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The New Orleans Jazz Museum
The New Orleans Jazz Museum, housed in the Old U.S. Mint, is strategically located at the intersection of the city’s French Quarter and the Frenchmen Street live music corridor, the heart of the city’s vibrant music scene. The Museum celebrates the history of jazz, in all its forms, through dynamic interactive exhibits, multi-generational educational programming, research facilities, and engaging musical performances.
The Museum is located at the foot of Esplanade Avenue, in the Old U.S. Mint. The New Orleans Mint is a national historic landmark that is part of the Louisiana State Museum
system. It is the oldest surviving structure to have served as a U.S. Mint.
Current museum exhibits, which will be open during the EPIC reception, include exhibits on Women in Jazz and a stunning exhibition of Black Indian Mardi Gras suits by Big Chief Darryl Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas.
The welcome reception will take place from 6-8 pm and will feature live music by Tom McDermott, one of New Orleans’ premier piano players and composers, praised by the New York Times as a “very skillful pianist” who is “not simply a follower of tradition or a repository of old tunes,” but a composer with a “wide- ranging idiom with a knowledgeable feeling for his sources and a sense of humor.” Appearing with McDermott will be
Aurora Nealand, gifted multi-instrumentalist/vocalist and “an established bandleader, composer, performer and improviser. Nealand has become a prominent force in the New Orleans music scene and has emerged as an innovative, sensitive, and daring music creator and performer”.
Complimentary beverages and appetizers will be served. All conference attendees are invited. Other invited guests include elected officials of the City of New Orleans and community leaders and activists on criminal justice issues in the City.
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