CONCERTS
October 22
GREAT TREES
KIPP Central City
2514 Third St.
New Orleans, LA 70113
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
Great Trees invites our singers to celebrate the power of the natural world. The program pairs student-influenced repertoire from our summer series with newly-curated works: Laura Mvula's "Green Garden," Peter & Mary Alice Amidon’s titular "Great Trees," and both "Outside My Window" and “A Seed’s a Star” from Stevie Wonder’s mystical album The Secret Life of Plants.
The concert grows out of our summer program, where students discovered through their own experiments that soil, leaf litter, and plant life let rainwater soak into the ground and ease the risk of flooding, while concrete, turf, and other engineered surfaces send more water into our streets. In Great Trees singers and audiences imagine New Orleans’ natural beauty and consider how a greener landscape can help us live with water today.
Ensemble(s): NVNO at KIPP Central City (1st - 4th Grade Choir & 5th - 8th Grade Choir)
October 23
GREAT TREES
KIPP Leadership Primary
2300 St. Claude Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70117
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
Great Trees invites our singers to celebrate the power of the natural world. The program pairs student-influenced repertoire from our summer series with newly-curated works: Laura Mvula's "Green Garden," Peter & Mary Alice Amidon’s titular "Great Trees," and both "Outside My Window" and “A Seed’s a Star” from Stevie Wonder’s mystical album The Secret Life of Plants.
The concert grows out of our summer program, where students discovered through their own experiments that soil, leaf litter, and plant life let rainwater soak into the ground and ease the risk of flooding, while concrete, turf, and other engineered surfaces send more water into our streets. In Great Trees singers and audiences imagine New Orleans’ natural beauty and consider how a greener landscape can help us live with water today.
Ensemble(s): NVNO at KIPP Leadership Primary
October 26
GREAT TREES
Bricolage Academy
2426 Esplanade Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70119
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
Great Trees invites our singers to celebrate the power of the natural world. The program pairs student-influenced repertoire from our summer series with newly-curated works: Laura Mvula's "Green Garden," Peter & Mary Alice Amidon’s titular "Great Trees," and both "Outside My Window" and “A Seed’s a Star” from Stevie Wonder’s mystical album The Secret Life of Plants.
The concert grows out of our summer program, where students discovered through their own experiments that soil, leaf litter, and plant life let rainwater soak into the ground and ease the risk of flooding, while concrete, turf, and other engineered surfaces send more water into our streets. In Great Trees singers and audiences imagine New Orleans’ natural beauty and consider how a greener landscape can help us live with water today.
Ensemble(s): NVNO at Bricolage Academy
October 28
GREAT TREES
Hynes LSU New Orleans
1901 Leon C. Simon Dr.
New Orleans, LA 70122
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
Great Trees invites our singers to celebrate the power of the natural world. The program pairs student-influenced repertoire from our summer series with newly-curated works: Laura Mvula's "Green Garden," Peter & Mary Alice Amidon’s titular "Great Trees," and both "Outside My Window" and “A Seed’s a Star” from Stevie Wonder’s mystical album The Secret Life of Plants.
The concert grows out of our summer program, where students discovered through their own experiments that soil, leaf litter, and plant life let rainwater soak into the ground and ease the risk of flooding, while concrete, turf, and other engineered surfaces send more water into our streets. In Great Trees singers and audiences imagine New Orleans’ natural beauty and consider how a greener landscape can help us live with water today.
Ensemble(s): NVNO at Hynes LSU (2nd - 4th Grade Choir & 5th - 7th Grade Choir)
March 12
EYES ON TOMORROW
KIPP Leadership Primary
2300 St. Claude Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70117
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
In spring 2027, Eyes on Tomorrow brings the students' visual work to the concert stage. Singers perform hopeful repertoire including Quincy Jones and Tevin Campbell's "Tomorrow," Miriam Makeba's "Eyes on Tomorrow," Ben E. Hunter’s "Crossroads," and the Trombone Shorty/Lenny Kravitz collaboration "Something Beautiful," woven together with student-directed scripts that share their art, their ideas, and their visions for New Orleans' future.
The concert stays true to our inquiry-based approach. Rather than asking students to promote a particular answer or evaluate a specific solution, we leave room for them to see both the beauty and the environmental challenges of city life. The science they've learned over the past year becomes a springboard for their imaginations. That arc, from inquiry to imagination, is the artistic spine of Eyes on Tomorrow.
Ensemble(s): NVNO at KIPP Leadership Primary
March 15
EYES ON TOMORROW
Bricolage Academy
2426 Esplanade Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70119
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
In spring 2027, Eyes on Tomorrow brings the students' visual work to the concert stage. Singers perform hopeful repertoire including Quincy Jones and Tevin Campbell's "Tomorrow," Miriam Makeba's "Eyes on Tomorrow," Ben E. Hunter’s "Crossroads," and the Trombone Shorty/Lenny Kravitz collaboration "Something Beautiful," woven together with student-directed scripts that share their art, their ideas, and their visions for New Orleans' future.
The concert stays true to our inquiry-based approach. Rather than asking students to promote a particular answer or evaluate a specific solution, we leave room for them to see both the beauty and the environmental challenges of city life. The science they've learned over the past year becomes a springboard for their imaginations. That arc, from inquiry to imagination, is the artistic spine of Eyes on Tomorrow.
Ensemble(s): NVNO at Bricolage Academy
March 17
EYES ON TOMORROW
Hynes LSU New Orleans
1901 Leon C. Simon Dr.
New Orleans, LA 70122
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
In spring 2027, Eyes on Tomorrow brings the students' visual work to the concert stage. Singers perform hopeful repertoire including Quincy Jones and Tevin Campbell's "Tomorrow," Miriam Makeba's "Eyes on Tomorrow," Ben E. Hunter’s "Crossroads," and the Trombone Shorty/Lenny Kravitz collaboration "Something Beautiful," woven together with student-directed scripts that share their art, their ideas, and their visions for New Orleans' future.
The concert stays true to our inquiry-based approach. Rather than asking students to promote a particular answer or evaluate a specific solution, we leave room for them to see both the beauty and the environmental challenges of city life. The science they've learned over the past year becomes a springboard for their imaginations. That arc, from inquiry to imagination, is the artistic spine of Eyes on Tomorrow.
Ensemble(s): NVNO at Hynes LSU (2nd - 4th Grade Choir & 5th - 7th Grade Choir)
March 19
EYES ON TOMORROW
KIPP Central City
2514 Third St.
New Orleans, LA 70113
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
In spring 2027, Eyes on Tomorrow brings the students' visual work to the concert stage. Singers perform hopeful repertoire including Quincy Jones and Tevin Campbell's "Tomorrow," Miriam Makeba's "Eyes on Tomorrow," Ben E. Hunter’s "Crossroads," and the Trombone Shorty/Lenny Kravitz collaboration "Something Beautiful," woven together with student-directed scripts that share their art, their ideas, and their visions for New Orleans' future.
The concert stays true to our inquiry-based approach. Rather than asking students to promote a particular answer or evaluate a specific solution, we leave room for them to see both the beauty and the environmental challenges of city life. The science they've learned over the past year becomes a springboard for their imaginations. That arc, from inquiry to imagination, is the artistic spine of Eyes on Tomorrow.
Ensemble(s): NVNO at KIPP Central City (1st - 4th Grade Choir & 5th - 8th Grade Choir)
May 4
SEASON FINALE: BEAUTIFUL CITY
New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market
1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70113
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM
For the third year in a row, we are proud to present our Season Finale Concert at the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market right in the heart of our founding neighborhood: Central City! The evening, part of the region-wide fundraiser GiveNOLA Day, features singers from all of our eight programs and a special musical guest. The singers will be joined this year by none other than Dawn Richard!
After the show, patrons are invited to mix and mingle in the venue’s Lobby Bar. Don’t miss this chance to see hundreds of our singers all on one of the city’s most wonderful stages!
Ensemble(s): NVNO at KIPP Central City (1st - 4th Grade Choir & 5th - 8th Grade Choir); NVNO at Hynes LSU (2nd - 4th Grade Choir & 5th - 7th Grade Choir); NVNO at Bricolage Academy; NVNO at KIPP Leadership Primary; NVNO at KIPP Believe; and the Festival Chorus.