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Mardi Gras New Orleans
Starts: 03/04/2025 - Ends: 03/04/2025
There is no better place to celebrate Mardi Gras than the Big Easy! When you're in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, there will always be plenty to do. It's the perfect opportunity to see some of New Orleans' biggest attractions, eat at great restaurants, and get to know the culture of the city.
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Beignet Fest
Starts: 11/16/2025 - Ends: 11/16/2024
Hailed by Garden & Gun and Southern Living as one of the best food festivals in the south, Beignet Fest is a premier food festival in Louisiana that highlights one of New Orleans's most iconic dishes with a full day of music and celebration.
At Beignet Fest, fest-goers try beignets topped or stuffed with a variety of sweet or savory delicacies. The festival's menu lineup includes more than 80 menu options with nearly 50 unique takes on beignets including vegan and gluten-free beignets.
Proceeds from the event benefit the Beignet Fest Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization established to raise awareness and support for programs in Greater New Orleans that serve autistic youth and their families.
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Bayou Bacchanal
Starts: 11/01/2025 - Ends: 11/02/2024
Bayou Bacchanal, the original Caribbean Carnival of New Orleans, is back to celebrate Caribbean culture and heritage. Presented by Friends of Culture, Bayou Bacchanal will include Caribbean cuisine, dance, and music during this two-day event celebration.
Friends of Culture helps to provide a cultural link between the Greater New Orleans region and the island nations of the Caribbean.
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Celebration in the Oaks
Starts: 11/29/2024 - Ends: 01/03/2025
Celebration in the Oaks is an annual holiday festivity from Thanksgiving through the New Year! It is one of the most spectacular holiday light shows in the country.
The grounds of New Orleans City Park are transformed into 25 acres of dazzling lights and breathtaking, festive displays. The Park, Botanical Garden, Storyland and Carousel Gardens Amusement Park are all captured with hundreds of thousands of lights to create a winter wonderland here in the Big Easy. There are two ways to enjoy the lighted displays:
- Enjoy the scene of illuminated oak trees with a driving tour throughout the park. Over a million lights will be scattered throughout the 2.25-mile drive to set the scene for the holiday season to come.
- You can also book a walking tour, which includes access to Carousel Gardens Amusement Park and the Botanical Garden.
As City Park's largest fundraiser, this incredible light festival has enchanted park visitors since the 1980s and is vital to the Park's maintenance, care, and beautification year-round. Tickets go on sale November 1st.
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Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival
Starts: 11/09/2025 - Ends: 11/10/2024
A free weekend celebration showcasing the music, food, and dance that made this city known worldwide!
R&B, Funk, Brass Bands and gumbo – live in beautiful Louis Armstrong Park! If you love brass bands and gumbo – or, better yet, enjoying some delicious gumbo while listening to brass bands playing live in beautiful Louis Armstrong Park – this is the event for you! Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival returns to Armstrong Park with lots of live music, and arts market, and of course, gumbo!
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Tour of the French Quarter History Galleries
Starts: 11/10/2024 - Ends: 03/08/2026
From fascinating stories about immigrant communities, artists, and musicians, to complex legacies of slavery and civil rights activism, immerse yourself in the many facets of New Orleans's oldest neighborhood. Join a 35-minute guided tour of our French Quarter History Galleries, featuring historic objects and images from the Historic New Orleans Collection's holdings that explore more than 300 years of French Quarter history.
Tours are offered at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
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NOLA ChristmasFest
Starts: 12/20/2024 - Ends: 12/30/2024
From December 20 - 30, experience NOLA ChristmasFest - the Crescent City's signature holiday celebration. Hosted by the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, this indoor holiday celebration is fun for the whole family.Returning with the theme “Best in Snow,” the Convention Center invites locals and visitors to enjoy a variety of festive attractions including fan favorites the Big Blizzard Blast, the Kringle Carousel and the life-sized Gingerbread House.
For details and tickets, go to the NOLA ChristmasFest website.
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Christmas Eve Bonfires on the Levee
Starts: 12/24/2024 - Ends: 12/24/2024
There are many colorfully imaginative traditions dating back to the earliest Cajun settlers of the regions of southern Louisiana to the west and north of New Orleans. One of them is the lighting of the bonfires along the Mississippi River on Christmas Eve.
At dusk, usually around 7:00 p.m., the structures are doused with flammable liquids and set ablaze, lighting the sky and the surrounding area with towering flames that would be impossible for Papa Noël and his reindeer to miss. The crowds that gather to watch these spectacular conflagrations enjoy a free show and, in some locales, free bowls of hot gumbo are served up by local residents. The blazes are often accompanied by displays of fireworks, set off by the fires themselves.
One of the best ways to ensure “a good seat” for a bonfire on the levee is to book a narrated motor coach excursion with Gray Line Tours. Two options are available: the four-hour Christmas Eve Bonfire Express, which only includes the bonfires, and the 6½-hour Christmas Eve Bonfire Adventure Tour, which includes a tour of San Francisco Plantation and a holiday dinner there.
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Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
Starts: 03/13/2025 - Ends: 04/06/2025
OH, WHAT A NIGHT!With phenomenal music, memorable characters, and great storytelling, Jersey Boys follows the fascinating evolution of four blue-collar kids who became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. Winner of Best Musical at both the Tony Awards® and Olivier Awards®, we'll take you behind the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons to discover the secret of a 40-year friendship that goes from the streets of New Jersey to the heights of stardom.
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Swan Lake in Metairie
Starts: 03/13/2025 - Ends: 03/13/2025
Experience the world's most in-demand ballet, “Swan Lake,” presented by Classical Arts Entertainment and performed by the State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine. A full-scale production features Tchaikovsky's legendary score, along with the exquisite Artistic Direction by Andrei Litvinov, bringing the masterpiece choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov to life. Be spellbound by the iconic variation of Little Swans, Odile's 32 fouettés, and the graceful movements of the talented Ukrainian dancers. With over 200 custom scenery pieces adding grandeur and beauty, this production promises to be a spectacular visual treat. Book your tickets now and be transported into a world of enchantment, where the beauty of dance and the power of love intertwine in a truly captivating performance. Join us to celebrate Classical Arts Entertainment's 10th anniversary with an unforgettable experience!
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Mardi Gras New Orleans
Starts: 02/17/2026 - Ends: 02/17/2026
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Mardi Gras New Orleans
Starts: 02/09/2027 - Ends: 02/09/2027
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Mardi Gras New Orleans
Starts: 02/29/2028 - Ends: 02/29/2028
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Mardi Gras New Orleans
Starts: 02/13/2029 - Ends: 02/13/2029
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Beignet Fest
Starts: 11/16/2025 - Ends: 11/16/2024
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Beignet Fest
Starts: 11/16/2026 - Ends: 11/16/2025
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Beignet Fest
Starts: 11/16/2027 - Ends: 11/16/2026
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Beignet Fest
Starts: 11/16/2028 - Ends: 11/17/2027
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Bayou Bacchanal
Starts: 11/01/2025 - Ends: 11/02/2024
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Bayou Bacchanal
Starts: 11/01/2026 - Ends: 11/02/2025
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Bayou Bacchanal
Starts: 11/01/2027 - Ends: 11/02/2026
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Bayou Bacchanal
Starts: 11/01/2028 - Ends: 11/03/2027
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Celebration in the Oaks
Starts: 11/29/2025 - Ends: 01/03/2026
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Celebration in the Oaks
Starts: 11/29/2026 - Ends: 01/03/2027
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Celebration in the Oaks
Starts: 11/29/2027 - Ends: 01/03/2028
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Celebration in the Oaks
Starts: 11/29/2028 - Ends: 01/03/2029
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Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival
Starts: 11/09/2025 - Ends: 11/10/2024
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Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival
Starts: 11/09/2026 - Ends: 11/10/2025
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Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival
Starts: 11/09/2027 - Ends: 11/10/2026
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Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival
Starts: 11/09/2028 - Ends: 11/11/2027
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Christmas Eve Bonfires on the Levee
Starts: 12/24/2025 - Ends: 12/24/2025
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Christmas Eve Bonfires on the Levee
Starts: 12/24/2026 - Ends: 12/24/2026
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Christmas Eve Bonfires on the Levee
Starts: 12/24/2027 - Ends: 12/24/2027
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Christmas Eve Bonfires on the Levee
Starts: 12/24/2028 - Ends: 12/24/2028
