Tuba Fats Square

Anthony 'Tuba Fats' Lacen played the sousaphone at the entrance to the French Quarter every Sunday for decades — a one-man brass band who became the most recognized street musician in a city full of them. When he died in 2004, the intersection at Basin and St. Peter streets was renamed in his honor. Tuba Fats Square is at the Tremé edge of Louis Armstrong Park, and on Sunday afternoons it still draws brass bands and second line dancers continuing the tradition Lacen made iconic. The square is unmarked except by a street sign — which is exactly how Tuba Fats would have wanted it.