BINGO! field trips & TOURS

This cultural experience will take you on a stroll through the French Quarter, once know as Little Palermo as 80% of residents were of Italian descent.  You're guide from the Italian American Cultural Center will introduce you to many of these Italians including jazz great Louis Prima... New Orleans born, Sicilian descent, and the King of the Swingers. Prima's musical career spanned traditional jazz of the 1920's, swing music of the 1930's, and his 1940's band popularized jump blues. 

Big Easy Bingo, in partnership with the New Orleans Jazz Museum, has curated a cultural experience that will place you in the streets of New Orleans where the bamboula rhythm is heard in all the curves of the Crescent City. Our docents will introduce you to local master artists and culture bearers on a stroll through Congo  Square, Faubourg Treme, and Esplanade Ridge.  This  engaging experience will culminate at the New Orleans Jazz Museum with the special guests in each exhibit.  

This cultural experience will place you in the streets of New Orleans where jazz music still bubbles up in the most unique places. Specially trained docents begin with an historical jazz walking tour along the river and lower Quarter.  Guides explore the vast cultural influences that came up and down the river and influenced New Orleans music and gave rise to the great American art form, jazz.

Upon arrival at the Jazz Museum of New Orleans, Master Artists will greet guests and introduce the exhib