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Congo Square Rhythms Festival
New Orleans, LA · Music
- When
- March 27–28, 2027
- Where
- Congo Square, Armstrong Park · New Orleans · LA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
The Congo Square Rhythms Festival is a free weekend of Afro diasporic music and dance held at Congo Square, the historic site where enslaved Africans gathered on Sundays in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is produced by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, the same organization behind Jazz Fest. The festival features brass bands, funk and traditional West African performers alongside a craft market.
The history within reach
- Mystic Krewe of Barkussame spot
The Mystic Krewe of Barkus is a Mardi Gras parade for costumed dogs and their owners, rolling through the French Quarter since 1993.
- Congo Square Rhythms Festivalsame spot
The Congo Square Rhythms Festival is a free weekend of Afro diasporic music and dance held at Congo Square, the historic site where enslaved Africans gathered on Sundays in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- The 1891 lynchings0.1 mi
A mob took eleven Italian men from the prison after their acquittal for the police chief's murder and killed them, the largest mass lynching in American history.
The dead are buried above ground in tombs reused across generations, a year and a day in the Louisiana heat reduces a body enough to make room for the next.
Born in a district called the Battlefield and sent to the Colored Waif's Home at eleven for firing a pistol on New Year's Eve, where he was handed a cornet.