Jazz & Heritage Presenting
2024-2025 Jazz & Heritage Presenting Recipients
| Event Type | Organization Name | Project/Event Name | City | |
| 1 | Cultural Heritage | Barataria Terrebonne Estuary Foundation | Cajun Music Preservation Society at Paddle Bayou Lafourche | Thibodaux |
| 4 | Cultural Heritage | Bayou Regional Arts Council | Bayou Arts Fest | Houma |
| 5 | Cultural Heritage | Krewe of Red Beans | Culture Campout 2025 | New Orleans |
| 6 | Cultural Heritage | Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective | Festival of Words 2024 | Lafayette |
| 7 | Cultural Heritage | Friends of the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Foundation | Rougarou Fest 2024 | Houma |
| 8 | Cultural Heritage | Gallery One Ellleven | ART of the EAT III – LOUISIANA EATS | Leesville |
| 9 | Cultural Heritage | Lafourche Education Foundation | Louisiana King Cake Festival | Thibodaux |
| 10 | Cultural Heritage | Louisiana Landmarks Society | The Pitot Presents: Holiday Market & Melodies | New Orleans |
| 11 | Cultural Heritage | Louisiana Pecan Festival | Louisiana Pecan Festival | Colfax |
| 12 | Cultural Heritage | New Orleans Recreation Department Foundation | Holiday in the Park | New Orleans |
| 13 | Cultural Heritage | N’Fungola Sibo African Dance and Drum Company, Inc. | New Orleans Music and African Dance Spectacle (NOMAADS) 2025 | New Orleans |
| 16 | Dance | Artivism Dance Theatre | Gumbo Cypher | New Orleans |
| 17 | Dance | Ballet Louisiane | The Nutcracker | New Orleans |
| 19 | Dance | Culu Childrens Traditional African Dance Company | A Visit to Africa | New Orleans |
| 20 | Dance | Hysell Ballet Arts | Ballet Hysell 2024-2025 Season | New Orleans |
| 22 | Dance | Mélange Dance Company | Speak(Easy) | New Orleans |
| 23 | Dance | New Orleans Ballet Theatre | Giselle May 2025 | New Orleans |
| 24 | Dance | N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company | M’Batle Su – Going Home | New Orleans |
| 25 | Dance | NOLA Contemporary Ballet | Spring Dance Fest | Slidell |
| 29 | Multidisciplinary | Friends of A Studio in the Woods | FORESTival: A Celebration of Art and Nature | New Orleans |
| 31 | Multidisciplinary | Junebug Productions, Inc. | Front Page: The Encore | New Orleans |
| 32 | Multidisciplinary | KID smART | Community Outreach: BEST FEST & ART JAM | New Orleans |
| 33 | Multidisciplinary | Krewe of Black & Gold | Spirit of Louisiana Second Line and Concert: A Katrina Commemoration | Slidell |
| 34 | Multidisciplinary | Krewe of Erin | Celtic Heritage Festival | Ponchatoula |
| 35 | Multidisciplinary | Mamacita Social Aid Pleasure Club Inc | From Congolese “Nkumba” to Rumba: Rumbling from New Orleans Musical Past-Chateau Flamenco Festival | New Orleans |
| 36 | Multidisciplinary | Mondo Bizarro Productions | Mondo Bizarro Presents | New Orleans |
| 37 | Multidisciplinary | Musicians for Music | Ecos Latinos Live Performance Series | New Orleans |
| 38 | Multidisciplinary | New Orleans Arts District Association, Inc. | White Linen Night | New Orleans |
| 39 | Multidisciplinary | New Orleans Opera Association | Food, Traditions, and Opera | New Orleans |
| 40 | Multidisciplinary | New Resonance Orchestra | Nocturne | New Orleans |
| 41 | Multidisciplinary | Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University | If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future | New Orleans |
| 42 | Multidisciplinary | Old Algiers Main Street Corporation | Make it in Old Algiers 2024 | New Orleans |
| 43 | Multidisciplinary | One Book One New Orleans | Words & Music Festival 2024 | New Orleans |
| 44 | Multidisciplinary | PATOIS Festival | 2025 Patois Festival | New Orleans |
| 45 | Multidisciplinary | Performing Arts Serving Acadiana | Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. | Lafayette |
| 46 | Multidisciplinary | Scottie Beans Theatre Productions | A Piece of Louisiana For Your Heart Showcase | Church Point |
| 47 | Multidisciplinary | SUN CHDO | Louisiana Okra, Music & Art Festival | Carencro |
| 48 | Multidisciplinary | Twin Steeples, Inc. | Twin Steeples Village Arts Market | Ponchatoula |
| 50 | Music Concert | Acadiana Center for the Arts | Louisiana Crossroads presents: Keep Walking, The Horace Trahan Story | Lafayette |
| 51 | Music Concert | Alexandria Museum of Art | Jourdan Thibodeaux Trio at AMoA | Alexandria |
| 52 | Music Concert | Algiers Economic Development Foundation | Algiers Holiday Bonfire & Concert | New Orleans |
| 53 | Music Concert | Contemporary Arts Center | Contemporary Arts Center presents Louis Michot | New Orleans |
| 54 | Music Concert | Douglas Manship Sr. Theatre Complex Holding | Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet – Blues After School Program | Baton Rouge |
| 55 | Music Concert | Ferdinand Learning Center | An evening of Chorro and Traditional Jazz: Pixinguinha meets Bechet | New Orleans |
| 56 | Music Concert | Friends of the Cabildo | Friends of the Cabildo Concert Series | New Orleans |
| 57 | Music Concert | Kemper And Leila Williams Foundation dba The Historic New Orleans Collection | Musical Louisiana: America’s Cultural Heritage presents Dédé’s “Morgiane ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan | New Orleans |
| 58 | Music Concert | Longue Vue House and Gardens Corporation | Twilight at Longue Vue 2025 | New Orleans |
| 59 | Music Concert | Louisiana Children’s Museum | Make Your Mark: Arts and Culture at the Louisiana Children’s Museum | New Orleans |
| 60 | Music Concert | Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra | A Tale of God’s Will: A Requiem for Katrina | New Orleans |
| 61 | Music Concert | Lyrica Baroque | Winterreise | New Orleans |
| 63 | Music Concert | Musaica Education and Performance Ensemble | Four Extraordinary Trios and the Beethoven Septet | New Orleans |
| 64 | Music Concert | Music Alive Ensemble of New Orleans | Abbey Lincoln Songs Of Love and Revolution | New Orleans |
| 65 | Music Concert | New Orleans Airlift Inc | Byron Asher’s Skrontch Music : “”Lord when you send the rain | New Orleans |
| 66 | Music Concert | New Orleans Chamber Orchestra | Summer Season 2025 | New Orleans |
| 67 | Music Concert | New Orleans Chamber Players | 2025 Season | New Orleans |
| 68 | Music Concert | New Orleans Chapter, American Harp Society | Louisiana Harpist Live Concert and Therapeutic music series | Metairie |
| 70 | Music Concert | Northshore Community Foundation | Notes for Education Northshore presents Twilight Symphony | Covington |
| 71 | Music Concert | Northshore Traditional Music Society | Swingtime in Springtime | Covington |
| 73 | Music Concert | Shreveport Regional Arts Council | Shreveport Symphony in Caddo Common Park | Shreveport |
| 74 | Music Concert | Symphony Chorus of New Orleans | Handel’s Messiah | New Orleans |
| 75 | Music Concert | Threadhead Cultural Foundation | Threadhead Thursday at City Park | New Orleans |
| 76 | Music Concert | Treme Artists Collective | Down In Treme: Week of Traditional and Culture Bearers | New Orleans |
| 77 | Music Festival | Abita Opry inc. | Abita Sporings Busker Festival | Abita Springs |
| 78 | Music Festival | Arts & Humanities Council of Avoyelles Inc. | Avoyelles Arts & Music Festival | Marksville |
| 79 | Music Festival | Baton Rouge Blues Festival and Foundation | Baton Rouge Blues Festival | Baton Rouge |
| 80 | Music Festival | Be Positive | Federales Fest 2024 | Baton Rouge |
| 81 | Music Festival | Ben Meyer Foundation | Acadia Music Fest | Thibodaux |
| 82 | Music Festival | Black Men of Labor, Inc. | Noir Experience Festival XXIX | New Orleans |
| 83 | Music Festival | BlackAmericana Fest | BlackAmericana Fest | New Orleans |
| 84 | Music Festival | Cervantes Fundacion Hispanoamericana de Arte | Que Pasa Fest 2024 | Metairie |
| 85 | Music Festival | City of New Roads | Harvest Festival on False River Live Music Performances | New Roads |
| 86 | Music Festival | Claiborne Unite Foundation Inc | Louisiana Legends Festival | Homer |
| 87 | Music Festival | Feed the Second Line | For The Love of Culture Fest | New Orleans |
| 88 | Music Festival | Festival International de Louisiana | Festival International | Lafayette |
| 89 | Music Festival | Festivals Acadiens et Créoles | Festivals Acadiens et Creoles | Lafayette |
| 91 | Music Festival | Fitchfield Foundation | Fitchfield Foundation 2nd Annual Community Outreach Festival | New Orleans |
| 92 | Music Festival | French Quarter Festivals, Inc | Satchmo SummerFest 2025 | New Orleans |
| 93 | Music Festival | Friends of Bayou St. John | Bayou Boogaloo 2025 | New Orleans |
| 94 | Music Festival | Friends of Treme Culture | Annual Treme Fall Festival | New Orleans |
| 95 | Music Festival | Highland Area Partnership | Highland Jazz and Blues Festival | Shreveport |
| 96 | Music Festival | Jefferson Convention & Visitors Bureau | Family Gras | Harahan |
| 97 | Music Festival | Louisiana Cattle Festival & Fair Association | 74th Louisiana Cattle Festival | Abbeville |
| 98 | Music Festival | Louisiana Cotton Festival | Louisiana Cotton Festival 70 Entertainment | Belmont |
| 99 | Music Festival | New Arts Cultural Society | Festival of Negro Spirituals | Shreveport |
| 100 | Music Festival | New Music on the Bayou | 2025 New Music on the Bayou Festival | Monroe |
| 101 | Music Festival | New Orleans Blues Society | Little Freddie KIng Fest and A Blues Juke | New Orleans |
| 102 | Music Festival | New Orleans Juneteenth Festival | New Orleans Juneteenth Festival | New Orleans |
| 103 | Music Festival | North Baton Rouge Now Inc | Krewe of OSHUN BR | Baton Rouge |
| 104 | Music Festival | Northwestern State University of Louisiana | 45th Annual Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival | Natchitoches |
| 105 | Music Festival | Point Productions, LLC | Algiers Mardi Gras Festival | New Orleans |
| 106 | Music Festival | Project Revolution | L.O.C.A.L.S’ Fest (Loving Our Community As Louisiana) | New Orleans |
| 107 | Music Festival | Red River Revel Arts Festival | Red River Revel Arts Festival | Shreveport |
| 108 | Music Festival | Rock & Rouge Foundation, INC. | Rock & Rouge Women’s Music & Food Festival & beyond | New Orleans |
| 110 | Music Festival | This is Home Fest, Inc. | This is Home Fest 2025 | Lake Charles |
| 111 | Music Festival | Uptown Jazz Orchestra Inc. | 4th Annual Jazz at Congo Square Festival | New Orleans |
| 112 | Music Festival | Young Leadership Council | Wednesday at the Square | New Orleans |
| 113 | Music Performance Series | Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge | Sunday in the Park | Baton Rouge |
| 114 | Music Performance Series | Arts Council of New Orleans | Arts Market New Orleans | New Orleans |
| 115 | Music Performance Series | Arts Council of Pointe Coupee | 2025 Performing Arts Series | New Roads |
| 116 | Music Performance Series | B Sharp Music Club of New Orleans | A Celebration of the Negro Spiritual”” Concert Series | New Orleans |
| 117 | Music Performance Series | Baton Rouge Gallery | Movies & Music on the Lawn | Baton Rouge |
| 118 | Music Performance Series | Bridge Agency, Inc. | Bayou Performers Initiative | Baton Rouge |
| 119 | Music Performance Series | Downtown West Monroe Revitalization Group | Ouachita Live | West Monroe |
| 120 | Music Performance Series | Friends of Lafitte Corridor DBA Friends of Lafitte Greenway | The Greenway Youth Music Series | New Orleans |
| 121 | Music Performance Series | Henry Turner Jr | 8 week listening room solo concert series | Baton Rouge |
| 122 | Music Performance Series | Live After Five, Inc. | Live After Five | Baton Rouge |
| 123 | Music Performance Series | M&M Community Development Inc. | Jazz for Kids 2024 | New Orleans |
| 124 | Music Performance Series | New Orleans Jazz Museum | Gallatin Friday Showcase | New Orleans |
| 125 | Music Performance Series | New Orleans Museum of Art | Support for Musical Programs at NOMA | New Orleans |
| 126 | Music Performance Series | New Orleans Sound Observatory ( dba Sound Observatory New Orleans) | The Shape of Jazz to Come | New Orleans |
| 127 | Music Performance Series | New Voices New Orleans, Inc. | Routes: New Voices New Orleans in Concert | New Orleans |
| 128 | Music Performance Series | nienteForte Contemporary Music | nienteForte Season 15 | New Orleans |
| 129 | Music Performance Series | North American Song Competition Foundation | Cutting Edge CE Listening Room | New Orleans |
| 130 | Music Performance Series | Opera Louisiane, Inc. | Becoming Santa Claus | Baton Rouge |
| 131 | Music Performance Series | Ozone Music Education Foundation | OZONE Songwriter Nights, Monthly | Mandeville |
| 132 | Music Performance Series | Saint Augustine Catholic Church | Saint Augustine Church Music Ministries | New Orleans |
| 133 | Music Performance Series | Scotland Saturdays NPO | Levitt AMP Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge |
| 135 | Music Performance Series | Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival | Drummer & Smoke Music Series | New Orleans |
| 136 | Music Performance Series | University of New Orleans School of the Arts | Jazz at the Sandbar | New Orleans |
| 137 | Music Performance Series | Versipel New Music | Versipel New Music Season XI | Covington |
| 138 | Other | Charles Johnson Ministries | Chicken & Blues Festival | Shreveport |
| 140 | Other | Delcambre Shrimp Festival and Fair Association | Delcambre Shrimp Festival and Fair Association | Delcambre |
| 142 | Other | Friends of Bayou Lafourche, Inc. | St. Patrick’s Day on the Bayou | Thibodaux |
| 143 | Other | Hammond Cultural Foundation | Brews Arts Festival | Hammond |
| 144 | Other | New Orleans Black Artist Society | Black Film Festival of New Orleans | New Orleans |
| 145 | Other | New Orleans Legacy Association of Bands, Inc. | Beat the LEAP Battle of the Bands | New Orleans |
| 146 | Other | OffBeat Music & Cultural Arts Foundation | Best of the Beat Awards | New Orleans |
| 147 | Other | Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival, Inc | 2025 Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival | Ponchatoula |
| 148 | Other | Prominent Youth Foundation | DTR Christmas Festival | Braithwaite |
| 149 | Other | Sankofa Community Development Corporation | Sankofa BayouFest | New Orleans |
| 150 | Other | St. Tammany Parish Fair Association | St. Tammany Parish Fair | Covington |
| 151 | Other | Tangipahoa Parish Fair Association | 2024 Tangipahoa Parish Fair | Amite |
| 152 | Theatre | Crescent City Stage Co. | A Christmas Carol by Patrick Barlow | New Orleans |
| 153 | Theatre | Goat in the Road Productions | Gallatin Alley | New Orleans |
| 154 | Theatre | Intramural Theater, Inc. | “Timbuktu, USA” by Ken Prestininzi | New Orleans |
| 155 | Theatre | St. John Theatre Inc | Monty Python’s Spamalot | Reserve |
| 156 | Theatre | The NOLA Project | PASS OVER by Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu in Partnership with New Orleans African American Museum | New Orleans |
| 157 | Theatre | The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams | New Orleans |
| 158 | Theatre | Voices in the Dark Repertory Theatre Com | Le Code Noir | New Orleans |