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JAZZ FEST CUBES ARE OUT!

Thursday, April 24, 2025 Festival Stage

11:15 am

Dave Jordan & the NIA 12:00 pm

Shell Gentilly Stage

11:20 am

Flow Tribe

12:45 pm

Bonerama

Ray Boudreaux 3:40 pm

WWOZ Jazz Tent

11:15 am

Loyola University New Orleans Jazz Ensemble 12:00 pm

5:00 pm

2:10 pm

The Iceman Special 3:10 pm

3:35 pm

Hot 8 Brass Band

7:00 pm

11:20 am

12:10 pm

12:20 pm

12:20 pm

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Roderick Harper

1:10 pm

1:10 pm

1:30 pm

1:30 pm

Flagboy Giz & The Wild Tchoupitoulas 2:15 pm

Jeremy Davenport 2:30 pm

2:40 pm

Grupo Fantasma 3:35 pm

12:30 pm

Charlie Halloran 1:25 pm

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Bourbon St. attack response criticized

Jazz & Heritage Stage

Gospel Tent

11:20 am

Audrey Ferguson & The Voices of Distinction

The Mid-City Aces 12:05 pm

12:25 pm

Ryan Foret & Foret Tradition 1:20 pm

Mardi Gras Indians 12:00 pm

12:20 pm

Son del Coamil

11:30 am

11:55 am

Kid Charleroi

1:45 pm

1:40 pm

1:35 pm

Leroy Jones & New Orleans Finest

Waylon Thibodeaux

Forgotten Souls

2:40 pm

2:40 pm

2:35 pm

2:30 pm

3:00 pm

3:55 pm

3:05 pm

The Pfister Sisters' Tribute to The Boswell Sisters

2:55 pm

Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole 3:55 pm

The Bester Singers and The Dynamic Smooth Family of Slidell 12:50 pm

1:00 pm

1:15 pm

1:45 pm

Little Freddie King Blues Band

Expedia Cultural Exchange Pavilion Stage

Melvin "Maestro" Winfield Jr. & The Glory Chorale Community Choir

12:15 pm

12:35 pm

Los Tremolo Kings feat. Margie Perez

1:45 pm

1:55 pm

Angels of Light Gospel Singers

Mixanteña de Santa Cecilia

1:40 pm

1:45 pm

2:30 pm

2:35 pm

2:45 pm

2:55 pm

Papo y Son Mandao

Lyle Henderson & Emmanu-EL 3:30 pm

2:55 pm

Papa Mali's Shantytown Underground 3:45 pm

3:50 pm

4:10 pm

Lisa Knowles-Smith & The Brown Singers

of Mexico

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

5:15 pm

4:20 pm

Dee Dee Bridgewater with Bill Charlap

Robert Jon & The Wreck 5:15 pm

5:30 pm

Goose

5:55 pm

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

7:00 pm

7:00 pm

Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra 7:00 pm

4:20 pm

4:30 pm

Gerald French & The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band 5:30 pm

5:45 pm

5:20 pm

5:45 pm

5:50 pm

Shemekia Copeland

Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys

Stephen Foster & the New Orleans Jazz Ramblers

Sam Bush

Sons of Jazz Brass Band

4:50 pm

12:00 pm

John Mooney Trio 12:45 pm

1:10 pm

Caesar Brothers FunkBox

5:05 pm

Joanna Hale-McGill

5:20 pm

5:50 pm

Anna Moss

2:55 pm

1:45 pm

Ann Savoy & Another

4:20 pm

4:55 pm

Interviewer:

Keith Spera

2:35 pm

2:45 pm

Heart

3:00 pm

Lady Chops

3:00 pm

New Orleans Saxophone Master

Breeze Cayolle Interviewer:

3:35 pm

3:45 pm

Bryan Wagner

4:15 pm

Sabine McCalla

ISL Circus Arts Kids

Steve Hochman

3:45 pm

Mitch Woods Solo

4:00 pm

4:20 pm

Parade:4:30 - 4:45 pm

Grupo Fantasma

2:00 pm

Karl Denson

Native American Lore

3:10 pm

Mixanteña de Santa Cecilia

Interviewer:

Derek Huston

presents

2:20 pm

3:15 pm

Son del Coamil

1:00 pm

Swamp Pop in the “Promised Land”

Johnnie Allan

1:30 pm

1:50 pm

Gray Hawk

4:45 pm

EL Dusty & The Homies

Interviewer: 4:45 pm

5:00 pm

5:30 pm

6:00 pm

6:00 pm

Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church Mass Choir

12:40 pm

Tchefunky Playground

The Tangiers Combo

2:10 pm

EL Dusty & The Homies

4:05 pm

Gregg Martinez & the Delta Kings with guest Johnnie Allan 5:00 pm

5:10 pm

5:35 pm

6:35 pm

6:40 pm

7:00 pm

Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage

11:30 am Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School Jazz Orchestra and Performing Arts Ensemble 12:15 pm

1:55 pm

of Mexico

3:50 pm

4:10 pm

12:15 pm

12:40 pm

1:20 pm

Sabine McCalla

Prophetess Flora and The

11:30 am

Mariachi en Nueva Orleans Los Viajeros

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Ochsner Children's Tent

Rhythmpourium Tent

11:15 am

Black Foot Hunters

2:50 pm

Stanton Moore featuring David Torkanowsky and James Singleton

Lagniappe Stage

presented by

Morris Bart

Celebrates Mexico

11:15 am

John Mooney & Bluesiana

6:15 pm

6:45 pm

PARADES:12:15 pm - Andrews Brass Band with Ice 1:20 pm - Big Chief Dow & the TimbuktuDivas, and Nkrumah Better Boys Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs Warriors Black Masking Indians and 2:00 pm - Black Mohawk and Young Seminole Hunters Mardi Gras Indians Cheyenne Mardi Gras Indians 2:50 pm - One Mind Brass Band with 3:45 pm - Mexican Parade featuring Lady Pigeon Town Steppers and Bad Boyz Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs Mixanteña de Santa Cecilia

N O L A.C O M

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

12:05 pm

12:25 pm

Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88's

4:05 pm

5:45 pm

John Fogerty

Economy Hall Tent

Kid Simmons’ Local International Allstars

4:15 pm

5:10 pm

5:30 pm

12:05 pm

1:25 pm 1:45 pm

3:50 pm 4:00 pm

Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen

Blues Tent

11:15 am

Andy J. Forest & The Swampcrawlers

12:20 pm

12:20 pm

1:10 pm

1:30 pm

Rockin' Dopsie Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters

2:45 pm

11:15 am

Denisia 12:00 pm

Kinfolk Brass Band

2:25 pm

Congo Square Stage

7:00 pm

Flag denotes special programming

FOLKLIFE STAGE in LOUISIANA FOLKLIFE VILLAGE: 12:05, 1:20, and 3:55 pm - Pow Wow presentations with

to celebrate Mexico Artists Subject to Change

Native Nations Intertribal

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Council bans city-funded alcohol on trips Move part of political backlash to mayor’s travel spending

BY JAMES FINN Staff writer

The New Orleans City Council has banned city officials from buying alcohol on the city’s dime, part of a broader effort to restrict Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s travel spending amid a bitter conflict between the executive and legislative branches of city government. The ordinance prohibits employees from buying or collecting reimbursements for alcohol purchased on trips. City codes and policies had not previously said Cantrell whether alcohol can be expensed or not, but Louisiana law bars such reimbursements for state workers. The council deliberated for less than a minute Thursday before approving the ordinance carried by council Vice President Helena Moreno on a 6-0

ä See COUNCIL, page 4A

STAFF FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

Public safety consultants said a ‘sparse’ and ‘overstretched’ New Orleans Police Department is limited in its ability to gather the sort of intelligence that would prevent future attacks in the aftermath of a deadly New year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street.

Emails from outside consultants cite poor communication, intelligence gaps

BY JOSEPH CRANNEY, JEFF ADELSON and BEN MYERS Staff writers

Public safety consultants working behind closed doors to examine the city of New Orleans’ emergency tactics flagged communication breakdowns that persisted weeks after the deadly New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street, newly released emails show. Those consultants also identified a “sparse” and “overstretched” New Orleans Police Department limited in its ability to gather the sort of intelligence that would prevent future

attacks. They further recommended that the city empower its officers to search video surveillance more easily. In late January, Bill Bratton, a former New York City Police Department commissioner hired to assess the city’s weaknesses, had identified a lack of coordination among the top brass of the Bratton NOPD, the city’s homeland security department and Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s office as the city worked to prepare for Super Bowl LIX and Mardi Gras. “At the moment it feels as if each

N.O. judge faces possible suspension BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

entity is doing its ‘own thing,’ ” Bratton wrote in a Jan. 23 email to NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick responded with her own frustration that she was left out of another city agency’s plans to add security barriers to other pedestrian hot spots in New Orleans, including Frenchmen Street and Jackson Square. Ultimately, New Orleans did successfully coordinate security for the

A New Orleans judge is facing a potentially lengthy suspension over a pair of attack ads and other alleged misdeeds during her campaign nearly five years ago. Orleans Parish Civil District Judge Jennifer Medley is set to go before the Louisiana Judiciary Commission on Friday to answer to four counts of ethical miscon- Medley duct, all from a gritty run for office in 2020 that was backed by trash magnate Sidney Torres IV. The Office of Special Counsel, which prosecutes

ä See RESPONSE, page 8A

ä See JUDGE, page 4A

Book Festival guest Goldberg discusses Signal chat controversy BY RICH COLLINS

Staff writer

Tulane University grabbed a small spot in the national conversation over the Trump administration’s Signal chat leak on Thursday as journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, discussed his blockbuster article and its implications for U.S. security at the New Orleans Book Festival. Goldberg, who on Monday pub-

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ä Senators from both parties call for probe into Signal leak. PAGE 6A

lished his account of how he was inadvertently added to a group chat that top U.S. officials were using to discuss military strikes against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen, said the administration’s reaction to his article led him to release nearly the full transcript two days later.

“This was a serious breach of national security,” Goldberg said. “They had an opportunity to accept that they made a mistake, tell us how they’re going to fix the mistake and move on. Instead, they attacked the messenger, which is part of the playbook.” Goldberg said if Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and others hadn’t reacted the way they did, he wouldn’t have published the rest of

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, speaks at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane on Thursday. STAFF PHOTO By BRETT DUKE

ä See GOLDBERG, page 6A

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