Musical Legends Park
Bronze statues of beloved local musicians in a courtyard with free live jazz every morning.
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This guide to Musical Legends Park in New Orleans opens with the bronze statue of Fats Domino and the four days in September 2005 when the city believed he had died. It traces how Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters reached the Lower Ninth Ward where Domino had lived his whole life, how his wife Rosemary's illness kept them from leaving, and how his agent and family lost contact with him entirely, down to the words spray-painted on his house. Beside his statue stand seven other bronze legends, on ground that spent sixty years as an electric company lot before becoming a stage for the city's musicians. Live jazz still plays here every morning, free.
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