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French Quarter Fest 2026: Performers
More than 300 acts performed on 20 stages over the four-day festival, offering the best of New Orleans music up to blissful and appreciative crowds.
- photos by Scott Saltzman, Shawn Fink and Ellis Anderson
French Quarter Fest 2026: Festival Folks
The new stretch of riverfront park that opened just a week before the festival – with an enormous grass lawn, a kids’ play area, an enormous cooling mister and hammock hangers – offered two stages and plenty of pleasure.
- photos by Scott Saltzman, Shawn Fink and Ellis Anderson
NOLA Pride Parade 2023
The LGBTQ+ community, allies, and supporters danced their way through the Marigny and French Quarter on June 9th in the annual New Orlean Pride and Black Pride parade, leaving lots of rainbow love in its wake.
– photos by Ellis Anderson
40th Anniversary of the French Quarter Festival
Celebrating 40 years, the 2023 French Quarter Festival was a weekend filled with live music, dancing, and fun in the heart of New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood.
— Photos by Gregg Martel
Electric Yat Quartet: Beyond the Traditional
With a repertoire that includes jazz, tangos and contemporary hits – in addition to classical music – the Electric Yat Quartet goes “eclectic.”
—by Dean M. Shapiro
Fancy Footwork at the FQF
Fancy Footwork at the FQF: The traditional opening day for French Quarter Fest finds entertainment director Greg Schatz dancing with a very fickle future.
-Nan Parati