$10 gets you admission to all music, screenings and other performances, as well as open bar from 7pm-2am, (Must be at least 21 with valid ID to enter) Other actitivites, services (such as food, psychic readings, etc) and shwag may have other charges. CASH ONLY at the event, please.

With so much great music in New Orleans, we couldn’t narrow it down…so we arranged three separate venues for music at Anba Dlo! There is something for everyone, something for every mood.

The Live Music Stage welcomes John Mooney with Kerry Brown on drums and Renee Coleman on bass, Coco Robichaux, Felice Guimont, The Reggae Revealers, Reverend Goat Carson on his own cow jaw harp creation and Chris Jones and the 101 Runners, featuring Mardi Gras Indians!
 
Underground Dance Groove will be provided by DJs Caleb Law a former House of Blues Friday night favorite. We will also feature Frenzi and Tom Harvey, founder of Karmic Foundation and past performer at The Audubon Hotel, Twi RoPa and many others. Tom has performed at Voodoo Music Fest for 6 of the last 10 years, as a DJ and drummer for Noomoon Tribe.

The Sacred Music Room will feature performances by Michael Skinkus, Hart McNee and Moyuba, a mix of sacred Santeria and Jazz, Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band sharing ecstatic kirtan yoga chant grooves,9 Ghosts featuring the dreamy music of Mark Darnell Marquez, and the uplifting voices of New Orleans' interracial gospel choir Shades of Praise. This space will also feature whirling trance dancers!

Staging, sound and light equipment provided by The French Market Association. Sound Engineering and Stage Production by Bernard Productions.

The Mardi Gras Indians have been a New Orleans tradition for over a hundred years! Big Chiefs in full costume will perform with Chris Jones’ band.

The World Cultural Economic Forum is sponsoring Anba Dlo and The New Orleans Hope and Heritage Film Festival. This introduces 17 film essays documenting the perspective of area residents and community leaders, such as award winning musician Anders Osborne, poet Andy Young and Barrister's Gallery owner Andy Antippas. Every film expresses a personal and loving tribute to New Orleans culture and way of life. Other videos include We Shall Not Be Moved, a music video by Kevin Malony, a documentary by Bess Carrick about The New Orleans Healing Center, and Louise Dantas’ inspiring feature on people working to rebuild New Orleans.

At 7pm, the video discussion panel will convene. Panelists include Jeffrey Ehrenreich (author), Andy Antippas (author), Pres Kabacoff (author), Sallie Ann Glassman (author and executive producer), Cherel Gerber (photographer), and Todd Schmidt (producer/director/ cameraman, music composer).
 

The Radical Faerie Parade and other neighborhood and community Costume Parades will end up at Anba Dlo and join in the festivites.

Randy Roman will MC Costume contest at 7 pm.

Anba Dlo will showcase fire dancers, trance dancers, belly dancers, and tribal dancers. These include Kryss Statho and Crescent City Dancers, Charlie "Shamsi" Pettus and Cameron Eaton, director of Isomorphic Productions. 

Acrobatic performances will be led by Lester Rogers of The Whirly Bones Collective, a featured performer at the upcoming Fringe Festival. His troupe consists of acrobats, gymnasts, and trapeze artists.
 

 People come from far & wide to consult with New Orleans’ psychics. This Halloween night, find some insight into your past, present and future.

The Healing Center that hosts Anba Dlo is an official Prospect.1 Biennial site, linking wide exposure of The St Claude Artist's Collective with an international arts-buying public. Artist featured include Barbara Brainard, Karoline Schleh, Carol Leake, Sallie Ann Glassman, Anastasia Pelias, Dennis Couvillion, Doyle Gertjejansen, Dawn Dedo, Niki Transome, Douglas Brewster, Hasmig Vartanian, Alex Podesta, Natalie Sciortino and Adrian Price.

Lorien Bales, Director of the Arts and Crafts Bazaar of the New Orleans Healing Center, will gather together artisans from the St Claude/St Roch, Marigny, Treme, Bywater, and 9th Ward neighborhoods in an exotic, Moroccan style bazaar.

Body painting by Bethany Dardant, Rose, and Mystic Blue Signs.

Live artists will be creating spontaneous works of art, including John Herasymiuk, Veronica Leandrez The onsite creation of a water sculpture from found Katrina debris led by Veronica Leandrez and Luis Culminaros and including Elly Maestros and Forest, will be unveiled at Midnight in a special ritual of Tribal Dance, Drumming and Healing Baptism

 Vendors include Suleyman and Fatma Aydin, creators of Del Forno, Mona Lisa’s, and Café Istanbul. Vegetarian food by the ISCON Krishna temple.

That’s easy! Click here for advance ticket and merchandise sales. Tickets, merchandise and raffle tickets will also be available at the event. CASH ONLY at the event, please!

Click here for map- The event is at 2372 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans. This is the historic Universal Furniture Building at the intersection of St.Claude and St. Roch in the Bywater neighborhood.

Parking is available on the street.

Yes, please bring valid ID.

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First of all, to bring the community together for a fun Halloween extravaganza!

La Source Ancienne Ounfo is hosting this event to bring attention , awareness and support for The New Orleans Healing Center (which is donating the use of its venue) and to the St Claude/St Roch, Marigny, Bywater and Upper 9th neighborhoods.

Healing the cultural infrastructure of such neighborhoods as the St Claude/St Roch and Upper Ninth Ward is an essential component of our mission. As an official Louisiana Passport event, Anba Dlo draws the community together and helps generate income for the neighborhood and many local performers. This event will bring public awareness to the potential of St Claude Avenue and its surrounding community. It will highlight revitalization and healing and herald economic opportunities, which honor the community’s unique and diverse heritage. There is something happening here that is developing out of pride and recognition of our greatest resources: our people and our culture.

Email info@neworleanshealingcenter.org Or call 504.948.9961