There is so much music in this city on any given day it is difficult to choose. It is a rainy Tuesday night the day after the BCS college football championship and the morning streets were jammed with visitors making their way back home. As the tide recedes New Orleans is left to herself with a myriad of choices to delight the ears on a quiet Tuesday evening. Margie Perez is playing at the St. Alphonsus Church as part of their series to bring more people into the beautiful local church. Which was originally built in 1855 by the Redemptorist Fathers to serve the religious and social needs of the Irish Catholic immigrants who began settling an area upriver from the French Quarter known as Lafayette City in the 1840s. It was one of a number of buildings forming a religious complex that once occupied five adjacent city blocks. Often referred to as “Ecclesiastical Square”, the complex included an orphanage, nine school buildings, a gymnasium, three churches, the priests’ residence and gardens, two convents, stables, a laundry and other supporting buildings. It was where Anne Rice attended when she was growing up in New Orleans. St. Alphonsus is well-known for its art and architecture. The frescoes and stained glass windows of St. Alphonsus are some of the most beautiful in the nation.
If you want something different, Opera on Tap is back again at the inn on Bourbon Street. Opera on Tap brings classic opera to the masses by performing classical works at local bars and watering holes. Bon Operati is playing this evening. If you want classical Dixie land you can board the Steamboat Natchez for the Dukes of Dixie Land. If you just need to shake your booty there are four places with brass Bands playing tonight. Finally if you want to get all the rabble of the football crowds out of your head, Joe Crown is playing jazz piano at Ralph’s on the Park. All of this on a quiet day in Crescent City.
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