Sponsored by Jerry Hammock
Unfortunately, This Festival Has Been Cancelled
The Club greatly disappointed that our favorite festival has been cancelled — French Quarter Festival in New Orleans!! Jerry Hammock had promised a weekend that would not disappoint, staying in our favorite boutique hotel on the edge of the Quarter, The Royal St, Charles, where Jerry had secured 
a special rate for the Club.
Watch details on this website and in your email for alternative event opportunities. But for now, we’ll have to wait til next for this annual event. 
About the Festival: It was first produced in 1984 as a way to bring residents back to the Quarter; following the World’s Fair and extensive sidewalk repairs in the French Quarter.
More than 1,500 community volunteers help to make the festival a success. French Quarter Festivals, Inc. is a private, non-profit 501c(3) organization. Chief sources of funding are: sponsorships, beverage and merchandise sales, vendor fees, and annual Gala.
More than 20 stages throughout the French Quarter celebrate local music and represent every genre from traditional and contemporary jazz to R&B, New Orleans funk, brass bands, folk, gospel, Latin, Zydeco, classical, cabaret, and international.
New Orleans great restaurants serve food and beverages in Jackson Square, the Jazz Museum at the Mint, JAX Brewery, and Woldenberg Riverfront Park during French Quarter Festival weekend. French Qu
arter Festival has been consistently voted “favorite festival”, “favorite food festival”, and “favorite event open to the public” by locals.
FQF hosts over 60 local restaurants which make up the culinary lineup at the Festival.
FQF employs only local companies during the Festival (sanitation, stages, sound, security, etc.). All money spent to produce the festival stays within the local economy.