Jazz Fest New Orleans

Friday, April 23 to Sunday, May 2 from
11 a.m. until 7 p.m. each day

Place St. Charles proudly supports the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival by giving you a chance to win Grand Marshal passes to the 2010 Jazz Fest. To enter, patronize any one of Place St. Charles' delicious eateries, retailers or service providers on April 12 and 13, to receive an entry form. Then drop off your completed entry form in the Jazz Fest box located on the security desk in the first floor lobby. The drawing will be held April 15, and the winner need not be present to win.

Since its inception in 1970, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has enjoyed great success in terms of cultural significance and popular appeal. Conceived of as an event worthy to celebrate the city's legacy as the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has grown from its original 350 person attendance in Congo Square to the enormous (175,000+ on a single day!) crowds that now fill the infield of the Fair Grounds Race Course, the third-oldest racetrack in America (open since 1872).

Jazz impresario George Wein, (the visionary behind both the Newport Jazz Festival 1954 and the Newport Folk Festival 1959) was hired to design and produce a unique festival for New Orleans. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit organization, was established to oversee the Festival. Wein's original concept of the Louisiana Heritage Fair—a large daytime fair with multiple stages featuring a wide variety of indigenous music styles, food booths of Louisiana cuisine, and arts and crafts booths, along with an evening concert series. In addition to Mahalia Jackson and Duke Ellington, the first Festival lineup included Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Clifton Chenier, Fats Domino, The Meters, The Preservation Hall Band, parades every day with The Olympia Brass Band and Mardi Gras Indians, and many others.

Now boasting 12 music stages that are simultaneously filled with jazz, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, blues, R&B, rock, funk, African, Latin, Caribbean, folk, and much more, "Jazz Fest" as it became known as quickly as 1972, celebrates 41 years of Louisiana and Jazz culture.

This year Jazz Fest runs from April 23–May 2—a full seven days of programming. Festival organizers have assembled a diverse mix of rhythm and blues, rock, jazz, country, blues, gospel, and world beat scheduled to appear at this 41st Jazz & Heritage Festival including such artists as… Pearl Jam, Simon & Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Lionel Richie, Anita Baker, The Neville Brothers, Allman Brothers Band, My Morning Jacket, Darius Rucker, Widespread Panic and hundreds more.

Stella Jones Gallery

March 2010, M-F 12-6 pm, Sat 12-5pm
or by appointment, 504-568-9050, www.stellajonesgallery.com

Exhibits:

"All that Jazz" – Main Gallery
Artist: Richard Dempsey, Type of art: Abstract Expressionist
The featured exhibition represents a collection of mixed media works by one of the most prolific Abstract Expressionist's of our time.

"Revolution" – Front Gallery
Artist: Elizabeth Catlett, Type of art: Prints
This exhibition of prints is a look back at a more tumultuous time in American history.

"Tribute to the School Marching Bands in New Orleans" – Side Gallery
Artist: Bruce Davenport (local), Type of art: Self-Taught Artist / Painter
Mr. Davenport is a self-taught artist and native of New Orleanian who has never left, except to evacuate for hurricane Katrina.

"All that Jazz"
Artist: Antonio Carreno, Type of art: Abstract Mixed Media
The current exhibition of paintings is a collection of abstract mixed media works filled with a vitality and lyricism born out of the artists' love of nature.

"All that Jazz"
Artist: Chris Malone, Type of art: Soft Sculpture
Chris Malone is a self-taught artist who creates spiritual objects in the form of soft sculpture dolls.

"All that Jazz"
Artist: Robin Holder, Type of art: Printmaker
Robin Holder uses line, form, color and texture to create bold and sophisticated compositions.

"The Talented Tenth: African American Artists of the Harlem Renaissance and
the WPA"

Artist(s): Richmond Barthe', Romare Bearden, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Allan Rohan Crite, Eugene Grigsby, Isaac Hathaway, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, James Porter, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, James Lassene Wells, Charles White and Nina Buxenbaum.

The WPA (Works Progress Administration) was initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and funded by the federal government from mid 1930s to mid 1940s. The arts division of the WPA had more than 5,000 artists of all ethnicities and medias all across the United States. The Harlem Renaissance was the period from the 1920s to the 1940s which flourished in the newly formed Black community of Harlem. It was an expression of culture in art, music, poetry, dance and life.

Stella will also feature up-and-coming artist, Nina Buxenbaum of New York, whose honest and personal depictions of women, particularly women of color, provide an alternative to the stereotypes that are as prevalent in our culture today as they were during the Harlem Renaissance.

Calendar of Events 2009 — 2010


March

1–31 – Stella Jones Gallery @ Place St. Charles "All That Jazz" collection of art

14 – Pavilion of 2 Sisters, City Park 5–8pm, Thursdays

20–28 – Spring Fiesta @ various New Orleans Locations

20–21 – Earth Fest @ Audubon Park

24 – YLC Wednesdays at the Square @ St. Charles & Gallier Hall, weekly

26–28 – LA Roadfood Festival @ Convention Center

27 – Breakfast with the Bugs, Audubon Aquarium

27 – NOLA City Bark Times Grand Opening

25–28 – Crawfish and Redfish Cup, Chalmette

29–31 – Place St. Charles Easter Egg Hunt @ the shops & eateries of Place St. Charles

April

3 – Crescent City Classic 10K

9–11 – French Quarter Festival, Free

12 – Place St. Charles Pre-"Jazz Fest" Fest @ 201 St. Charles Avenue

17 – Safari After Dark, Audubon Zoo

19 – Zurich Classic of New Orleans @ Lapalco Blvd

23–5/2 – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

27–28 – Ponderosa Stomp @ House of Blues

30 – Kids Zoo to Do @ Audubon Park

May

7 – Zoo to Do @ Audubon Park

28–30 – New Orleans Wine & Food Experience @ several locations in French Quarter

28–30 – Annual Greek Festival and Run, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral