Our Sacred Stories provides private walking tours for groups of all kinds, and nobody can hold the attention of a group like Denise. She also has special expertise in giving historical and cultural tours of New Orleans to students ranging from second grade to graduate school. If you want to have a private group tour of authentic New Orleans' history and culture for your family gathering, girls' trip, class reunion, or educational group, we've got you covered.
Interested in a private tour? Please get in touch with me to schedule your desired tour.
504-452-9237 (text/phone call)
Tour Options Include:
A Spiritual Walk-Through Afro-Creole History, Culture and Traditions
$35 per Adult
$20 per Young Adult (Ages 13-17)
Time Frame: 2 Hrs
The Sinful and Sacred Tour
$55 per person
The tour is adults only.
Some language and content are of a highly sexual nature.
Not suitable for adults of a modesty-conscious nature.
Time Frame: 2 Hrs
If you have any specific tour requests or are interested in a tour that is not listed, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Tour Descriptions
A Spiritual Walk-Through Afro-Creole History Culture and Traditions
Offers a look at Afro-Creole culture in New Orleans, from its West African roots through migration, slavery, the free people of color, and the blending of Indigenous, French, and Spanish influences, showcasing how this blend forged a unique culture.
Spiritual traditions, including Voodoo/hoodoo, rituals, and religious/spiritual heritage. As well as rites & rituals that survived slavery and are often hidden from mainstream historical accounts.
Social traditions: community gatherings, “second line” dancing, masking traditions (such as Mardi Gras Indians, Baby Dolls), music, food, and other cultural expressions that carry Creole and African heritage
Everyday life and resilience: stories of families, craftsmen, musicians, scholars. Individuals include famous names, and ordinary people whose lives built the neighborhoods and culture. Their stories have been passed down through generations. Reviewers who have taken the tour often describe it as “the real story”.
Tours are immersive! Guests walk through the historic Treme neighborhood, listen to oral history, learn about hidden or lesser-known traditions, and are sometimes invited to engage spiritually (e.g., ancestor offerings, African spiritual rites, second-line dancing, etc.).
A Sinful and Sacred Tour
New Orleans was born In Vice. From the moment the French carved the city out of the cypress swamps, the port drew sailors, smugglers, wanderers, and the restless souls who preferred a place where rules bent like river reeds. By the early 1800s, the Crescent City was a world of contradictions: Catholic bells rang over streets thick with gambling dens, elegant Creole homes stood a few feet from muddy alleys where stolen goods traded hands, and the mighty Mississippi carried both commerce and crime right to the city’s doorstep.
Prostitution flowed through New Orleans long before anyone dared to organize it.
By mid-century, brothels were so numerous that some streets became unofficial red-light corridors. The most luxurious “sporting houses” were run by madams who built small empires based on beauty, music, and secrecy. Some women became wealthy, hosting masked balls or renting rooms to politicians and businessmen for “private conversations.”
Prostitution wasn’t simply a vice; it became a pillar of the local economy, as iconic to the city as gumbo and brass bands.
As a 7th-generation Creole with family ties in Storyville, I refuse to be ashamed of the women who survived poverty by any means necessary.
Join me for an inside look at the underworld of New Orleans with personal stories of what it was really like.
