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    Rockin Dopsie & The Zydeco Twisters - Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do Do Stage - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2015
    Rockin Dopsie & The Zydeco Twisters - Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do Do Stage - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2015
    Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue - Acura Stage - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2015
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    New Orleans Festivals and Events

    With over 130 festivals a year, there's a celebration for everything and everyone

    With dozens and dozens of festivals a year honoring everything from pop music and po-boys to tomatoes and Tennessee Williams, the city offers visitors an array of colorful events most every weekend. So consult the festival calendar below and start packing. It’s a standing invitation.

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    09/29/2023 - NOLAxNOLA
    09/30/2023 - National Fried Chicken Festival
    10/06/2023 - Gentilly Fest
    10/06/2023 - Gretna Heritage Fest
    10/07/2023 - Que Pasa Fest 2023
    10/13/2023 - Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival
    10/13/2023 - Oktoberfest
    10/21/2023 - Krewe of Boo
    10/21/2023 - Treme Fall Fest
    10/26/2023 - Top Taco
    10/27/2023 - Nola Reggae Fest
    10/31/2023 - LGBT Halloween New Orleans (HNO)
    11/02/2023 - 34th New Orleans Film Festival
    11/03/2023 - Bayou Bacchanal
    11/11/2023 - 51st Annual Fall Festival
    11/12/2023 - Water Lantern Festival
    11/18/2023 - Sober Fest
    11/19/2023 - Oak Street Po' Boy Festival
    12/07/2023 - LUNA Fête
    12/24/2023 - Christmas Eve Bonfires on the Levee
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    Major New Orleans Events and Festivals
    NOLA is a city that knows how to throw a party and have a good time. Explore some of the biggest and best events that you must experience.
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    Festivals by Category

    • White Linen Night- Julia Street
      Art Festivals
      Art and New Orleans are inspired bedfellows. A city that celebrates dancing to a different drummer, New Orleans salutes the performing, visual and avant-garde art scene with festivals and special...
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    • Big Freedia - Jazz Fest
      Music Festivals
      Music plays a leading role in New Orleans. And while traditional jazz is revered here, New Orleans is tuned into all kinds of music expression. The calendar is dotted with music celebrations.
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    • Oak Street Po-Boy Festival
      Food & Drink Festivals
      New Orleans shares its passion for food and drink with a series of festivals where anyone can sample, sip or savor the city’s best-tasting offerings throughout the year. Po-boys, Creole...
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    • New Orleans Film Festival- Opening Night at the Orpheum
      Film, Theater & Literary Festivals
      A host of literary, theater and film festivals draw artists, writers, poets, directors, producers and creatives to share, listen, recite, workshop and present cutting edge work written and performed...
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    • N'Fungola Sibo Dance Theater - Congo Square New World Rhythms Fest 2017
      Multicultural Festivals
      Celebrating New Orleans culture is always done accompanied by food, music and art. And the diversity that has made New Orleans the vibrant, magnetic place that it is sets the stage for a kaleidoscope...
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    • LGBT Festivals
      LGBT Festivals
      When it comes to festivals, no one does it quite like our LGBT community. From Southern Decadence to Gay Easter and Halloween, everyone’s welcome here.
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    • Hogs for the Cause
      Festivals For a Good Cause
      Wining and dining in New Orleans is not just delicious; it can be for a good cause. With so many chefs heading up foundations to benefit local causes, festivals that donate a portion, or in some...
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    Festivals by Season
    • Fais Do Do dancers - Jazz Fest 2016
      Spring Festivals
      The last Mardi Gras parade may have rolled, but when spring has sprung in New Orleans, the good times are good to go.
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    • Pres Hall Brass Band - Satchmo Summerfest 2016
      Summer Festivals
      Don't let the heat keep you away from New Orleans. Embrace it. Revel in it. For one thing, the hotel rates are the lowest they’ll be all year.
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    • Emeril Lagasse Foundation's Boudin, Bourbon and Beer Festival
      Fall Festivals
      Fall in New Orleans means the temps and the humidity go down and the energy level in the city goes up. Now is the time to get out of the air-conditioning and onto a bike or walking path on the levee...
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    • Celebration in the Oaks
      Winter Festivals
      December, January and February in New Orleans means wonderful weather. More often than not, temperatures linger in the mid-70s. Leave your coat at home and get down here.
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