New Orleans Music Tour

This music tour of New Orleans will take you back in time and give you an up-close look at 300 years of the city's music and heritage. This is a 2-hour audio-visual tour that takes you into the historic neighbourhoods of New Orleans: Marigny, French Quarter and Treme.

An expert local guide will use a dozen songs to show you all the iconic spaces, times and genres of music in the area. He will use a wireless speaker on the tour to play the songs to provide musical accompaniment to the artists and places along the itinerary.

You'll visit the iconic Louisiana Music Factory, one of the city's typical record shops, where you'll be able to pick up a souvenir of the tour. You' ll also pass through the French Quarter's main points of interest:

• Danny Parker's childhood home
• Place des Armes
• Mister New Orleans and J&M Studios, known as the "home of rock & roll".
• Preservation Hall, where Sandra and Allan Jaffe spent their honeymoon.

You'll stroll down Bourbon Street, known as the most musical street in the world. Today, it's a favourite street for young people to enjoy the music and nightlife of New Orleans. Learn more about the immortal blues, jazz, gospel and rock and roll artists who have been part of this city.

In Treme, Louis Armstrong Park and Congo Square welcome you to America's first African-American neighbourhood . Here you can learn about their influence on the music and heritage of New Orleans.

Throughout the tour you will hear Louis Armstrong, James Booker, Fats Domino, The Meters, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, Buddy Bolden, Mahalia Jackson and many others who are part of New Orleans' 300 years of musical heritage.