LOS ANGELES – The City of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Heather Hutt will host New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell for the unveiling of the New Orleans Corridor on June 17 in South Los Angeles.
Hutt, and the Los Angeles Jazz Festival Foundation will host the dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly named, “New Orleans Corridor”, which spans from Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church to Harold & Belles Creole Restaurant.
The New Orleans Corridor will honor the historical migration of Creole and African American families from Louisiana to their settling in Los Angeles during a violently tumultuous period in the South.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, and former San Francisco Mayor, Willie Brown, will join other dignitaries and musicians to mark the occasion.
Immediately after the ribbon-cutting, Hutt, Bass, Cantrell, and Brown will lead a New Orleans style ‘Second Line’, featuring the New Orleans Brass Band and a local brass band from the Fernando Pullum Youth Arts Center in South LA.
They will parade from the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church to the well-known Creole restaurant, Harold & Belles. Festivities will continue with a free series of live music performances featuring award-winning artists from both cities.
- Irvin Mayfield – Grammy Award-winning trumpeter from New Orleans
- Terrace Martin – A three-time Grammy-nominated artist raised in the Crenshaw District
- 1500 or Nothin – An ensemble group led by Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles natives Larrance Dopson and James Fauntleroy II.
The free concert will be located on the main stage in front of Harold & Belles, at 2920 W. Jefferson Blvd, LA, CA 90018.
The events of the day are being produced by the Los Angeles Jazz Festival, led by Founder & President, Martin Ludlow.
The Los Angeles Jazz Festival will debut on Dockweiler Beach in August 2024 as the first full-scale international jazz festival in the history of Los Angeles. The festival will offer 29 days of free music events throughout Southern California, including a ‘New Orleans Stage’ that will showcase the best of New Orleans’ jazz scene, further cementing the New Orleans-to-Los Angeles connection.
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