New Orleans Treme' Walking Tour
Description
Treme' (pronounced Tre-May) sits adjacent to the French Quarter and is the oldest African-American neighborhood in the United States. Treme' is a vibrant area steeped in music and culture. Come explore this iconic gem and revel in New Orleans Jazz history with its roots in Congo square and Storyville, the birthplace of such Jazz greats as Alphonse Picou and Trombone shorty.
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Itinerary
Guide will lead you through the old Storyville District while narrating the history of the area. A district associated with the early development of New Orleans-style jazz existed from 1897-1917. Romanticized by early historians as the birth-place of jazz, this red-light district included brothels, bars and dance halls where jazz artists performed and socialized.
Starting location for this tour with general Treme history
Explore the Treme neighborhood and its history with your guide. Includes multiple historic sites such as St Augustine's Church and the Tomb of the Unknown Slave.
where the enslaved and free people of color gathered throughout the 19th century for meetings, open markets, and the African dance and drumming celebrations that played a substantial role in the development of jazz.
Laundry and Museum, Rock n Roll Hall of Fame location. Former home of Cosimo's J&M Recording Studio where Fats Domino, Little Richard, Professor Longhair and more recorded some of their first music.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Be ready to have fun and please wear comfortable shoes. You may bring your camera. No Videotaping please. All tours run rain or shine.
Reviews(272)
Kweku was amazing!!! Soo knowledgeable and friendly!!He toured us the entire Treme neighborhood explaining about the birth of jazz while playing jazz music in his JBL speaker. You can ask anything about France and Spain colonialization to jazz musicians and birth of jazz and rock and roll, and he can literally answer them all with such in depth story telling flare and passion!! It was Soo enjoyable that our entire crew from Dallas, California and Australia just had such an absolute grand time!!! Thank yot sooo much, Kweku, for making our New Orleans experience simply amazing and rich with history and culture!! Best, Jane & Craig
This tour is amazing. Extremely informative and our guide was fantastic! Treme is an interesting and beautiful place
Incredible depth of social, legal, and political history of an amazingly rich neighborhood. This tour, with the music accompaniment, was one of the most interesting and informative walking trips around. A step above the other tours.
Erin was so knowledgeable and informative. Excellent tour of treme!!
Very informative tour and a great guide, Claire! Learned a lot of history and saw some important sites. I think I would've liked less volume of information during stops and more talking and walking and covering more ground/seeing more spots. I know there were a handful of other tour groups and we had to wait until they were done at different sites to shift to those spots. We sat in Congo Square/Louis Armstrong Park for a while on a bench receiving info and I think some info and then time to wander together or as a group could've been nice. I'm sure it's tough because there is so much to relay to create a foundation and provide context. Claire was great at making sure we found shade and answering questions. Our tour lasted a bit over two hours.
Our guide was very knowledgeable about the area. The history of the area and the musicians was very interesting.
Great tour of part of the Treme neighborhood! Our tour guide was knowledgeable, outgoing and showed an obvious love for the subject matter. A two hour tour can’t cover all the history of Treme but it did give us some great information. Highly recommend!
Kweku provided us with a fantastic tour of Treme. He was a wealth of knowledge giving us a history lesson on the birth of Jazz and how it evolved over time. In addition he talked about the Treme neighborhood and how it transformed over time. My favorite was how he incorporated the actual music into our walk so we could actually hear how it progressed and changed. Very educational. I highly recommend this tour.
Our tour guide Richard was excellent. He provided great information and was so respectful of the people that make up the Treme neighborhood. He included music as part of the tour and that was something we really liked. He really had a passion and loved his tour.
Our guide, Kwaqu, was wonderful. Very knowledgeable about the history and the area as well as the music. Very informative.
