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The long-awaited list of performers for the postponed 2021 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will be unveiled on Thursday, the fest's producers announced.
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival returns to the Fair Grounds for eight days of music, food, arts and local culture. Gambit previews what to hear, eat and do out at Jazz Fest 2025.
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, takes place from April 24 to May 4 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...
Because Jazz Fest celebrates the "indigenous music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana," every musical style associated with the city and state such as the "blues, R&B, gospel, Cajun, zydeco ...
This year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival begins its two-weekend run on Friday, filling the air with the sounds of R&B, rock 'n roll, Zydeco, pop, blues, country, rap, gospel — and of ...
Jazz Fest signage: Photo Credit, Ricky Richardson *New Orleans, LA – Each year, part of a Springtime ritual, hundreds of thousands of music aficionados and foodies gather at the Fairgrounds to ...
Many cities have rich jazz histories, but none goes back as far as New Orleans. We asked Wendell Pierce, Courtney Bryan and others what song they would play to get a friend to join the party.
Jazz eventually became a music of connoisseurs, but in New Orleans it remains a popular art form. Brass bands play jazz at funerals and behind floats at Mardi Gras parades.
K eep your eye on us!” declares New Orleans music entrepreneur Nate Cameron Jr. “We’re in a very unique renaissance now.” Cameron, a co-founder of the New Orleans creative collective glbl ...
The Jazz Foundation of America raised over $2 million for its COVID-19 relief fund, while the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation supported more than 2,500 in the Louisiana jazz community ...
NEW ORLEANS — For the first time in 100 years, students and faculty alike can legally listen and dance to Jazz music in New Orleans public schools.On Thursday, March 24, the Orleans Parish ...