Top Louisiana Music Tours

Go for a sunset cruise aboard the Paddlewheeler Creole Queen on this boat trip. Listen to an on-board jazz band and choose to add on a Creole-style dinner buffet as the boat sails along the Mississippi River. Take in the views from the promenade deck and sip New Orleans-inspired cocktails.

Stroll around Frenchmen Street, New Orlean's top nightlife spot for live music, on this VIP evening tour. Listen to guided commentary on the street's colorful history and visit some of the hottest nightclubs, one of which will serve you an included New Orleans-style cocktail. You can also peruse the Frenchmen Street Art Market to pick up some locally-made souvenirs.

Take a walk through 300 years of New Orleans’ musical history on this tour led by a local Louisiana record man. Discover how the city became the heart and soul of the American blues scene, and visit legendary music-making haunts including Preservation Jazz Hall, Place de Armes, the Royal Orleans Hotel and several recording studios. Stroll down iconic Bourbon and Frenchmen streets while hearing tales of local jazz and blues legends like Allen Toussaint, James Booker, Fats Domino, Louis Armstrong and more.

Experience New Orleans’ vibrant jazz scene on a night out with a knowledgeable local guide. Learn about jazz’s origins and culture and visit landmarks like Louis Armstrong Park, Marigny, or Frenchman Street. Your guide will have chosen a special route for you that evening- to ensure the best music is heard. Enjoy live jazz music and a drink and leave the tour armed with recommendations and insights from your guide.

There’s more to New Orleans than jazz alone, and this fascinating guided walking tour lets you look below the surface into its storied musical history. Visit the site where enslaved people performed their West African musical traditions; view the building that first housed the “New Orleans Sound”; admire the New Orleans Musicians Tomb; stroll through the remains of Storyville; see historic Preservation Hall; and so much more besides.

Combine cycling with partying with this nighttime bike ride for small groups of up to six people. You'll be provided with a light-up bicycle and glow bracelets before heading out on the town with your DJ guide to explore the French Quarter. you'll make plenty of stops along the way to eat, drink, and be merry.

This tour is meant to be a once-in-lifetime experience! During our half-day customized private tour you, your friends, and family will get to SEE ALL OF NEW ORLEANS IN JUST 4 HOURS. It goes by quickly as we will be driving in a tour vehicle with a bit of walking to take pictures with my 24MP 4KCamera at Beautiful Murals throughout the city. DO THIS ON YOUR FIRST DAY! We will visit local historic landmarks including: - French Quarter - Treme - Garden District - City Park/Cafe Du Monde - St. Louis # 3 Cemetery - Hurricane Katrina Damage/ Musicians Village - Uptown Mansions/Tulane University Delicious Beignets Midway through the tour! You will have the kind of undivided attention you just won't get to have on large group city tours. Please message me to tailor and customize this tour to your exact likes and interests. Whether if its Food, French Quarter Architecture, African American History, Jazz, or Murals. I'll help you leave New Orleans with a unique understanding.

Experience the unforgettable sounds of New Orleans on a 2-hour musical tour with an experienced guide. Learn about the efforts to protect New Orleans jazz at the Preservation Hall, then explore the historically vibrant Tango Belt. Visit unnamed and famous musicians at the New Orleans Musicians Tomb in St. Louis Cemetery #1 and hear the stories of Congo Square’s rhythms and rituals as you tour Louis Armstrong Park. See the former home of J & M Studios then learn about today’s New Orleans Bounce Music and thriving street music scene.

New Orleans is perhaps the world's richest, most vibrant, and influential musical city. Explore it on this walking tour that winds through Louis Armstrong Park, Congo Square, the Tango Belt, and ends at Preservation Hall. Learn about the West African music that started it all, the real birthplace of rock n' roll, and Storyville, a fabled red light district. Includes stops at J&M Studios, the French Opera House, and more.

Join us on this unique New Orleans’ music tour! Armstrong Park is named after one of the most famous jazz musicians in the world and one of New Orleans’ most beloved sons: Louis Armstrong. You’ll hear about jazz’s origins, resulting from a rich mix of cultures in a single city, which combined West African and Caribbean sounds with European musical influences - giving us this uniquely American artform. You won't stop there! Next, your local guide will bring jazz history to life by selecting a specially curated route to hear the best the music scene has to offer. You could make your way past Preservation Hall and the historic French market or head to the famous Frenchman Street, the largest concentration of live music venues in the city. Even stop for a drink on us! Whatever your musical interests, you’ll end this tour with a new appreciation for American music, New Orleans’ famous residents, and the art and sounds of jazz.

See the famous sights of New Orleans, without putting in the hours of research time, thanks to this expertly-crafted private guided walking tour. As you listen to commentary about the city’s history, stroll past the highlights of the French Quarter—including Bourbon Street and Cafe Du Monde. As well as teaching you about the city’s history, the tour is also a lesson about Dixie Jazz, and the famous Mardi Gras festival.

Get an insider's view of the New Orleans music scene with a sixth-generation New Orleanian as your guide! You'll visit some of the liveliest neighborhoods in town, including the French Quarter. Marigny, and Treme, visiting top music venues and talking about the city's musical history and traditions along the way.

New Orleans is world-renowned for its rich musical heritage, and the best way to expand your knowledge of this musical mecca is by exploring the French Quarter with a local musician. Tick off musical hotspots—including New Orleans Jazz Museum, and Frenchmen Street—and get invaluable advice on which venues to visit, and the best local bands to look out for.

Get ready to PARTY!! This 3-hour private tour will take you beyond Bourbon Street to the music clubs, and cocktail bars of Frenchmen Street, the live music capital of New Orleans. Frenchmen Street has been featured in many films and shows such HBO's Treme, The Simpsons, and the hit movie Girl's Trip. Drake also shot a large portion of his video for 'In My Feelings' on Frenchmen Street. Your tour will take you to hear some of the best live music at Frenchmen Street's hottest clubs, and give you an overview of the area's colorful history. At each venue, we will take the time to listen to live bands. At one of our venues, you will have a choice to have a bartender give you a demonstration of how Louisiana cocktails such as "Sazerac" or "Esplanade Lemonade" are made, and you will experience the Frenchmen Street scene. Don't forget to bring your camera! If you like eclectic and unique art, we will visit the Frenchmen Street Art Market as well.

When visiting the birthplace of jazz, meet some of the artists who are keeping New Orleans' musical traditions alive with this backstage meet-and-greet. Venture away from the tourist bars of Bourbon Street to catch a live act at a speakeasy club in the Treme neighborhood. After the show, chat with band members in person.

Discover the spirit of New Orleans as we tour iconic landmarks and neighborhoods that tell the story of the city’s incredible rebirth following Hurricane Katrina. Our New Orleans tour will pass through two beautiful neighborhoods, the French Quarter and Faubourg Marigny, both known for their architecture styles and vibrant music scenes that, thanks to their position above the Mississippi River, were spared from the 2005 storm’s floods. Among other neighborhoods known for music culture, you may be familiar with Tremé, where you’ll discover artists who called this neighborhood home as well as the site of beloved live music joint Ernie K-Doe Mother-in-Law Lounge. Many musicians’ livelihoods were affected by Katrina, and we’ll have a chance to reflect on this tragedy and lives lost at the Hurricane Katrina Memorial. After a tour stop at the levees breached during the storm, you’ll have a fuller picture of the city’s struggles and successes following one of the nation’s worst disasters.