City Park has 1,300 acres to get lost in, and most visitors don’t find the Singing Oak on purpose. It sits on the south side of the park east of Big Lake, a short walk from the New Orleans Museum of Art, looking like any other massive live oak from a distance.
Get close enough, and you start to hear it before you can quite make sense of what you’re hearing.
Local artist Jim Hart hung the tree with seven aluminum alloy wind chimes, all painted black to disappear into the shadows of the branches…