presented by the Freret Market
2016 Freret Street Festival. Photo by Michael DeMocker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.
Thank you everyone who came out to Freret Street Festival. The weather was perfect. If you weren’t there, here’s what you missed:
Freret Street Festival 2016: photo gallery – Nola.com
Crowds pack the street for the 2016 Freret Street festival (Photos) – Uptown Messenger
The 2016 musical line-up for Freret Street Festival has been released! (Subject to change)
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY STAGE
Napoleon Avenue
11:00 am-11:45 am
Elysian Feel
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Dominic Minix Quartet
1:30 pm-2:00 pm
Nairobi Youth
2:15 pm-3:15 pm
Stoop Kids
3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Sexual Thunder
5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Tank and the Bangas
ALDER HOTEL STAGE
Valence Street
11:30 am-12:00 pm
N’fungola Sibo
12:15 pm-1:15 pm
Creole Stringbeans
1:45 pm-2:45 pm
Ceasar Brothers Funkbox
2:45 pm-3:00 pm
NOLA Capoeira
3:15 pm-4:15 pm
Wild Magnolias
4:45 pm-6:00 pm
Tribe Nunzio
HOME BANK STAGE
Soniat Street
11:00 am-12:00 pm
King James & the Special Men
12:15 pm-1:15 pm
Los Po-Boy-Citos
1:15 pm-1:30 pm
NOLA Capoeira
1:45 pm-2:45 pm
E’Dana & Divinely Destin
3:15 pm-4:15 pm
Marc Stone
4:45 pm-6:00 pm
James Andrews
If you are lucky enough to live close enough to walk to the Freret Street Festival, good for you!
If you drive, there is a free parking lot nearby on the corner of Magnolia and Cadiz Streets. Please be courteous to our neighbors when you park and do not block driveways. Be aware there is major construction going on Napoleon Ave and Jefferson Ave.
If you ride your bike, there is a complimentary bike valet by Bike Easy, at the corner of Freret and Jena. Please help keep sidewalks clear by parking your bicycle with Bike Easy. It’s free, secure and easy!
Via public transit, both the Freret #15 bus and Napoleon #24 bus will drop you off right here. Take the St. Charles Streetcar and transfer to the Napoeon bus or walk the 8 or so blocks. The Claiborne #16 bus is just 2-4 blocks away.
The 2016 Freret Street Festival is only 1 week away!
To find out who will be selling at the Festival, just click here: http://freretmarket.org/UpcomingMarketInfo
You can sort by category (ie. art, clothing. pets), see photos and visit their website.
At each intersection you will find food vendors, beverages plus seating so bring your appetite!
4 Of Us
A Bite Outside, LLC
Any O’Cajun
Beaucoup Juice
Big Wil & The Warden, LLC
Black Swan Food Experience
Chef Johnson Food Truck
Crepes a la Cart
Deirde Lewis
Direct Select Seafood
Diva Dawg Food Truck
Filasian Kitchen & Concession
Frencheeze Food Truck
Heaven’s Kitchen Catering
J&B’s Cuisine
Keedy Kandy confections
King Event
La Cocinita Food Truck
La Delyo’s Creole Catering
Lil Dustin’s Italian Ice
Mint Modern Vietnamese Bistro
Ms. Dee’s Catering Cuisine LLC
MyMe’s
New Orleans Kettlecorn & Lemonshakers
NOLA FOODS
Pirate Pizza Nola, LLC
rendon inns dugout sports bar & grill
Safari Meats
Saucy’s
Stickball NOLA
The Fry Bar
THE SPICE IS RIGHT
TouchStone Community Outreach
Tujagues
Woody’s Fish Tacos
Weekend Weather with
Dave Nussbaum of WWL-TV
A cold front will move through by Saturday Morning and this will bring us some slightly cooler and less humid weather for this weekend. A few showers will be possible for the Crescent City Classic Saturday Morning, but it will become sunny and windy by the afternoon with a high around 70.
Check out our Facebook page for photos and posts about everything happening at the Festival. –>
The Advocate has an article about the Festival and the restaurants on Freret Street. “On Freret Street, a bounty of food and drink”
The Festival is this Saturday! But you can find out now who will be there selling goods and food. Just click here: https://www.freretmarket.org/UpcomingMarketInfo
The 2015 Festival will feature 3 stages all local, live music and all free! Please visit the Music page for the schedule. (Artists and times subject to change)