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In December 2022, the Foundation held three days of public award ceremonies at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center to honor Community Partnership Grant Recipients. Organizations and individuals gave heartfelt speeches and testimonials about their project missions and engaged in a fun networking opportunity.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents the 2023 Jazz & Heritage Concert Series featuring local and international musicians at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Community Partnership Grant awardees.

CALL FOR ENTRIES! The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
presented by Shell is now accepting crafts applications for the 2023 event.

Celebrating the return of the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival, Painted Axe focused its artists efforts on “renewal.” With that, Painted Axe selected a butterfly to represent renewal, rebirth and the promise of a better future on the 2009 Epiphone Les Paul. Not just any butterfly, but a Gulf Fritillary – Louisiana’s state butterfly – and the only butterfly apparently indigenous to the Bayou State.

Congratulations to our Helis Foundation Digital Systems Lead, Joe Stolarick, for his recent publication in The Journal of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. 

The Don “Moose” Jamison Heritage School of Music is our signature music education program at […]

The Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival returns to Lafayette Square Park (602 St. Charles Ave.) in New Orleans for its 15th edition on October 14-16, 2022. 

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Community Partnership Grant cycle. Since 1979, the Jazz & Heritage Foundation has invested proceeds from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell directly into the community with grants to fund projects that support the foundation’s mission. More than $12 million has been awarded in Community Partnership Grants since the program began.

Don Marshall, Executive Director of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, was honored with the Celeste Seymour Judell Arts Award on the Thursday, June 23, 2022 edition of STEPPIN’ OUT, WYES-TV’s long-running arts and entertainment discussion program hosted by Peggy Scott Laborde.