New Orleans Literary, Art & Music Tours

We had such a lovely time at Beanlandia! We loved learning about the history and community behind this space, and would definitely say it's a must-see when you go to NOLA.

Wow!! David has such a wealth of knowledge about music and history. He wove a wonderful account of how historical forces forged the evolution of American music. We highly recommend this tour!!!

This was such a magnificent and incredible experience! Our guide was so informed so knowledgeable has done so much research and provided so much information. It was overwhelming and beyond fascinating! He knew the history of the culture, the music, the people, the places everywhere we went and everything we engaged with was so interesting and he Provided so much knowledge about the history and center of New Orleans being a cultural beacon in the United States. this was one of the best tours I’ve ever been on. My friend and I were talking for days after the tour about how much fun it was and how special we felt just being the two of us getting to go on this amazing tour with this guy who knows so much. He’s working on a book. I can’t wait to read that when it is done and again I cannot thank him for the exceptional job he did and how wonderful he made our experience on this trip. I highly highly highly recommend this tour if you’re in New Orleans it’s a must do and want to thank you again for a magnificent job.

Fantastic tour covered so much music history of jazz and gospel and r and b Excellent information on how unique New Orleans is in America for its culture

David was an extremely knowledgeable tour guide! We were lucky enough to experience it one on one with him and he was charming and hilarious.

This tour was great!! David was very knowledgeable and a lot of fun! Would definitely recommend this tour to others!!

Great Tour, David was amazing and full of knowledge and History. We fully enjoyed even through the parade that was going on David kept us on track and never missed a beat. It's a must so much history in this tour.

Amazing guide and really informative, learnt a lot about New Orleans and the music scene from the 18th century until the 20th

Listening to the history of jazz and how music is integrated with food, culture, and dancing. Loved that my son was able to play piano with our wonderful tour guide.

Our tour guide was a fount of musical knowledge on New Orleans. He was engaging, personal, and had a wicked sense of humor. The only reason I gave my rating four stars instead of five was that we didn’t cover much physical territory. The tour mostly centered around Congo Square and Louis Armstrong Park.

The tour guide was very knowledgeable but I had a hard time hearing him. I would have preferred he slowed down and let us ask questions.

The tour guide was very informative. We enjoyed our tour and definitely learned some things from her.

David was not only knowledgeable, but entertaining. He showed us significant landmarks and provided sound bites and video snippets on his iPad to help us remember. He tailored the experience by asking us questions about our interests. We definitely recommend the experience to anyone interested in learning how New Orleans helped to evolve the music in America.

Lovely experience. We learned about music evolution in New Orleans, evolution through time, life of many artists but also about the history and social events related to music evolution. We loved it and highly recommend it

David was great. Energetic, happy, full of love for music. I’d recommend this & especially him to anyone!

Our tour guide David was very knowledgable about the history of New Orleans music and we learned a lot about the origin of jazz and its connection to New Orleans. He was also very engaging with the tour members and humorous as well.