There is music played/performed on every street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. My favorite player was a man who was playing many instruments all at the same time. He had a drum, harmonica, guitar, and singing all at once. Music is how the locals express themselves. If you step into any shop, bar, club, restroom, there is music playing. Most of the time there are people who are dancing in the streets along with the music. This morning in particular there were trumpets parked outside of Cafe Du Monde performing. All of the music is loud and can be heard from a couple blocks away. Another performer that was incredible in my opinion is the woman playing with roughly five other people. She had a clarinet and could hold a note for over a minute at a time. Anytime you thought that she was going to run out of air, she'd keep the same note going. The other time that I think music was impactful for the entire city was during the Joan of Arc parade when the drums were being beaten on to further dramatize her being burned with fire. The music in the bars is more pop culture current music rather than jazz music like what's heard in the streets. The difference between music coming out over speakers versus music played live is astonishing. The live music hasn't been fine tuned and "gone over" before being released into the world. The live music is practiced and learned over time, and is difficult to perform when you have more than one person performing.
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