Thirty-eight jazz members of the Jacksonville Jazz Society, traveled together for a four-day adventure to the annual New Orleans The French Quarter Jazz Festival. The French Quarter Jazz festival featured over 1700 musicians on 20 music stages along the Mississippi River, The Jazz Museum, Jackson Square and many other nightclubs and venues, featuring Irma Thomas, PJ Morton, Cyril Neville, Big Freedia and so many more! They also ventured to Manderville, Louisiana for a presentation and tour of The Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall, founded in 1885, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is considered the oldest virtually unaltered rural jazz hall in the world. The Jacksonville Jazz Society non profit was founded with a vision of creating a jazz organization for jazz lovers and musicians, to ‘keep Jazz alive in Jacksonville’. For more info visit www.jacksonvillejazzsociety.org.