Live Musician · Visit
Preservation Hall
New Orleans jazz in a candlelit room since 1961; a 45-minute set, all ages.
French Quarter, New Orleans
Explore the craftMake a little time for
New Orleans.
11 real places across 11 crafts. Classes, workshops and people worth meeting.
See every place in New Orleans →A few places to begin
Pull up a chair.
Line Cook · Class
New Orleans School of Cooking
Cook gumbo and jambalaya with a master chef in an 1800s warehouse, since 1980.
French Quarter, New Orleans
Explore the craft
Tour Guide · Visit
Save Our Cemeteries
The only nonprofit cemetery tour; a guide walks the cities of the dead, and the proceeds restore the tombs.
New Orleans
Explore the craftPhotographs show the crafts. They are not portraits of the listed studios.
Every place in New Orleans
Live Musician
Among HumansA small room, an unamplified voice, forty strangers holding still.
Line Cook
Human AuthorshipA hot kitchen, twelve tickets, a plate that tastes like a place.
Tour Guide
Among HumansA city has a thousand doors. They know which ones open.
Barber
Body & PresenceTwenty minutes in a chair with someone who has known your head for years.
Stage Actor
Among HumansNo retakes, no edits. Just a person, a room, and tonight only.
Market Vendor
Among HumansThey know your Saturday face. The good tomatoes are already set aside.
Bartender
Among HumansA machine can pour a measure. It cannot read the room.
Tattoo Artist
Body & PresenceHours in a chair, a stranger's steady hands, and a mark you carry for life.
Radio Host
Among HumansA voice in the dark keeping a stranger company, live, at an hour no algorithm cares about.
Pharmacist
Trust & JudgmentBehind the counter stands the person who makes sure the medicine that reaches you is the right one, at the right dose, for the right reason.
Trumpeter
Among HumansThe instrument that can announce a king or cry the blues, all from one pair of lips.
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