New Orleans Music Walking Tour

Walk the streets where jazz was born on this 2-hour New Orleans Music Walking Tour. Starting in the French Quarter, your guide takes you through a journey of rhythm, resistance, and creativity that shaped music worldwide. Visit legendary spots like Preservation Hall, the site of the Old French Opera House, and the colorful history of the Tango Belt.

You'll stop at St. Louis Cemetery #1 to see the New Orleans Musicians Tomb, a unique resting place donated by the Barbarin family for the city's musical legends. From there, explore the remnants of Storyville, the city's famed red-light district and birthplace of jazz, where pioneers like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet once played.

Continue to Basin Street Station and into Louis Armstrong Park, home of Congo Square—the only place in North America where enslaved Africans gathered to perform their music and rituals openly. The tour wraps up at the historic J&M Studios, where artists like Fats Domino, Little Richard, and Ray Charles recorded the New Orleans Sound. Along the way, you'll uncover the origins of bounce music and the lasting influence of the city's vibrant street performers.