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Are you looking for an awesome way to spend an evening while in the Crescent City? Well, look no further than Bourbon Street. One of the most well known, nightlife locations all over the world, Bourbon Street is the place to go for everything ranging from live music and bars to bachelor parties and live adult entertainment.

When the city of New Orleans is brought up, most everyone instantly thinks about Bourbon Street as one of the places you simply must see. It is one of the most fun-filled and popular areas of the entire city. Most importantly, this street practically never slows down. Bars and clubs are open all day and long into the evening and early morning. Here are the 5 things you want to do on Bourbon Street.

Bachelor Party

Hiroshima created its distinct style thirty years ago by mixing the traditional Japanese instruments with American jazz and Latin percussion instruments. Basking today in a record three million album sales, the ensemble stands alone. Last week they returned to Washington, DC, the city where their fusion first reverberated beyond the West Coast, and celebrated at the Birchmere with music from their latest album, “Legacy,” a collection of eleven hits from their first decade that set a nostalgic atmosphere.

The album begins with the elusive strains of the bamboo shakuhachi in the Grammy-nominated “Winds of Change” composed by Dan Kuramoto, the ensemble’s composer, arranger and multiple instrumentalist. The closing number, “Thousand Cranes,” is a paean to nature through June Kuramoto’s koto, the instrument that breathed life into the concept.