New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music

New Orleans is a city where cultural tradition matters. In New Orleans there is a balance between innovation and tradition. Improvisation never comes out of nothing. It is always rooted in history  . . . in New Orleans. So this is an environment where people sort of backslide into the future.

Bruce Boyd Raeburn

I’d say that churches and bars are the two most important places in New Orleans.

Bill Taylor

H/T to Shannon Selin. Littered with some of the standard cliches for the first 5 minutes, but then it gets going.