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Music Lineup Announcement for Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival and the Congo Square Rhythms Festival 2023
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES COMBINED TREMÉ CREOLE GUMBO FESTIVAL AND CONGO SQUARE RHYTHMS FESTIVAL HAPPENING ON MARCH 25 AND 26
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW ORLEANS (March 16, 2023) – The Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival and the Congo Square Rhythms Festival will happen concurrently on March 25 and 26, 2023. Both events are celebrating the Faubourg Tremé neighborhood as the birthplace of both jazz and so much of the cherished local culture of New Orleans. The festivals will happen throughout Louis Armstrong Park and Congo Square on Saturday, March 25, and Sunday, March 26, with multiple performance stages and large local food and arts markets.
Admission to the park is free and open to the public, presented by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.
The festivities will open with James Andrews live in concert at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street) on Friday, March 24. Tickets for that show are $10, available here.
Also on the opening night of the festival, a Tom Dent Congo Square Lecture will take place through a partnership with Ashé Cultural Arts Center. The lecture will focus on Stick-fighting Dances of the Caribbean and Early New Orleans, featuring panelists Milteri Tucker Concepción, Miquel Quijano, Freddi Williams Evans, along with drummers and dancers of Bombazo Dance Company. The lecture is free and open to the public on Friday, March 24 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm at Ashé Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. RSVP for free here.
Immediately following the Tom Dent Lecture, Ashé Cultural Arts Center’s Sistahs Making a Change is hosting a special community dance class led by Bombazo Dance Company! Join us for a beginner’s level Bomba class and experience this unique Puerto Rican music genre and dance in which the dancer guides the rhythm and tempo of the drums.
live Music schedule
Two Full Days of Music 10:45am to 7:00pm
Friday, March 24th
Festival Kickoff Concert with James Andrews & The Crescent City All-Stars at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street)
Saturday, March 25th
Congo Square Rhythms Stage
10:45 am to 11:45 pm Drum Circle
11:45 pm to 12:30 pm Marina Orchestra
12:45 pm to 1:45 pm Higher Heights
2:00 pm to 3:15 pm Big Chief Kevin Goodman & the Flaming Arrows
3:30 pm to 4:45 pm RAM
5:00 pm to 6:15 pm Flag Boy Giz
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 79rs Gang
Tremé Creole Gumbo Stage
11:00 am to 12:15 pm Young Pinstripe Brass Band
12:30 pm to 1:45 pm The Storyville Stompers Brass Band
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Naydja CoJoe & the Lagniappe Section
3:15 pm to 4:15 pm Treme Brass Band
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm To Be Continued Brass Band
5:45 pm to 7:00 pm Rebirth Brass Band
Sunday, March 26th
Congo Square Rhythms Stage
10:45 am to 11:45 pm Drum Circle
12:00 pm to 12:20 pm Kumbuka Dance Collective
12:25 pm to 12:45 pm N’Kafu n Culu
12:50 pm to 1:10 pm Bombazo Dance Company
1:15 pm to 1:35 pm N’Fungola Sibo
1:40 pm to 2:00 pm Free Spirit Walkers
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm Bamboula 2000
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm Mardi Gras Indian Battle
- Creole Wild West led by Big Chief Howard Miller
- Flaming Arrows led by Big Chief Kevin Goodman,
- Creole Cheveyo led by Big Chief Kevin Turner
4:45 pm to 6:15 pm Big Chief Juan Pardo
Tremé Creole Gumbo Stage
11:00 am to 12:15 pm Big Six Brass Band
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm Gina Brown
2:15 pm to 3:30 pm Hot 8 Brass Band
3:45 pm to 4:45 pm The Original Pinettes Brass Band
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Water Seed
6:15 pm to 7:30 pm Dirty Dozen Brass Band
No recording. Please, no audio or video recording of any performances at the festival.
About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation:
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation invests proceeds from Jazz Fest and additional funds that we raise for year-round programming in education, economic development and cultural enrichment. Education programs include the Don “Moose” Jamison Heritage School of Music, the Tom Dent Congo Square Lectures, the Class Got Brass competition for school brass bands, a youth audio workshop program, youth vocal workshops, and more! Economic Development initiatives include the Community Partnership Grants, the Catapult Fund accelerator program and Sync Up entertainment industry workshops. Cultural enrichment programs include the Jazz & Heritage Concert Series and annual Foundation Festivals: the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival, the Congo Square Rhythms Festival, the Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival and the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival. Importantly, these are free programs that the Jazz and Heritage Foundation has developed over many years to ensure that we give back to Louisiana. The Jazz & Heritage Foundation also owns radio station WWOZ 90.7-FM and the Jazz & Heritage Archive. In late 2014, the Foundation opened the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center – an education and community facility named for the late Jazz Fest founder George Wein and his wife Joyce. In March of 2020, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation established the Jazz & Heritage Music Relief Fund – a statewide relief fund to support Louisiana musicians who were affected by the pandemic. In the last two years the Jazz & Heritage Foundation has been able to provide relief funds of more than $2 million dollars supporting musicians, music industry gig workers, Black Masking Indians and other indigenous cultural practitioners. To learn more about the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, please visit us online at www.jazzandheritage.org
MEDIA CONTACT
Baylee Badawy, Marketing & Communications Coordinator
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation
504-766-0671