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Danny Barker Fest + St. Joseph’s Celebration
Folks attending the three-day Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar Festival at the Jazz Museum this year had the happy option of popping over to the adjacent French Market on Saturday for a St. Joseph’s Day Celebration.
- photos by Melanie Cole and Ellis Anderson
Mardi Gras Day 2024: Lower Quarter style
Personally, our favorite Mardi Gras perspective takes place in the lower French Quarter and Marigny neighborhoods, the location of our journal’s office. on Mardi Gras day, the entire lower Quarter becomes a wildly spinning kaleidoscope of color and good cheer. The better and more inventive the costume, the higher one’s status for the day.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Dames de Perlage: Dame Fine Second Line 2024
On Lundi Gras, FQJ went behind the scenes in a historic French Quarter hideaway to hang with dozens of Dames getting ready for their annual day-long jaunt through the neighborhood.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Mystic Krewe of Barkus Parade 2024
Barkus met Barbie this year with a “Pawsitively Pink” theme for the 2024 parade, which rambled through the French Quarter on what turned out to be absolutely the Best Day.
- photos by Andrew Simoneaux
Krewe of Cork Parade 2024
Demonstrating exceptional stamina, the Krewe of Cork celebrates the world of wine, starting with a three-hour wine luncheon, then spreading all that good cheer through the streets of the French Quarter.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Krewe du Vieux Parade 2024
Krewe du Vieux’s creativity elevates satire to a no-holds-barred art form – which is why their annual parade is one of the city’s most popular Mardi Gras traditions.
- photos by Scott Saltzman
Bohème Parade 2024
Bohème is a relative newcomer to the Mardi Gras parade scene, but this year - only their fifth time marching – the absinthe-minded krewe danced its way into the “Don’t Miss” category of Carnival festivities.
- photos by Melanie Cole
Chewbacchus Parade 2024
Although the theme of this year’s Chewbacchus parade was “Nothing to See Here,” our album with 80+ photographs proves differently.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Joan of Arc Parade 2024
The Joan of Arc Project celebrates Joan’s January 6th birthday each year with a medieval procession marching merrily through the French Quarter. This year was the krewe’s own birthday - its Sweet Sixteenth. Happily, Joan’s birthday also coincides with Twelfth Night, the official beginning of the Mardi Gras season.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Patio Planters Holiday Home Tour 2023
The venerable Patio Planters garden club uses proceeds from this annual home tour to help fund the beloved Jackson Square caroling event. This year, seven French Quarter houses, dating back to 1818, decked their halls to welcome visitors.
– photos by Melanie Cole
Spring Fiesta Holiday Home Tour 2023
Five fabulous French Quarter and Marigny homes welcomed visitors on December 2nd as part of the annual Spring Fiesta Holiday Home and Patio tour.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Improvisations Gala 2023
This annual fund-raiser for the New Orleans Jazz Museum is one of the city’s most spectacular, featuring Jason Neville Funky Soul Band & Special Guest "Mr. P Funk" George Clinton, New Orleans cuisine and craft cocktails, a Sound Collage lighting display, exhibits and special jazz-related arts installations.
- photos by Melanie Cole
Children’s Hospital Holiday Parade 2023
A downpour drenched parade-goers and marchers mid-way through the second annual Children’s Hospital Holiday Parade, but it couldn’t diminish the sheer delight.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
25th Anniversary VOODOOFEST on Dumaine
Temperature drops and a restrained midweek Halloween date didn’t deter throngs of people from gathering for the 25th annual VOODOOFEST, a free day-long event offering an educational entree into the Voodoo religion.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Krewe of Boo Parade 2023
Krewe of Boo parade kicks off what’s become an actual season in New Orleans – Halloween. And when local imaginations lend themselves to the macabre, the result is spell-binding.
- photos by Melanie Cole
Southern Decadence Parade 2023: Hot Stuff
Despite the oppressive heat, the show did go on, gyrating through the Quarter to cheering crowds who were wowed by the marchers’ stamina, bright spirits – and minimalist costumes.
- photos by Melanie Cole
The First Mermaid Parade
On September 2nd, Krewe Du Fool – which puts on the annual April Fools parade – branched out this year with a new Mermaid-themed parade along the Mississippi.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Red Dress Run 2023
Although thousands of runners participated in the annual charity run, by the time they reached the home stretch the record heat had most of them walking.
– by Ellis Anderson
Dirty Linen Night 2023
Art lovers seemed unphased by the record heat during Dirty Linen Night in the French Quarter, Saturday, August 12. Perhaps the fact that 60+ galleries on Royal and Chartres Street participated, an air-conditioned island of art was never far away.
– by Ellis Anderson
Satchmo Summerfest 2023
A favorite part of the annual Satchmo Summerfest is the Jazz Mass at St. Augustine Church in the Tremé, followed by a second-line parade through the Tremé and Quarter to the New Orleans Jazz Museum which hosts the festival.
- photos by Melanie Cole