Gallatin Street Fest 202

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Written By Ellis Anderson

James Andrew wows the crowds at the second annual Gallatin Street Fest.

April 2025

In its second year, this free one-day festival at the New Orleans Jazz Museum features Gallatin Alley Records artists to the delight of music lovers from around the world.

- photos by Ellis Anderson

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Donna Poniatowski Sims with her just published book, Donna’s Bar & grill New Orleans.

Bo Dollis Jr & the Wild Magnolias

Mahmoud Chouki

Detroit Brooks

Detroit Brooks and Greg Lambousy, director of the New Orleans Jazz Museum

The George Brown Band

The George Brown Band

Kermit Ruffins

James Andrews and the Crescent City All-Stars

Cha Wa

Ellis Anderson

Ellis Anderson first came to the French Quarter in 1978 as a young musician and writer.  Eventually, she also became a silversmith and represented local artists as owner of Quarter Moon Gallery, with locations in the Quarter and Bay St. Louis, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  

Her book about the Bay's Katrina experience, Under Surge, Under Siege, was published by University Press of Mississippi and won several awards, including the Eudora Welty Book Prize in 2010 and the Mississippi Library Association's Nonfiction Author's Award for 2011.  Under Surge, Under Siege was also short-listed as nonfiction finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan International Book Prize, Stanford University Libraries.

 In 2011, Anderson founded her first digital publication, the Shoofly Magazine and served as publisher from 2011 - 2022.  She established French Quarter Journal in 2019, where she currently serves as publisher and managing editor.

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