Boasting "Connect, collaborate, create music" as its mantra, Bandaloo is a new national model for exploring music through community that will launch in New Orleans the last weekend in March.

"Beyond the city’s deep pools of eager, diverse musical talents, New Orleans is an obvious choice to begin Bandaloo’s high-minded concept. Music and community are intimately linked here, from the past drumming of Congo Square religious ceremonies to present-day street parades."

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