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New Orleans Brass · New Orleans
Brass bands and beignets
1 / 6 · Ayoub Benamor
Brass bands and beignets
New Orleans Brass · New Orleans
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Find things to do in New Orleans Talk to a specialistWhy you’ll love it
A city where the food and the music share top billing. A GoSmart specialist tailors the route, the stays, and the pace to you.
Why it works
A brass band swings around a Treme corner, the sousaphone thumping as a second line forms behind it, and the smell of a po-boy and chicory coffee drifts from a doorway. New Orleans throws a party in the street for no particular reason, and you are invited.
Worth knowing
Frenchmen Street is where locals go for live music, more than the tourist crush of Bourbon Street, and the sound is jazz, brass, and funk most nights. Tip the buskers and the bands, since that is how they make a living.
Come hungry and pace yourself: gumbo, jambalaya, beignets at Cafe du Monde, and a muffuletta are the canon. Spring and fall are the comfortable seasons, while summer swelters and Mardi Gras is its own beast entirely.
The neighborhoods each have a flavor, the French Quarter, the Garden District's oak-lined streets, the music of Treme and Marigny. It is a walkable, humid, atmospheric city, so slow down and let it unfold.