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The Jazz & Heritage Gala is the official kick off celebration to the 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell!

This star-studded event is Thursday, April 27, 2023 at Generations Hall in New Orleans. The patron party begins at 6pm, followed by the gala from 7pm to 10pm.

New Orleans culture bearer and activist Barbara Lacen Keller has died at the age of […]

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell today announced the music lineup for the 2023 event, scheduled for April 28 – May 7.

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 […]