Musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans

Osceola Blanchet was a pianist, school teacher, and a member of the Osceola Five, a singing group formed in New Orleans in 1925. The original male quintet included Blanchet, Andrew J. Young, Laddie Melton, and Lord Beaconsfield Landry, and performed classical and spiritual music. The collection includes concert programs for the Osceola Five and other local concerts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, rosters of subsequent members of the quintet, and sheet music.