Welcome to New Orleans Musical Legends Park

Our Mission:
To develop and maintain the New Orleans Musical Legends Park that proudly displays the rich cultural and musical heritage of New Orleans, educates and stimulates pride in the citizens of the Greater New Orleans area and the State of Louisiana, provides an educational venue for students in three New Orleans public schools, energizes economic development and tourism at a major entrance into the French Quarter, and revives the first four blocks of the Canal/Bourbon corridor.
The Park serves as a vehicle to energize economic development and encourage thriving businesses in the first four blocks of the Canal/Bourbon corridor, a major entrance to the French Quarter. It also creates another Historical Tourist Destination that enhances the the city's Tourism Industry and creates a much needed green space in the heart of the French Quarter. This park also provides a venue for providing additional music education and performance opportunity for our school children"
New Orleans Musical Legends donates money from their "Pete's Wishing Well Fountain" located in the park to McDonogh Elementary School to provide band equipment.

The Foundation's Accomplishments:
2001
The New Orleans Musical Legends Foundation was established.
Conducted a successful Al Hirt Week and raised $20,000 for the Park.
Inducted Al Hirt and erected a stature of him in the Park.
Generated community awareness involvement, and support for the resurrection of the Park (formerly Edison Place).
Provided a clean and safe space for the community and tourists to enjoy in the French

Quarter with financial support from the City of New Orleans, the New Orleans Tourism

Marketing Corporation, donations from citizens and special fundraising events.
2002 Pete Fountain inducted
Successful ongoing fundraising events for Park maintenance, security and public restrooms.
2003 Fats Domino inducted.
Pete Fountain's statue erected.
2004 New inductees invited: Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, and Chris Owens
"Fats" Domino statue erected.
2005 Cafe Beignet opened for business.
Educational kiosk being developed.
2006 Chris Owens statue erected.
2008 Ronnie Kole Inducted
2010 Louis Prima Iducted
2011 Irma Thomas Inducted
2013 Allen Toussaint Inducted