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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
Secret Garden Tour of the Vieux Carré 2023
On May 27 , five French Quarter home owners opened the gates to their lush and lovely hidden courtyards as part of Patio Planters annual Secret Gardens tour.
-photos by Melanie Cole and 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
The 2023 French Quarter Easter Parade
Formerly known as the Chris Owens Easter Parade – named after the late and legendary Bourbon Street performer who founded it – the 38th annual celebration rollicked through the French Quarter early Easter afternoon. Photographer Andrew Simoneaux also caught a pre-parade wedding that took place right before the Gay Easter Parade, the final event of the day.
-– by Andrew Simoneaux
The Gay Easter Parade 2023
The 22nd annual Official Gay Easter Parade may have been the third parade that promenaded through the French Quarter on Easter day, but the energy of both parade-goers and participants combined to finish the day with a fabulous finale.
– by Melanie Cole
St. Joseph Day’s Parade 2023
The annual St. Joseph’s parade marched a convoluted path through the French Quarter on Saturday evening, a long trail of floats, marching clubs and gentlemen in tuxedos offering paper flowers, plastic roses and commemorative garters – for a kiss.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Faces of Mardi Gras 2023
A collection of some of our favorite Carnival portraits, photographed in the Quarter and the Marigny on Mardi Gras morning.
– by Ellis Anderson
Barkus Parade 2023
Storyboard: The 30th anniversary of the Mystic Krewe of Barkus parade had lots of tails wagging. The parade members and their human companions gathered in Armstrong park and then paraded through the French Quarter on February 12th. French Quarter resident and photographer Andrew Simoneaux, who specializes in pet portraits captured the parade participants and canine spectators in all their glory.
- by Andrew Simoneaux
Holiday Parade 2022: “First of its kind”
We're not sure what we were expecting from a first year parade, but from the enthusiasm, the number of participants and parade-goers, it might have been the 25th annual.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Two Easter Parades Celebrate Rejuvenation, Honor an Icon
The French Quarter paid homage to entertainer Chris Owens who died April 5, in both the parade that is her namesake and the 21st Annual Gay Easter Parade.
The Comeback Carnival: Faces of Mardi Gras 2022
Meet some of the folks who came out in the French Quarter and Marigny neighborhoods to help make this historic Mardi Gras extraordinary in all the right ways.
Two Days After Ida
Hurricane Ida rampaged across South Louisiana, slamming New Orleans with a glancing blow that wreaked unprecedented damage to the power grid. Follow us through the French Quarter just two days later.
Secret Gardens Tour 2021
Storyboard: The popular annual benefit by Patio Planters of the Vieux Carré resumed with a tour of nine courtyards in the lower Quarter. Funds raised help the group produced Caroling in Jackson Square each December.
by Ellis Anderson
VOODOOFEST on the Blue Moon Halloween
Hosted by Voodoo Authentica, this educational and spiritual event has taken place on Halloween for the past 22 years. This year, it coincided with a rare blue moon that rose over the final ancestral healing ceremony.
Revel on Royal Street
In one of the first official French Quarter events since March, 50+ shops, galleries and restaurants welcomed guests on Friday, October 16.
The 2020 Up Stairs Lounge Fire Memorial Service
On the 47th anniversary of an arson fire that killed 32 LGBT+ people in the French Quarter, the weather reflected the mood of the mourners.
– photography by Andrew Simoneaux
The Up Stairs Lounge Fire Memorial Service
The Up Stairs Lounge Fire Memorial Service: On the 47th anniversary of an arson fire that killed 32 LGBT+ people in the French Quarter, the weather reflected the mood of the mourners.
-Andrew Simoneaux
Joan of Arc Parade 2020
Joan of Arc Parade 2020: The Joan of Arc parade, the first of the Carnival season, celebrates the saint's birthday on 12th night marching through the streets of the French Quarter.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
This Time They Won
The brainchild of performance artist Dread Scott, a two-day reenactment of the 1811 slave rebellion culminates in a march through the French Quarter - and a contemporary victory in Armstrong Park.
- by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
- photos by Ellis Anderson
King Toffa IX Visits the Vieux Carré
West African monarch, His Majesty King Toffa IX, visits the French Quarter as part of a United States tour.
- by Ellis Anderson