U.S.A. - Louisiana - Old State Capitol Building

OLD LOUISIANA STATE CAPITOL
The Old Louisiana State Capitol, a National Historic Landmark, is located in downtown Baton Rouge, next to the Mississippi River, and was designed by Architect James Harrison Dakin. Its floor plan,towers, exterior stained glass windows and gables give it the appearance of a 15th-century Gothic cathedral.

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The Louisiana's Old State Capitol is a building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States that housed the Louisiana State Legislature from the mid-19th century until the current capitol tower building was constructed in 1929.

It is built both to look like and function like a castle and has led some locals to call it the Louisiana Castle, the Castle of Baton Rouge, the Castle on the River or the Museum of Political History, though most people just call it the old capitol building. When someone says "Old State Capitol" in Louisiana they are probably talking about this building and not the two towns that were formerly the capital city; New Orleans and Donaldsonville. (read further)

USA - Louisiana - New Orleans Cemetery (Cities of The Dead)

CITIES OF THE DEAD
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Often called "Cities of the Dead", these unusual and unique burial vaults are all built above ground to escape intrusion by the high water table in this area.

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USA - Louisiana

THE PELICAN STATE
LOUISIANA
Characterized by its diverse culture, music, and food, Louisiana is a truly magical place. With its old southern roots and an ancestry made up of French and Spanish influences, Louisiana maintains the old-style charm of its past through its marvelous contributions to the world, including Jazz music, Cajun and Creole cuisine, and the spirit of the annual Mardi Gras festival.

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USA - Louisiana - Jazz New Orleans

PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ
726 St. Peter Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is considered the birthplace of jazz. The finest in traditional New Orleans jazz is performed at Preservation Hall by jazzmen of the old school.

This is from Wikipedia : Preservation Hall Jazz Band is the name for numerous groups of traditional jazz musicians from New Orleans playing there and on tours as organized by Preservation Hall. The participants in the groups have varied during the years since the founding of the hall in the early 1960s.

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band usually performs nightly at Preservation Hall and tours around the world for more than 150 days a year. Hurricane Katrina, however, forced Preservation Hall to close through the fall and winter of 2005. Although the building remained shut until April 2006, the band continued to tour while the hall was closed.

Music groups performing at Preservation Hall predated the name "Preservation Hall Jazz Band". The late Allan Jaffe, a young tuba player who had taken over running the hall, organized tours for the musicians who often performed there, naming the band after the venue. He often played tuba in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. His son, Ben Jaffe, a double bass player and tubist, now leads and performs with the band.

The band has been touring the United States for more than twenty-five years. They seek to preserve the distinctive music that evolved in New Orleans and to bring it to contemporary audiences.

Although similar music sometimes is described now as "Dixieland Jazz", there are distinct characteristics of traditional New Orleans jazz that are not shared among performances often bearing the "Dixieland" label. The latter often is considered as commercial exploitation and distortion of a pure tradition and, therefore, a strict differentiation between the two is made by admirers of what they recognize as "New Orleans Jazz". One may find the term used among traditional New Orleans musicians prior to the change in perception.

The band made a brief appearance in the 1965 film The Cincinnati Kid, including a close-up of pianist and vocalist Emma Barrett.

In 2006, the band was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

USA - Louisiana - Twillight Swamp

TWILLIGHT SWAMP
Louisiana
The sun disappears and a quiet peace settles across the Louisiana cypress swamp.

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USA - Louisiana - Mapcard

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USA - Louisiana - New Orleans - Mardi Grass

Escape reality, masquerade as someone else for a day ... Mardi Grass is magic!

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