The lyrics of John Bouttes “Treme Song” will have you wanting to visit the neighborhood but the beat behind it will have you dancing in the streets! Made famous by the HBO show “Treme,” the song is light and jovial, while the neighborhood itself is sometimes anything but.

The Treme neighborhood is the oldest African American neighborhood in the country and while it has been gentrified severely since Hurricane Katrina, it is still an institution for music that is proprietary to New Orleans.