Although AVMs can develop in many different sites, those located in the brain or spinal cord -- the two parts of the central nervous system -- can have especially widespread effects on the body. AVMs of the brain or spinal cord (neurological AVMs) are believed to affect approximately 300,000 Americans.
2009's Line-up and Festival Details. 2016 CONGO SQUARE NEW WORLD RHYTHMS FESTIVAL. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation celebrates the music and culture of the African diaspora at the eighth annual Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival, March 19-20, in Armstrong Park.
The residents of the Vieux Carre and Faubourg Treme, however, always referred to the area as Congo Square, and that name was formalized by the New Orleans City Council in 2011. The original New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was held in Congo Square in 1970.