Published on:
March 27th, 2013
This past weekend the Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival took place at Louis Armstrong Park. The festival is New Orleans' premiere world music gathering, an event put on by The Jazz & Heritage Foundation to highlight the music and culture of the African Diaspora that has settled here in New Orleans.
The festival included the Class Got Brass competition - a chance for middle and high school bands from the greater New Orleans area to win up to $10,000 to purchase new instruments. The big winner of this 2nd annual competition was O. Perry Walker High School's The Chosen Ones Brass Band.
Whether or not you made it down to Armstrong Park, you'll enjoy perusing photo highlights from this year's Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival:
PHOTO GALLERY: Congo Square New World Rhythms Fest 2013
Dancers at Congo Square New World Rhythms 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Pedrito Martinez at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
N'Fungola Sibo African Dance coming offstage at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Congo Square New World Rhythms 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Congo Square New World Rhythms 2013. Photo by Matthew.
Congo Square New World Rhythms 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Culu Children's Traditional African Dance at Congo Square New World Rhythms 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Congo Square New World Rhythms 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Culu Children's Traditional African Dance at Congo Square New World Rhythms 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Moyuba at Congo Square New World Rhythms 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Herbert Motton of the Redhawk Hunters. Photo by LaWanda Smith.
Festival host Jorge Fuentes and Pedrito Martinez at Congo Square New World Rhythms Fest. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Tribute to Alfred "Uganda" Roberts at Congo Square New World Rhythms Fest 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
N'Fungola Sibo African Dance at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Africa Brass with OTRA at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Art market at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Salsa dancers at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Stooges at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Africa Brass with OTRA at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Art market at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Pedrito Martinez Band at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Dee-1 has the crowd going at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
WWOZ at Congo Square
African dance circle at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
African dance circle with Chuck Davis at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Zion Harmonizers at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Bamboula 2000 African at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Bamboula 2000 at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Fest goers and new friends with matching 'dos at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Kumbaku African Dance Collective at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Watching at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Band director preps his Class Got Brass group before they parade in front of the judges at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Class Got Brass judges at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Second lining in to the 2013 Class Got Brass competion. Photo by Melanie Merz.
McDonogh 35 performing before judges in the 2013 Class Got Brass competion. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Truth Universal at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Russell Shelton.
Stooges Brass Band at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Dee-1 and 3D Na'Tee join the Stooges onstage at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Students watching Stooges Brass band at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Red Baraat at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Red Baraat at Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival 2013. Photo by Melanie Merz.
Class Got Brass winners the Chosen Ones of O Perry Walker High School. by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee (http://rhrphoto.com/)
Class Got Brass winners the Chosen Ones of O Perry Walker High School. by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee (http://rhrphoto.com/)
Class Got Brass Competition. by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee (http://rhrphoto.com/)
O. Perry Walker High School Brass Band during the Class Got Brass Competition. by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee (http://rhrphoto.com/)
St. Mary's Dominican High School Brass Band during the Class Got Brass Competition. by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee (http://rhrphoto.com/)
West Jefferson High School Buccaneer Brass Band during the Class Got Brass Competition. by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee (http://rhrphoto.com/)
Warren Easton Charter High School Brass Band during the Class Got Brass Competition. by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee (http://rhrphoto.com/)
West Jefferson High School Buccaneer Brass Band before the Class Got Brass Competition. by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee (http://rhrphoto.com/)
