Sponsorship Opportunities

Delfeayo Marsalis is a music ambassador for the City of New Orleans, and he founded three nonprofit organizations, all of which are designed to strengthen our artistic community.

In 2008, Mr. Marsalis formed the Uptown Jazz Orchestra (UJO) to spread the brilliance and joy of New Orleans music and culture.  The mission of the Uptown Jazz Orchestra is to promote a greater appreciation for jazz and its New Orleans’ rooted traditions through world-class performance, artistic excellence, education, and community.  Featuring up to 18 accomplished musicians, the Uptown Jazz Orchestra sets the global standard for celebrating jazz in its authentic musical form, inspiring the next generation of jazz musicians, and promoting a culture of diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in the arts.

To help create opportunities for New Orleans musicians, artists, and businesses and to celebrate the culture of New Orleans, Mr. Marsalis created the Jazz at Congo Square Festival in August 2021.  In August 2022, this successful venture featured Mr. Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz

Orchestra, Doreen Ketchens, the Brass-A-Holics, Tonya Boyd-Cannon, Corey Henry, the Congo Square Drummers, African dancers (adult and children), Uptown Music Theatre students, poets, and art, food, and merchandise vendors all in historic Congo Square in New Orleans.  The festival attracted people from the Greater New Orleans area, Southeastern Louisiana, and Southern Mississippi, and it also brought tourists from other states and countries to Congo Square.

We would like to continue the success of this festival by producing the 3^rd Annual Jazz at Congo Square (JACS) Festival on September 10, 2023.  This free festival will feature prominent and upcoming New Orleans artists, and it has rapidly become an important cultural event.  To produce this festival, UJO is seeking sponsors who will receive the following: