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- Les Cenelles performed and presented with Dr. Lloyd Pratt at the Historic New Orleans Collection on Saturday, October 4, 2-3:30PM Presentation and 3:30PM-4:30PM Reception.
- REGISTER TODAY!!!! Resistance and the Three Centuries of Les CenellesLes Cenelles (in collaboration with Sultana Isham, Li Harris, David D’Omni and Dr. Ian Condry) performed at the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s Cistern for the Underground Sounds program on September 11-14.
- Joseph Darensbourg and Denise Frazier held workshop with The Baby Dolls of New Orleans and performed at Dillard University on August 31, 2025.
- Joseph Darensbourg and Denise Frazier performed at the Dillard University Staff and Faculty Leadership Institute, August 2025.
- Ti Piti: A Louisiana Musical Cultural Hour with Les Cenelles. Louisiana Children’s Museum. Saturday, February 15, 1:30PM.
- Soul, Soléy, and Soil: The Sound of Les Cenelles, Artist, Tradition Bearers, and Coastal Issues Working Group; Wednesday October 16, 7PM
- MUSIQUE(S): Created for the American Folklife Center – and to be made available in the permanent archives of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. – Musique(s)! celebrates Louisiana’s rich tradition of music sung in French and Creole. An ambitious project, Musique(s)! will result in the creation of an album and publication, as well as the release of a film and an exhibition that will be presented at the Historic BK House & Gardens in early 2025.The song recordings and filming of the interviews took place at Esplanade Studios in August 2024, with six musicians and bands: Leyla McCalla (Grammy winner), Louis Michot (Grammy winner, Sweet Crude, Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, Les Cenelles, and the Baby Dolls. August 2024.
- Keywords for Black Louisiana Keywords for Black Louisiana: Enslaved and Free in Gulf Coast Louisiana uses the Louisiana Colonial Documents Digitization Project as a resource for surfacing submerged Black and Indigenous histories, drafting a corpus of keywords that map the rich texture of Black and Indigenous people in this region. This performance was with our beloved Les Cenelles string family, Sultana Isham. August 2024.
Gulfexhibition opening with scholar and artist Imani Jacqueline Brown. Storefront for Art and Architecture. Golpe Gulfo. SoHo, Manhattan, New York City. June 22, 2024.- International Jazz Day, Jazz from Jax Brewery with host T.R. Johnson, WWOZ Radio, Bvlbancha, April 2024, featuring multimedia artist James Goedert
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2024; Live From the Foundry: A Stone of Hope, featuring multimedia artists Lisa E. Harris, Antonio Garza and James Goedert
- Invisible Rivers with Mondo Bizarro, March/April 2024
- Creole Solidarity Performance, Carnegie Museum of Art, Collaboration with Artist and Activist Imani Jacqueline Brown, October 5, 2023
- Katrina National Memorial Foundation July 29th 2023 – With Don Vappie
- Rivers Connect (Atchafalaya to Amazonia) Boucherie – Sponsored by Another Gulf is Possible & Monique Verdin – alongside Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, Louis Michot & Corey Ledet – January 21 2023
- Les Cenelles @ Congo Square – Super Senior Sunday by Guardians Institute & Congo Square Preservation Society – November 13 2023
- Featured Performance for the Joint Conference of the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, & Society for Music Theory’s “Music & Climate Change” Panel – Tulane University – November 10th 2023
- Rising Water, alongside the Astralis Duo – Rogers Memorial Chapel Tulane University – November 9th 2023
- WWOZ 90.7FM Live on the Radio – With TR Johnson
- Sick Notes presented by Goat in the Road Productions – Beauregard Keyes House – April 8th 2022
- Hot Grits as part of the Core Memory Gallery Exhibition – Newcomb Gallery of Art Tulane University – May 4 2022
- Words & Music at the Guardians Institute, documented by Gian Smith on November 14th 2021 – live streamed as part of the Words and Music Literary Festival on Nov 19th 2021
- Rise at Seeds & Beats Wildflower Meadow – presented by the Water Leaders Institute – June 24 2021
- Rise with Melange Dance Company – Longview House & Gardens – April 24 2021
- Rise in St James Parish, at the site of an undocumented grave of enslaved ancestors, in resistance to the proposed formation of Formosa Plastics Plant – Black history month essay contest awards ceremony – Highway 18 Brock Rd, St James LA Feb 27th 2021
- Néj Nwa – Hotel Peter & Paul – January 28th 2020
- Néj Nwa – New Orleans Museum of Art – January 26 2020
- Néj Nwa presented by Ashe Center for Cultural Arts, Foundation for Louisiana & New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, & Poets and Writers Inc – January 21 2020
- Strangé Creolité – Hotel Peter & Paul – May 27 2019
- FORESTival presented by A Studio in the Woods – alongside Givers & The Original Pinettes Brass Band – November 10 2018
- Les Cenelles at The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum – June 5th 2018
- Les Cenelles “L’Union Creole” – Neighborhood Story Project –
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