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X-WR-CALNAME:New Orleans · free · this weekend · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Market Morsels DTSTART:20260918T170000Z DTEND:20260918T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T121350Z UID:10003291-1789732800-1789736400@www.frenchmarket.org CATEGORIES:food,free,market DESCRIPTION:MARKET MORSELS is a presentation by the French Market District that combines live storytelling with a cooking demonstration\, noon -1pm! See\, hear\, smell\, and taste this performance hosted by the Gumbo Queen of New Orleans. Guests are invited to sample delicious local delicacies a nd regional favorites in the historic Farmer’s Market. FREE and open to the public. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T121350Z LOCATION:Farmers Market\, 19 French Market Place\, New Orleans\, LA\, 7011 6\, United States URL:https://www.frenchmarket.org/event/market-morsels-2/2026-09-18/?utm_so urce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=new-orleans-la X-SOURCE-NAME:French Market District X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.frenchmarket.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mandeville Live :: Free Friday Concerts :: Voodoo Gumbo :: Mandevi lle Trailhead :: Mandeville DTSTART:20260918T233000Z DTEND:20260919T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260915T062015Z UID:10032551-1789756200-1789763400@neworleansmom.com CATEGORIES:free,music DESCRIPTION:Grab your blankets and lawn chairs and kick off the weekend at the Mandeville Trailhead with Mandeville Live! Free Friday Concerts. The six-week fall concert series\, September 18 to November 6\, features an ex citing lineup of popular Louisiana artists performing everything from rock and blues to funk\, country and Cajun favorites. Concerts are held from 6 :30 to 8:30 p.m.\, so come early to claim your spot on the lawn. \nFall 20 26 LINEUP: \nSep.18 – Voodoo Gumbo\nSep. 25 – Phunky Monkeys\nOct. 2 – Soul Revival\nOct. 23 – Four Unplugged\nOct. 30 – Amanda Shaw\nNov . 6 – Red Hot Gentilly Peppers\n\n\n\nThe concerts are free to the publi c. Food trucks will provide food and drinks for purchase. Attendees are as ked to assist the City of Mandeville in keeping the concerts free by suppo rting its vendor partners. Outside food\, drinks\, and coolers are not per mitted. \nDates are subject to change due to inclement weather. Postponeme nts and cancellations are announced on the City of Mandeville’s social m edia. \nFor more information\, visit www.ExperienceMandeville.org or call 985-624-3148. LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T062015Z LOCATION:Mandeville Trailhead\, 675 Lafitte Street\, MANDEVILLE URL:https://neworleansmom.com/event/mandeville-live-free-friday-concerts-m andeville-trailhead-mandeville/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm _campaign=new-orleans-la X-SOURCE-NAME:New Orleans Mom X-SOURCE-URL:https://neworleansmom.com/event/westwego-farmers-market-sprin g-fest-and-egg-hunt-westwego END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:13th Annual Art Jam DTSTART:20260919T150000Z DTEND:20260919T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260819T180717Z UID:10000234-1789812000-1789822800@bizneworleans.com CATEGORIES:arts,family,festival,free DESCRIPTION:13th Annual Art Jam \nKID smART will host its 13th annual Art Jam from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Sept. 19 at the André Cailloux Center\, 2541 Bayou Road\, New Orleans. The free\, family-friendly arts festival wi ll feature hands-on activities\, arts workshops and live performances led by KID smART teaching artists and community partners. Entertainment will i nclude T-Ray the Violinist\, Dancing Grounds youth performers\, Mudlark Pu ppeteers\, Young Starz and One Mind Brass Band. \nAdmission is free. LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T180717Z URL:https://bizneworleans.com/event/13th-annual-art-jam/?utm_source=caldis covery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=new-orleans-la X-SOURCE-NAME:Biz New Orleans X-SOURCE-URL:https://bizneworleans.com/nola-chamber-announces-3rd-quarter- events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ART JAM! :: NOLA DTSTART:20260919T150000Z DTEND:20260919T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T060201Z UID:10031338-1789812000-1789822800@neworleansmom.com CATEGORIES:arts,family,festival,free DESCRIPTION:This 13th annual free family-friendly arts festival is a commu nity celebration of all things art\, education and joy that features hands -on activities\, live performances\, arts-based workshops and more! Event activities will be led by KID smART teaching artists as well as Art Camp 5 04\, NOLA Artist Incubators\, Whole Village Art Therapy\, New Orleans Publ ic Library\, Glass Roots\, Pixie Dust\, Cupcake Fairies\, Community Book C enter\, Twinimation and more. Children will have the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in workshops. In addition\, this event will feature liv e entertainment by T-Ray the Violinist\, Dancing Grounds youth performers\ , Waldorf School student performances\, behR Connect performance\, Mudlark Puppeteers\, Young Starz\, One Mind Brass Band and a read aloud workshop. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T060201Z LOCATION:Andre Cailloux Center\, 2541 Bayou Rd\, New Orleans\, Louisiana\, 70119 URL:https://neworleansmom.com/event/art-jam-nola/?utm_source=caldiscovery& utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=new-orleans-la X-SOURCE-NAME:New Orleans Mom X-SOURCE-URL:https://neworleansmom.com/event/westwego-farmers-market-sprin g-fest-and-egg-hunt-westwego END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Culture & Cuisine DTSTART:20260919T170000Z DTEND:20260919T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T121350Z UID:10003243-1789819200-1789822800@www.frenchmarket.org CATEGORIES:festival,food,free DESCRIPTION:Stop by the Farmers Market Performance Stage for an interactiv e hour with New Orleans Black Masking Indians and a festive cooking demons tration with Gumbo Marie. Free samples of New Orleans favorite dishes will be available while supplies last. Free and open to the public. Saturday\, 12pm-1pm. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T121350Z URL:https://www.frenchmarket.org/event/culture-cuisine/2026-09-19/?utm_sou rce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=new-orleans-la X-SOURCE-NAME:French Market District X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.frenchmarket.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sunday Sounds DTSTART:20260920T190000Z DTEND:20260920T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T121350Z UID:10003471-1789912800-1789916400@www.frenchmarket.org CATEGORIES:free,music DESCRIPTION:Visit the French Market on select Sundays in July at 2pm for a free concert by local New Orleanian Smoky Greenwell. Smoky a regular Fren ch Market vendor\, brings the blues alive with a uniquely New Orleans flai r. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T121350Z URL:https://www.frenchmarket.org/event/sunday-sounds-2/2026-09-20/?utm_sou rce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=new-orleans-la X-SOURCE-NAME:French Market District X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.frenchmarket.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Everette Maddox Memorial Reading Series DTSTART:20260920T213000Z DTEND:20260920T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T061736Z UID:10001262-1789921800-1789927200@litwire.org CATEGORIES:free,literary DESCRIPTION:Sundays at 4:20 pm \nThe Maple Leaf Bar hosts the longest cont inuously running poetry reading series in North America. It is free and op en to the public. The poetry series has been a platform for a great divers ity of writers to present their work\, from the published and well-establi shed to the novice poet alike. The reading series was founded in 1979 by F ranz Heldner\, Bob Stock\, and the consummate poet laureate of the Maple L eaf Bar\, Everette Maddox. \nThe series gained popularity around the same time that James Booker\, the flamboyantly wonderful one-eyed piano virtuos o\, held court at The Leaf. Everette Maddox\, another well-loved outrageou s personality of the time\, helped popularized the series with his humor\, charisma and whit. Maddox ran the series for nearly 10 years\, until his death in 1989. Since then\, the torch has been carried on by poet Nancy Ha rris aka “Ape Woman.” \nTo date\, there have been four published antho logies of poets who have read their work at the Maple Leaf: The Maple Leaf Rag (1980)\, The Maple Leaf Rag 15th Anniversary Anthology (1994)\, the M aple Leaf Rag III (2006)\, and Maple Leaf Rag IV (2010). \nAdditionally\, the Maple Leaf is portrayed in many books and stories by New Orleans write rs. It is thinly disguised as “The Raintree Street Bar” in the Ellen G ilchrist short story “The Raintree Street Bar and Washerteria” (The Le af was once a small Laundromat). Poems inspired by the Maple Leaf or about the bar can be found in Mirror Wars and Shards\, by Nancy Harris\; Body a nd Soul and Rhythm & Booze\, by Julie Kane\; and The Everette Maddox Song Book\, Bar Scotch and American Waste by Everette Maddox. \nAmerican Waste is a collection of Maddox’ final poems\, written at the Maple Leaf\, Mud dy Waters (which was once located across the street) and at the Carrollton Station. Maddox penned the final version of his poems on bar napkins\, fl iers\, and beer coasters which were collected by Hank Staples\, the curren t owner of the Maple Leaf Bar. After Maddox’ death\, his friends decided to publish the posthumous collection of poems. \nThe readings are held ev ery Sunday at 4:20 p.m. If you are going to be in New Orleans and would li ke to read\, please contact us at least a month or more in advance. \nFor more info\, go to: https://www.mapleleafbar.com/poetry-night or contact N ancy Harris on Facebook. LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T061736Z LOCATION:Maple Leaf Bar\, 8316 Oak St\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70118\, United States URL:https://litwire.org/event/the-everette-maddox-memorial-reading-series/ 2026-09-20/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=new-orlean s-la X-SOURCE-NAME:LitWire X-SOURCE-URL:https://litwire.org/venue/miel-brewery-taproom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Third Sunday Concert — Matt Lemmler with Pedro Segundo DTSTART:20260920T220000Z DTEND:20260920T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260912T223109Z UID:150588-1789923600-1789927200@www.edola.org CATEGORIES:free,music DESCRIPTION:THE THIRD SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES \nThird Sunday Concert sponsor ed by Christ Episcopal Church\, Covington \nSunday\, Sept. 20\nPerformer: Pianist Matt Lemmler\, accompanied by percussionist Pedro Segundo\, perfor ming “New Orleans Stride Songs and Psalms”\nTime: 5–6 p.m. (Doors op en at 4:30 p.m.)\, followed by reception for artists and guests\nThe Atriu m at Christwood Retirement Center\, 100 Christwood Boulevard (enter gates located off East Brewster Road near its intersection with Louisiana 21) \n The 36th season of Third Sunday Concert Series will kick off Sept. 20 at C hristwood with Matt Lemmler The Third Sunday Concert Series will begin its 36th season as an outreach of Christ Episcopal Church\, Covington\, on Su nday\, Sept. 20\, with a performance by noted pianist Matt Lemmler\, accom panied by percussionist and drummer Pedro Segundo. \nThe September concert will be held at The Atrium at the Christwood Retirement Community in orde r to accommodate ongoing renovations underway at the Christ Church\, Covin gton\, campus. The gated entrance to Christwood is located on Christwood B oulevard\, just off East Brewster Road near its intersection with Louisian a 21. After entering Christwood look for signs directing traffic to The At rium. \nThe one-hour Third Sunday Concerts are held monthly from September through May. Admission-free and open to the public\, they offer a variety of musical genres performed by professional artists. Each concert is foll owed by a reception with refreshments for the artists and audience members . The performances begin at 5 p.m. (doors open at 4:30 p.m.). At the Sept. 20 concert at Christwood\, titled “New Orleans Stride Songs and Psalms\ ,” Lemmler will use his New Orleans perspective for a jubilant explorati on of how the classic stride piano style can embrace a variety of differen t songs\, including sacred pieces. \nRaised in the Lower 9th Ward of New O rleans\, Lemmler has a bachelor of music degree from Loyola University\, N ew Orleans\, and a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. During his early years he honed his musical prowess by col laborating with esteemed bandleaders from New Orleans\, including Bob Fren ch and The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band\, Herb Tassin and The Blue Room Orche stra\, and the renowned jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain. \nPresently\, he p erforms at concerts and several New Orleans venues\, including aboard the Steamboat Natchez with the John Mahoney Little Band\, and at Sunday mornin g jazz services at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Harvey and at the 5 p. m. service at Christ Church\, Covington. Lemmler is also a professor of ja zz piano/improvisation at Loyola. \nLisbon-born Segundo has a rich backgro und spanning classical orchestral percussion (including working as a guest timpanist with the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields in\nLondon) and deep roots in jazz\, funk\, and world rhythms. He is also a prominent fixt ure in the New Orleans music community\, frequently performing at Tipitina ’s\, Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro and the Maple Leaf Bar\, and often collabor ating with Jon Cleary and The Absolute Monster Gentlemen. \nphoto provided : Matt Lemmler \nNote:\nThe Third Sunday Concert Series will return to its regular venue at Christ Church’s\nCovington campus on Oct. 18 with sele ctions by the Loyola Opera Workshop. Other concerts\nscheduled for 2026-27 include harpist Patrice Foster and Arpa on Nov. 15\; holiday selections b y\nLouisiana Brass led by Erik Morales on Dec. 20\; classical pianist Dian a Tracher on Jan. 17\; New\nOrleans jazz by Oscar Rossignoli on Feb. 21\; selections on flute and piano by Sarah Schettler\nand Lillia Oliinyk on Ap ril 18\; and\, Louisiana Blues by Chris Thomas King on May 16.\nThe concer ts are offered at no cost through the generous support of the Christ Episc opal\nChurch\, Covington\, congregation and the community at large. For in formation on how to\ncontribute to the Third Sunday Concert Series contact the church office at 985.892.3177. LAST-MODIFIED:20260912T223109Z LOCATION:Christwood Retirement Community\, 100 Christwood Blvd\, Covington \, LA\, 70433\, United States URL:https://www.edola.org/event/third-sunday-concert-matt-lemmler-with-ped ro-segundo/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=new-orlean s-la X-SOURCE-NAME:The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.edola.org/photographs-20th-annual-bach-around-the -clock-at-trinity-new-orleans END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR