River Fest 2025

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Written By Scott Saltzman

River Fest at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Photo by Scott Saltzman

 September 2025

For the past decade, this festival at the New Orleans Jazz Museum has offered food, music and educational panels to help educate locals and visitors alike about sustainability and restoration of the Mississippi and our coastal waters.

- photos by Scott Saltzman

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The kick-off parade started in Jackson Square, marched along the river and through the French Market to the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

Scott Saltzman

Photographer Scott Saltzman strives to create imagery encapsulating the feeling of a moment or time frame, to create a 1000 word essay with a single image. Scott has been residing in New Orleans as a freelance photographer for over 30 years. During that time,  his experience living, exploring and documenting the raw, albeit sometimes subtle, emotional energy found in live performance (and other avenues of life)  has helped him create an archive with some truly sentinel images of and for the times.  Some of those images can be seen here, here and on his website.

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