Bourbon Street French Quarter Entertainment
French Quarter Bourbon St
Bourbon Street is the most famous entertainment street in America — a French Quarter corridor that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, where open-container laws permit drinking on public streets and where jazz, blues, and rock music pours from every doorway. Bourbon Street's extraordinary combination of New Orleans's unique entertainment permissiveness, its remarkable culinary and musical heritage, and its 300-year-old French Colonial streetscape creates an entertainment district of singular American cultural freedom significance.
French Quarter
Vieux Carré
The French Quarter (Vieux Carré) is the historic core of New Orleans — a 78-block grid of Spanish and French colonial architecture that is the city's cultural centre for jazz, cuisine, nightlife, and street entertainment. Bourbon Street, Jackson Square, the St. Louis Cathedral, and legendary bars and restaurants are all within the Quarter, minutes from Harrah's New Orleans casino.
Magazine Street Uptown New Orleans
Uptown New Orleans Magazine
Magazine Street serves Uptown New Orleans with a 6-mile corridor of outstanding independent restaurants, excellent cocktail bars, extraordinary antique shops, and the most beautiful residential architecture in America (the Garden District's antebellum mansions are among the finest examples of Southern domestic architecture in the country). Magazine Street's extraordinary combination of architectural beauty, outstanding independent commerce, and genuine New Orleans neighborhood character creates an entertainment district of remarkable Louisiana urban significance.
Tremé New Orleans Heritage Entertainment
Tremé New Orleans
Tremé is the most historically significant African American neighborhood in America — the community that invented jazz, the second-line parade, the brass band tradition, and much of the cultural DNA of American popular music. Tremé's extraordinary cultural legacy (Louis Armstrong was born here, the Mardi Gras Indian tradition was born here) and its vibrant contemporary music scene create an entertainment district of unparalleled American musical cultural historical significance.
Bywater New Orleans Creative Entertainment
Bywater Marigny New Orleans
Bywater's creative entertainment district has become the most artistically vital neighborhood in New Orleans — a post-Katrina renaissance area where outstanding restaurants, galleries, and the vibrant arts community create an entertainment environment of genuine New Orleans creative cultural significance. Bywater's extraordinary creative energy and its remarkable concentration of outstanding independent establishments create an entertainment district that reflects the most optimistic possibilities of New Orleans's cultural future.
Frenchmen Street Art Market
Frenchmen Street is New Orleans's authentic music neighborhood — a four-block corridor in the Faubourg Marigny just outside the French Quarter lined with live music venues, bars, and the outdoor Frenchmen Art Market. Seven or more venues host simultaneous live music nightly, making Frenchmen Street the one place in America where you can genuinely encounter jazz, brass band, funk, and blues all at once just by walking half a block.
Frenchmen Street Entertainment District
Faubourg Marigny
Frenchmen Street in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood is New Orleans's most celebrated live music strip — a two-block concentration of jazz clubs, blues bars, and Creole restaurants where world-class musicians perform nightly for cover charges under $20. Locals regard Frenchmen Street as the soul of New Orleans music culture, distinct from the tourist-oriented Bourbon Street scene.
Freret Street Entertainment District New Orleans LA
Freret Street in Uptown New Orleans has developed from a blighted corridor to one of the city's most vibrant neighborhood entertainment districts following post-Katrina revitalization, with Cure cocktail bar, the Drifter Hotel, the Freret Beer Room, restaurants, and creative businesses serving the Tulane and Loyola University communities in one of New Orleans's most successful neighborhood revival stories.
Frenchmen Street Music Scene New Orleans LA
Frenchmen Street in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood is New Orleans's most active live music street for local music culture, hosting the Blue Nile, Spotted Cat, dba, Three Muses, and Snug Harbor in a three-block stretch that locals often prefer to Bourbon Street for its authentic New Orleans jazz, brass band, and blues music scene. Many consider Frenchmen Street the soul of New Orleans music culture.
Bourbon Street Entertainment District
French Quarter
Bourbon Street is the iconic entertainment artery of the French Quarter, a 13-block stretch of bars, live music clubs, restaurants, and neon lights open 24 hours. The street's open-container policy, daiquiri bars, Cajun restaurants, and continuous live music from jazz to rock make it one of America's most visited and photographed nightlife destinations — for better or worse.
Warehouse-Arts District New Orleans LA
New Orleans's Warehouse District along Magazine Street and Julia Street is the city's contemporary arts hub, with the Contemporary Arts Center, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, National WWII Museum, and numerous galleries creating an arts corridor that anchors the Crescent City's museum and gallery scene in converted 19th-century warehouses.
Highland Road Entertainment District Baton Rouge LA
Baton Rouge's Highland Road corridor along the LSU campus serves Louisiana's second-largest city and 35,000+ LSU student community with dozens of bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues in a university strip that is one of Louisiana's most active college-city entertainment districts.