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New Orleans Louisiana is known for it's World class musical events. It is after all the "Birthplace of Jazz," and on just about any given day or night of the week you can stop into the most unsuspecting place, a joint here, a tavern there, and be enchanted, moved and grooved by the most talented of musicians.

What I love about the music in New Orleans is that it is utterly unpretentious: It's cheap, it's plentiful and it comes directly form the soul - it is raw emotion in motion. Everybody who is "anybody" plays down there, and everybody who is nobody (all of us) gets "down" with it.

The French Quarter Festival, featured in this video, is but one of New Orleans' well known events. It is however lesser known than the Jazz Festival and therefore draws a smaller, more local crowd. The musicians in the French Quarter Fest are all well known local musician's (one of the criteria) and boy do they know how to get a crowd up on their feet!

The beauty of the French Quarter Fest is that you can actually roam the Quarter, and down by the river, listening to Big Band, Swing, Latin Jazz, Zydeco, Soul, Gospel and more while noshing on favorite foods from some of our Country's most notorious restaurants (Emeril's, K-Paul's, Arnaud's.....) You can break off from the crowd, breathe, spread out, come and go, and go at slower pace than the much touted and also wonderful Jazz Fest which takes place in the Fair Grounds and has a "one time entrance only policy." So, get ready to get out of your chair and up on your feet and join FatBellyTraveler for a tour of French Quarter Fest 07'.

And then pick up the phone and book your reservations for French Quarter Fest 08'!

Special Thanks to:
French Quarter Festival All Stars with Connie Jones
Leif Pedersen's Big Band
Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers
Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers
Marva White & the BMW's

Labels: French Quarter Fest, jazz, New Orleans

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In every great city throughout the world there is usually at least one place (a shop, service or experience) that stands out above the rest. It is most often a place that is soulful and unique amongst a backdrop of the predictable. A place that transports you to another time and place. A place that offers the type of experience that will charm you into pondering why everyone doesn't still do business in this way.
Hove' Parfumeur in New Orleans, Louisiana is just such a place.

Established in 1931 by Mrs. Alvin Hovey-King after the depression, turning a much loved hobby and passion into a business, she created fragrances reminiscent of Southern life and luxury. Fragrances such as Magnolia, Vetiver, Spanish Moss, and the renowned favorite Tea Olive (also known as Sweet Olive) these highly seductive blends will toy with your modern day values as they beckon you to a slower, more feminine way of life.

From the moment you walk down the charming French Quarter street, passed by horse drawn buggies as you enter the one-of-a-kind shop, it is an unforgettable step back in time. The cherry wood cabinets, the glass bottles filled with golden and amber liquids, the vintage graphics, the Fourth Generation service and of course the intoxicating aromas themselves.

It is a place that will seep into your skin, your memory, your soul. A romantic place that will ease your frenzied spirit and enchant everyone around you each time you dab a drop of Old World perfume on the nape of your neck.Visit Hove' Parfumeur in person or online. Allow yourself to be enchanted!
Hove' Parfumeur

824 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70116

504-525-7827

www.hoveparfumeur.com

Labels: French Quarter, New Orleans, perfume