Treme Creole Gumbo Festival
Don’t miss the ninth yearly Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival – New Orleans’ chief brass band showcase. On the off chance that you adore brass groups and gumbo – or, even better, getting a charge out of some tasty gumbo while listening to brass groups playing live in a wonderful New Orleans park– then this is the occasion for you. If you live at our New Orleans Apartments, Emerald Pointe, you don’t have to drive far to get there.
The 2016 Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival happens Saturday, Nov. 12, and Sunday, Nov., 13, from 11 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. both days in Louis Armstrong Park. Admission is free. The celebration is delivered and displayed by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, the not-for-profit that possesses the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival exhibited by Shell. It does not take place far from our New Orleans apartments, Emerald Pointe.
By and by, they will have the finest show of customary and contemporary New Orleans metal band jazz to be discovered anyplace on the planet. The world-celebrated, Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band will feature the celebration. They’ll be joined by a hefty portion of your top choices, including the Hot 8, the To Be Continued, the Pinettes, the New Breed, the Soul Brass Band and some more. In the event that you like your New Orleans jazz offbeat, punchy and hot, this is the place to be.
And after that there’s the gumbo.
Gumbo symbolizes the blend way of New Orleans’ way of life. It’s a hot, exquisite mix of fixings and impacts – much like the mélange of societies that prompted to the appearance of jazz in and around New Orleans’ notable Tremé neighborhood. The Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival is a method for paying tribute to precursors and social conventions – with awesome nourishment, music and fun.
As they’ve accomplished for quite a long time, they will offer a buffet of New Orleans’ mark dish, in an assortment of styles – including vegetarian. Gumbo z’herbes, shrimp and clam, chicken and andouille, Creole filé, dull roux, without gluten and – yes – vegetarian – these and more will be served in their extended sustenance court.
Every one of the 14 of their sustenance sellers will offer their own particular remarkable understanding of this New Orleans exemplary, alongside other menu things. Inspecting size bits will be accessible, so don’t hesitate to blend and match until you locate your top choice.
NEW THIS YEAR:
They’re growing their menu and their impression to incorporate another nourishment court in Congo Square. That is the place you’ll discover some of your most loved sellers from past versions of the Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival, similar to Miss Linda’s Soul Food and Dunbar’s Creole Cooking. That is additionally where a few merchants who are New Orleans legends however new to their celebration will be set up, as Willie Mae’s Scotch House and Neyow’s Creole Café.
COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS:
They’re additionally including a cooking show arrange, where you can take in the gumbo insider facts of New Orleans culinary symbols like James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award champ Leah Chase of Dooky Chase Restaurant, Susan Spicer of Bayona and the new eatery Rosedale, and Wayne Baquet of Li’l Dizzy’s Café.
As they did lasted year, they are combining their Arts Market with their Kids Area, with neighborhood specialists driving intelligent and inventive workshops.
2016 Treme Creole Gumbo Festival Performance Agenda:
SATURDAY, NOV. 12
11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Jack Brass Band
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Treme Brass Band
1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Paulin Brothers Brass Band
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. New Breed Brass Band
4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. To Be Continued Brass Band
6:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Soul Brass Band
SUNDAY, NOV. 13
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Panorama Jazz Band
2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Caesar Brothers Funk Box
3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Pinettes Brass Band
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hot 8 Brass Band
6:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Rebirth Brass Band
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