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St. Peters was named for a Jesuit mission established there. [6] In 1895, music was a binding factor for the area, with a well-known cornet band. [7] Throughout most of the twentieth century, St. Peters was a small farming town. As recently as 1970, St. Peters had a population of only 486. [4]
The Preservation Hall Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization primarily dedicated to Preservation Hall's educational initiatives, including but not limited to providing private lessons to youth taught by New Orleans jazz musicians, coordinating group lessons with the Preservation Hall Junior Jazz Band, presenting workshops during Preservation Hall Jazz Band tours, or maintenance of the ever ...
The Municipal Auditorium is a 7,853-seat multi-purpose arena in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a component of the New Orleans Cultural Center, alongside the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts. [1] It is located in the Tremé neighborhood in Louis Armstrong Park adjacent to Congo Square.
Louisiana Music Factory's former location on Decatur Street. Louisiana Music Factory is an independent record and CD store located on Frenchmen Street in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Its specialty is local music, and is well-known among music aficionados around the world.
Store front of Grunewald Music Store on Canal Street in New Orleans in 1894. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, New Orleans was a cultural center, especially for the American South. At-home, amateur music performance as a form of home entertainment was prevalent, and so the market for sheet music was large, particularly ...
Incumbents and new candidates qualified for some Nov. 5 mayoral, aldermen and chief of police races in Caddo and Bossier parishes. Here's who qualified for elections in Caddo and Bossier parishes.
For a long time, Theatre de la Rue Saint Pierre was the only theater in New Orleans. However, in the face of competition from newer, larger theaters - Théâtre de Saint Philippe (1808) and later the Théâtre d'Orléans - the Theatre of St. Peter Street again went out of business, the building being auctioned off in 1810.
The developer was recently granted a variance from the city's Zoning Board to create 36 new dwelling units in a four-story building on a lot with 4,952 square feet of buildable land area where ...