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First Fridays at NOMA: Jazzy Fête
Fri, May 6th, 2022 at 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
#ExploreNOMA after hours.
The museum is open late night for an evening packed with musical performances, gallery tours, and special pop-ups.
Each month, the museum presents First Fridays at NOMA, an after-hours inclusive programmatic mix of live DJs and bands; local creatives speaking about their favorite works of art; a range of performance and dance; and unique experiences of all kinds in response to art from across time and place.
Participants will meet artists, get creative, and immerse themselves in New Orleans’s creative community.
Jazzy Fête | May 6
Join us for the perfect Jazz Fest afterparty with a night inspired by all that our city has to offer. This night includes live musical performances, gallery talks throughout the museum, art-making activities, and more.
Check out this month’s line-up below:
- Late night access to the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition Queen Nefertari’s Egypt
- A performance from Brad Walker & Extended in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts featuring live digital painting from Monica Kelly
- Music in the Great Hall from Hanna Mignano Trio
- A special oud lute performance from Creative Assembly Cohort member Joseph Darensbourg
- Jazz-inspired gallery talks
- An art-making activity designed for all ages
- A Queen Nefertari–themed menu and a full bar from Café NOMA*
$30 General Admission | $15 for Members
Because admission to Queen Nefertari’s Egypt is included with your ticket, you must select a timed ticket your visit. You’ll have access to the entire night’s events from 6 to 10 pm, but that selected time will be when you’re able to view this special exhibition. Even if you don’t plan to visit Queen Nefertari’s Egypt, you still need to select a time when checking out.
*Please note that food and drinks are not included in the ticket price. They are available for purchase directly from our partner vendors.
Brad Walker & ExtendedAn ongoing collaboration between two of the most compelling forces on the New Orleans creative music scene: Brad Walker, with a decade of award-nominated and nationally-reviewed records, creating alongside Extended, which features three of the leading lights of the jazz scene in New Orleans: Oscar Rossignoli (piano), Matt Booth (bass), and Brad Webb (drums). This project is the result of extensive work together during the Covid-19 shutdown, the culmination of which is a brand-new set of unique and compelling original music, developed together in isolation during some of the darkest months of the pandemic. |
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Monica KellyMonica Rose Kelly is an analog and digital artist offering fine art, murals and illustration through her business of 10 years, Monica Kelly Studio. She has worked extensively within the music community of New Orleans creating visual art for bands, festivals and music venues. Her new modality of live digital improv painting is a groundbreaking innovation in the performance arts, and she is thrilled to collaborate with some of our city’s best jazz musicians in presenting this new form of expression. |
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Hanna Mignano TrioThe Hanna Mignano Trio is a jazz manouche/New Orleans jazz band that combines their passion for music with a love for urban exploration. Led by violinist/composer Hanna Mignano, the group is heavily rooted in the gypsy jazz tradition in the style of Django Reinhardt’s Quintette de Hot Club du France, while drawing on such eclectic inspiration as New Orleans trad, Western swing, alchemy and the occult. When not performing at the usual haunts, they can be found creating musical sorcery within the forbidden, forgotten, forsaken corners of the city. |
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Joseph DarensbourgA performer of ethnic folk musics, Joseph Darensbourg is a singer, violinist, and percussionist member of Les Cenelles ensemble, which specializes in music inspired by resistance and protest poetry and Les Cenelles Gens de Couleur Libres, civil rights activists opposing the Code Noir during US Reconstruction. Joseph focuses on the Bayou Ballads plantation songs (1840s–80s). A bookbinder by trade—trained at the oldest bookbindery in the US (Harcourt, Boston)—Joseph is also a visual art alum of NOCCA, as well as a member of the oldest early music ensemble in the America, New Orleans Musica da Camera (founded in 1965, as was Joseph). Learn more about Creative Assembly Cohort member Joseph Darensbourg. |
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Mahmoud ChoukiNOMA is pleased to work with internationally renowned multi-instrumentalist and composer Mahmoud Chouki, who will organize musical performances for each First Fridays program in collaboration with museum staff. |
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First Fridays at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
