.com.

On Sunday June 2nd @ 5:00 P.M. The Friends Of Mount Olivet Church at 530 Pelican Avenue in Algiers Point are presenting a free concert by Esteemed Organist Maximilian Tenney on their newly renovated 1924 Möller organ.
Donations will be accepted to help defer the costs of the renovation. Festive Gala Reception to follow.
Contact 504-366-4650 for more information or visit www.facebook.com/MountOlivetAlgiersPoint.

As the premiere event of the series, University of New Orleans professors Steve Masakowski, Victor Atkins and Edward Petersen – with Grammy Award-winning Irvin Mayfield, NOJO, and special guest Ellis Marsalis himself – will debut big band arrangements of each featured Jazz Masters’ music.

The concert, which is sponsored by The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living, will be performed at the Joy Theater in New Orleans on Friday, June 21st; doors will open at 7:00pm, and the show will begin at 8:00pm.

A partnership with the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts (GRFA), the night will also feature The Rodrigue Steinway "Blue Dog Piano." The piano – painted by renowned Louisiana artist George Rodrigue and donated by Hall Piano Company – will benefit LSU's School of Music and the arts in education initiatives of GRFA. Rodrigue will also be in attendance as a special guest.

For tickets and information, please visit www.theNOJO.com.