“The French Market used to be a place everyone went on weekends,” says Boo Carre founder Amy Kirk. “I have heard many local New Orleanians say things like, ‘I used to go to the French Market with my grandmother’ or, ‘My grandfather used to sell at the French Market!’ The Market has also been a [...]
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French Market Bastille Day Waiters’ Race: Photos
July 11, 2011 – 4:08 pm
For the second year in a row, the French Market celebrated Bastille Day with a tradition borrowed from Paris: a waiters’ race in which waiters and waitresses from New Orleans restaurants competed by speed walking while holding a tray of drinks on a course from Washington Artillery Park on Decatur Street to the French Market [...]
Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco, Creole Tomato, and Louisiana Seafood Festivals: Photos
June 13, 2011 – 6:53 pm
This weekend, the fifth-annual Vieux-To-Do took over the French Quarter with its three festivals in one. The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, Creole Tomato Festival, and Louisiana Seafood Festival stretched from the Old U.S. Mint throughout the French Market, featuring three stages of southwest Louisiana music and lots and lots of food. All photos taken by Kim [...]
A Lot of Vieux to Do This Weekend
June 8, 2011 – 8:18 pm
For the fifth year in a row, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation has partnered with the Louisiana Seafood Promotion & Marketing Board and the New Orleans French Market to present their “three festivals in one weekend” celebration. The three festivals—the Creole Tomato Festival, the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, and the Louisiana Seafood Festival—are intertwined [...]
Slideshow: New Orleans Cajun & Zydeco, Creole Tomato, and Seafood Festivals
June 14, 2010 – 12:57 pm
This past weekend, the French Market and the Old U.S. Mint hosted this year’s Vieux-to-Do, 3 simultaneous festivals clustered in the lower part of the French Quarter: the Cajun & Zydeco, Creole Tomato, and Louisiana Seafood Festivals. Below are photos of a Treme Brass Band second line and a stage at the Old U.S. Mint [...]
YouTube du Jour: Smoky Greenwell
December 21, 2009 – 10:55 am
As we approach Christmas, here’s Smoky Greenwell’s “Merry Christmas to All,” which doubles as a celebration of his French Market community.
Tri-Fest-A
June 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Thought festival season was over? Not so fast. Three staples of Louisiana culture—the Creole tomato, seafood, and Cajun and zydeco music—will come together once again for this year’s Vieux-To-Do. The two-day event will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 13—14, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and it will bring together three festivals: the [...]
Decatur: The Street Where Dreams Meet
June 1, 1989 – 12:01 am
Decatur Street. For a New Orleanian of some vintage, the mere mention of the name conjures a variety of colorful associations, sensations of the sort ordinarily found only on foreign shores—curious sights, odd smells, exotic ambience and anomalous, Aegean or, Ionian melodies. Decatur Street had always been on the edge of New Orleans, the waterfront, [...]
