Birthplace of Danny Barker

Barker came from a musical house. He was the grandson of the bandleader Isidore Barbarin and the nephew of the drummers Paul and Louis Barbarin. He recorded with Cab Calloway from 1939 to 1946 and toured with his wife, the singer Blue Lu Barker. After he returned to New Orleans in 1965, he became assistant to the curator of the New Orleans Jazz Museum. In 1970 the Reverend Andrew Darby Jr. asked him to form a youth band for Fairview Baptist Church; its alumni include Wynton and Branford Marsalis. He died on March 13, 1994.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Cabildo — 0.2 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.4 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• Congo Square — 0.4 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.4 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.

More markers nearby

• Old Ursuline Convent — steps away
• Gallier House — steps away
• French Market — steps away
• First Protestant Church in New Orleans — steps away