NOIMC - About Us

Held annually in conjunction with French Quarter Festival, the New Orleans International Music Colloquium offers a two-day series of informal presentations, interesting panels and interviews dedicated to the music of New Orleans. Colloquium presenters are lively and entertaining; hands-on demonstrations often illustrate their lectures.

The goal of each colloquium is to give more and more New Orleans area researchers an opportunity to describe the origins and development of music in the Crescent City through their unique local perspective. The colloquium encompasses opera, traditional jazz, gospel, rythm and Blues, Brass Bands, and all of the music performed or recorded in New Orleans.

Join us this year during French Quarter Festival to experience the Colloquium and create your own definition of New Orleans music.

Colloquium Defined:
“Academic meeting at which specialists deliver addresses on a topic or on related topics and then answer questions relating to them.”