NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS “New Orleans Funk From Fats to The Meters"

The Krewe of DADs, Nobool Presents and The Hook and Ladder have teamed up with NOLA Funk Fest and The Louisiana Music & Heritage Experience to bring you this special late-night New Orleans Funk show featuring the New Orleans Suspects, playing songs From Fats to The Meters. Join us for the New Orleans Suspects outdoor set as well. Buy an All-Night ticket package or a reserved seat! New Orleans Suspects began playing together in 2009 as a pick-up band at the Maple Leaf in New Orleans. Comprised of some of the most seasoned, highly respected players in NOLA, the group called themselves The Unusual Suspects. Their chemistry was undeniable and by the summer of 2011 they decided to tour full-time, renaming the band New Orleans Suspects. They quickly began attracting large crowds from San Francisco to New York. They have currently released five albums and established themselves as one of New Orleans’ best supergroups. ============== NOLA Funk Fest is the coming out party for The Louisiana Music & Heritage Experience, a museum of grand scale dedicated to the preservation of Louisiana’s rich musical history. This festival features programming that gives attendees a taste of what the museum will offer. The 2023 festival featured an exhibit titled I Found My Thrill: The Music and Artistry of Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew, which continues its run at the New Orleans Jazz Museum through September before embarking on a state-wide tour. At NOLA Funk Fest 2024, a new exhibit on Louisiana Blues made its debut at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Festival programming also includes symposiums where oral histories, flavored by musical performances, highlight impactful legacies of Louisiana's music history. Our goal for this festival is to draw attention and help make our dream of giving Louisiana the museum it deserves a reality. Our goal for the museum is to preserve the evolving Louisiana music history to educate, inspire and empower. We also aim to pay our local artists above market rates. The Louisiana Music & Heritage Experience (LMHE) is a forthcoming museum of grand scale dedicated to the preservation of the state’s rich musical history. LMHE will tell the story of Louisiana’s music from the African-American, Native American, French and Spanish influences through all genres of today. An educational institution, LMHE will use exhibits, live music, storytelling with music and interactives to empower and inspire. LMHE will incorporate training programs for musicians, as well as stage, light and sound managers and others. Asynchronous learning programs with lesson plans for teachers will be available for all ages from elementary school to adults so the world will know our story.