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JA ZZ FEST 2024 Introduction ...................17 Saturday, April 27, picks ...19 Sunday, April 28, picks..... 23 Thursday, May 2, picks..... 27 Friday, May 3, picks ......... 29 Map...............................31 Do’s, Don’ts and other information ........... 33 Daily schedule cubes ....... 34 Saturday, May 4, picks ..... 45 Sunday, May 5, picks.........51

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Squatters’ writes Caitlin Cook brings her off-Broadway bathroom graffiti show to New Orleans

Shorty Fest

Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrew’s annual Shorty Fest on Monday, April 29, includes music inside Tipitina’s and a block party around the Uptown venue. The outdoor party will feature brass bands, high school marching bands, Black Masking Indians, food trucks and a kids’ area. In the evening, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Galactic featuring Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph, Sun ra Arkestra and students from the Trombone Shorty Academy will perform indoors. Outdoor events start at 5 p.m. and the indoor show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $125 general admission and $300 VIp via tipitinas.com.

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IN HER MASSIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION OF BATHROOM GRAFFITI, Caitlin

Cook has all sorts of gems, from the philosophical to the crass. In her bathroom graffiti songs and on her Instagram page, she shares memorable ones.

“Bisexual women should be called more-or-less-bians” “The Earth without art is just ‘eh.’”

“God is love. But Satan does that thing you like with his tongue.” “plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers!” Which prompted the graffitied response, “Fuck off. people should bring you flowers.”

“If you call someone a $2 whore it’s meaner than before because of inflation.”

She found one piece particularly inspiring.

“I saw this piece of graffiti that said, ‘Since writing on toilet walls is done neither for critical acclaim nor financial reward, it is the purest form of art.

Discuss,’” Cook says.

That became the first song in her one-woman show, “The Writing on the Stall.” After two sold-out runs off-Broadway in New york, she’s starting a tour in New Orleans. It runs one-night only Wednesday, May 1, at AllWays lounge & Cabaret.

When Cook got serious about graffiti, she spent a lot of time scouring the best places to find it: bathrooms in New york dive bars, music venues, public parks and other heavily trafficked facilities.

Though she had a master’s degree in art history and underwater archeology from Oxford University in Britain, she was more interested in comedy and writing humorous songs. She had overcome stage-fright with the help of her ex-boyfriend, comedian and New Orleans native Sean patton. He dared her to get onstage, knowing she had a habit of facing fears head on. Her first experience was a disaster, she says, but she kept going back and later released a couple albums of humorous songs.

The first song about graffiti as a pure form of art became part of a show of funny songs.

“That song has some of my favorite pieces of graffiti, and it’s my first attempt to turn it into lyrics,” she says.

“That song did so well in front of live audiences. people wanted to talk to me after the show and show me pictures.

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Something just popped. I finished a run at the Edinburgh Fringe and the graffiti song was clicking with people.”

She decided to write a whole show’s worth of graffiti music. So she started taking more pictures and sorting through thousands of missives.

“I started sorting pictures into categories, like these people sound like they’re high,” she says. “This is graffiti in which people are sort of responding to one another, which became the song ‘Conversations with Strangers.’ I had poetic things people had written.

I have men’s stalls and women’s stalls and unisex stalls. I created a song called “The Difference” which is comparing all three.”

The songs were popular, and some have gone viral, rolling up a total of more than 50 million streams and views. That started a wave of contributions from fans. “people send me stuff from military porta potties and construction site porta potties,” she says. “I don’t particularly love going into them, so I am glad people send me pictures. I have pictures from New Zealand and Southeast Asia and Alaska.”

Whatever didn’t resonate with the professoriate at Oxford did tap into more common interest.

“It’s the oldest form of art,” she says.

“We’ve been drawing on cave walls next to the shithole since we were neanderthals. It’s crazy. It’s part of human history that we like to put our stamp on things. It’s super vulnerable, and we feel like we can share things in this super private place where we do it.”

It just sounds less sophisticated when it’s the Sharpie-scrawled words, “Thank god for sluts.”

Cook assembled an entire show of graffiti songs, which pleased audiences, she says, but she decided it needed more to tie it all together. It still includes photo projections of the graffiti, including some of the many drawings of genitalia she found in men’s rooms. But it became a more personal show.

“I went back, and thought about what I might write, my own confessions, my own vulnerability,” she says.

“Now it’s a show about why do we feel the most safe sharing the darkest or silliest or most vulnerable parts of ourselves when we’re in the bathroom?

Especially the women’s bathroom, where women go to cry about a boyfriend being shitty, or to escape a bad date or borrow tampons or share lipstick or compliment each others’ outfits. It’s this weird safe space.”

She also enlisted help from her fiance, A.J. Holmes. The Broadway actor starred as Elder Cunningham in “The Book of Mormon.” She directed his oneman show “yeah, But Not right Now.” He in turn directs “The Writing on the Stall.” He’ll handle the technical duties at the performance at AllWays.

“The Writing on the Stall” is at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 1, at AllWays Lounge.

Tickets are $30 via eventbrite.com. For more information about Caitlin Cook, visit thecaitlincook.com.

Troy ‘Trombone Shorty’ Andrews PHOTO BY BRETT DUKE / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE

NOLA Crawfish Fest

The three-day festival hosts indoor and outdoor music stages, boiled crawfish from NOlA Crawfish King, a crawfish eating competition, a cookoff and local arts vendors. Eric Krasno with Ivan Neville, Tony Hall, raymond Weber and guest Anders Osborne headline night one; Tab Benoit tops night two; and Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen with George porter Jr., John Boutte and others close things out with a tribute to Snooks Eaglin. Gates open at 3 p.m.

Monday, April 29, through Wednesday, May 1, at the Broadside. Tickets are $60 per day or $165 for a three-day pass via nolacrawfishfest.com.

Daze Between Fest

The two-day festival at Faubourg Brewery is heavy on funk, soul and jam bands. lettuce with guest guitarist John Scofield headline Tuesday, April 30, and Gov’t Mule with many guest artists close the festival on Wednesday, May 1. Other performers include The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Krasno/Moore project, The rumble, Galactic and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe. Single-day tickets are $70-$85 and two-day tickets are $155 via dazebetweennola.com.

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Xavier University’s competitive cheer team recently became national champions. The squad won the National Cheerleaders Association national title in the advanced large coed National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics division, and earned a shout-out from actor Gabrielle Union, who led an all-Black cheer squad in the movie “Bring It On.”

Louisiana State University allows fossil fuel companies to pay to influence research, journalist Sara Sneath reported. A document used by lSU’s fundraising arm outlines how chemical companies donating to the university can weigh in on faculty research or participate in the review of a study, calling into question the school’s academic freedom. Both Shell and Exxon have donated to the levels that get the companies access, and Shell has a seat on the advisory board that influences research at lSU’s Institute for Energy.

Cade Brumley, the state’s superintendent of education, is telling school districts to ignore new federal protections for lGBTQ students. The U.S. Department of Education April 19 revised Title IX regulations to include protections for students based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In a letter to districts, Brumley said schools should follow state law, which already targets transgender student athletes.

THE AMOUNT, IN DOLLARS, BEING CHARGED BY AT LEAST ONE PERSON FOR PARKING NEAR THE FAIR GROUNDS. The soaring cost of living, which includes increasingly expensive Jazz Fest tickets, apparently have some New Orleanians scrambling for creative ways to make a little extra beer money, including profiting from their own parking spots. May we recommend public transit, biking, ride shares or walking to Jazz Fest?

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products in louisiana remains up in the air, as the House advanced a proposal April 23 to further regulate the industry and the Senate advanced another on the 22nd that would ban it altogether.

The House passed 75-23 House Bill 952 by rep. Dustin Miller, an Opelousas Democrat, that would keep consumable hemp products legal, but tighten regulations on them.

The bill would only allow one serving per container for THC beverages, at the current maximum of 8 milligrams of THC. Currently, some products are being sold in larger containers with 100 milligrams, intended for multiple servings.

The proposal would also have retail locations move THC products,

except for seltzers, behind the counter, similar to how tobacco products are sold. It also sets the age for buying any of these products at 21.

The bill requires manufacturers to test every batch of consumable hemp products. And it gives the state Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control commissioner the power to ban a manufacturer from creating consumable hemp products on their first violation of the law, if that violation is found to be “egregious,” Miller said.

Miller’s bill has the support of many in the consumable hemp industry, who of course prefer it to a total ban on the products.

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so that they can move on and focus on producing their products and running their business.”

Miller’s bill outlaws consumable hemp products made from flower, a decision he said he made because there were “bad actors” adding sprays to it that could get people high. rep. C. Travis Johnson, a Vidalia Democrat, attempted to amend the bill to keep consumable hemp products made from hemp flower legal.

He said it’s legal in neighboring states and that making it illegal would put louisiana businesses at a disadvantage. That amendment failed. rep. laurie Schlegel, a Metairie republican, made an amendment to have the bill ban the products altogether, like another proposal that moved through the Senate.

It failed 40-56.

Miller’s measure found support in a seemingly unlikely ally, rep. Danny McCormick, an Oil City republican, who took the chamber on a rollercoaster of emotions in his comments on the House floor.

McCormick said he doesn’t take recreational drugs and quit drinking

because he was “too good at it,” noting he doesn’t allow alcohol on his property. But he also said the legislature couldn’t legislate morality and change human behavior.

“If I was going to come here and make a law to change human behavior, I would make a law that everybody had to get saved and go to heaven,” he said.

At the end of the day, he said, alcohol is legal, despite the problems of drunk driving, alcoholism and violence committed while people are drinking, so consumable hemp products should be too.

“Are we really going to come in this room and we’re going to pass a law to make this illegal instead of regulating it, and then we’re going to all walk across the street and drink alcohol?” he asked.

On Monday, the Senate easily passed Senate Bill 237 by Sen. Thomas pressly, a Shreveport republican, that would ban consumable hemp products outright.

On the Senate floor, pressly changed his tune from a committee meeting in March, when he said that

although he supports a full ban on the products, he expected to work with stakeholders to change the bill and work out a compromise.

“I think the right spot is somewhere between this bill which completely outlaws it, and where we are currently where it’s free market galore,” he said then.

But on Monday, the full Senate advanced the ban 27-9 without any debate. In what would be his opening and closing statements on the bill, he referenced the laws the legislature passed that created the consumable hemp industry in the state and updated requirements in recent years.

“I believe that’s wrong. I believe you agree with me, and I move favorable passage,” he said, with a smile.

That vote was mostly among party lines, with republicans voting for it and Democrats voting against it.

However, both Sen. royce Duplessis, a New Orleans Democrat, and Sen. Cleo Fields, a Baton rouge Democrat, voted for the proposal, and Sen. Jeanpaul Coussan, a lafayette republican, voted against it. — Kaylee Poche

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THE LOUISIANA HOUSE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE on Monday

advanced without objection two bills aimed at protecting access to IVF in the state, in response to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling in February that essentially halted access to the procedures there.

House Bill 833 by rep. paula Davis, a Baton rouge republican, and House Bill 742 by rep. Denise Marcelle, a Baton rouge Democrat, would keep IVF providers from being sued if something happens to the embryos in their care as long as they’re acting “in good faith” and with “reasonable care and diligence.”

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body, and later implanted into the uterus. It can be a fertility treatment option for people who are struggling to become pregnant.

“I think this a very pro-family bill,” said rep. Chad Brown, a plaquemine Democrat, of Davis’ bill. “I don’t know that there’s anything more pro-family than a family that goes through the pressure and the time, and a lot of times the expenses, of trying to start a family (through IVF).”

Davis’ bill also changes the definition of a “human embryo” to remove the part in current law that says “it will develop into utero and an unborn child.”

Katie Bliss, an infertility lawyer involved in crafting the legislation, said they wanted to “remove the idea that every human embryo will develop in utero into an unborn child.”

“That’s just unfortunately, not the case.” Bliss said. “In the natural case, that’s not the case, and also in the world of IVF, that’s not the case.”

The bill also specifies that an embryo is “viable” when it continues to develop in a healthy manner 36 hours from fertilization and “non-viable when it fails to continue to develop” after that timeframe, unless it’s being preserved. It contains language saying embryos will be presumed to be viable unless determined to be non-viable.

Marcelle said she and Davis worked on their bills independently of one another, and that Davis amended her bill to include language from Marcelle’s. She said they might end

Stefanie Braun prepares eggs at Audubon Fertility in New Orleans.

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up merging the two bills into one.

IVF access in louisiana was made both possible and complicated by a 1986 law. That law bans the “intentional” destruction of embryos created during IVF in the state, since that was at the center of many objections to the process at the time. louisiana is the only state with such a law. As a result, most of the state’s major fertility clinics ship embryos not in use to be stored out-of-state. louisiana law classifies embryos “juridicial persons,” giving them some legal rights like they would a corporation but not the legal rights of a full person, like Alabama’s ruling did.

The Alabama Supreme Court suit was filed by three couples whose additional embryos were destroyed by a patient who entered the clinic’s storage unit, picked them up and dropped them. The couples sued under the state’s “Wrongful Death of a Minor Act,” and the court ruled that embryos created through IVF are considered children and therefore the law applied in this case.

Following the court’s decision, the Alabama legislature passed a law so that providers, transporters or patients don’t get sued for destroying embryos. Two IVF providers started offering their services again but a third said it still didn’t have the legal protection it needs to feel comfortable doing the same.

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GOV. JEFF LANDRY’S NON-STOP ASSAULT ON NEW ORLEANIANS’ RIGHT TO SELF-GOVERNANCE has been met

with an equally disturbing non-response from Mayor laToya Cantrell.

Other local officials have stepped up, thankfully. City Council president Helena Moreno and state reps.

Jason Hughes and Aimee Adatto Freeman have pushed for state funding to feed poor kids, while rep. Mandie landry and Sen. royce Duplessis — all New Orleans Democrats — are fighting for homeowners amid louisiana’s property insurance crisis.

But on these and other matters of grave importance to New Orleans, the mayor has been AWOl. Bills targeting the rights of the lGBTQ community, and particularly trans people, are working their way through the legislature with alarming ease. Notwithstanding New Orleans’ well-earned reputation as a welcoming, bright blue dot in a sea of angry red, Cantrell has not seen fit to take a stand in defense of some of her most vulnerable constituents, many of whom rightfully fear for their safety.

To be clear, while the fix may be in on rights rollbacks, transgender people, especially our youth, at a bare minimum deserve a mayor who stands and fights for them regardless of the odds.

On another front, the consumable hemp product ban recently passed by the state Senate would harm many local businesses, from start-ups that make such products to convenience stores that sell them. Given the millions that have been invested by legitimate consumable hemp companies — and the significant sales tax the city stands to lose — one would think the mayor would have something to say. One would be wrong.

Even measures that would reduce the mayor’s legal authority or sideline her entirely have drawn no pushback from Cantrell.

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Senate Bill 462, by Denham Springs republican Sen. Valarie Hodges, would allow landry to appoint the chair and other officers of almost all state boards and commissions. Currently, a governor can appoint members to numerous boards and commissions, but in most cases those bodies elect their own chairs and other officers — albeit often with a governor’s tacit approval. Hodges’ bill would put virtually all boards and commissions under the governor’s thumb.

Her bill also could seriously hurt New Orleanians by allowing landry and future governors to put cronies and ideologues in charge of more than a dozen boards and commissions that play a major role in shaping the city’s economy and quality of life. Examples include the S&WB, the Morial Convention Center board and many neighborhood security and economic development district boards.

In the face of all these threats, the mayor sadly remains silent.

All this is not to say she hasn’t been doing things. She’s addressed a handful of conventions in recent weeks, continued her internal public relations tour of various agencies — and left town April 24 for a junket in Atlanta.

In other words, she’s fiddling while New Orleans’ future goes up in flames.

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Ryan Seacrest Foundation is bringing Seacrest Studios to Children’s Hospital New Orleans The 1,200 square foot media center will be part of Walker’s Imaginarium, set to open in early 2026.

Being in a hospital setting can be scary for any child and over the last five years Children’s Hospital New Orleans has made significant investments in the patient and family experience. Experts know that children cope, heal and learn through play and imagination and that’s accomplished by creating emotional safe spaces for kids.

The hospital’s next step forward in helping their patients and families cope while navigating their healthcare journeys came earlier this month when Children’s Hospital announced they were selected by the Ryan Seacrest Foundation for the next location of Seacrest Studios, a state-of-the-art studio for pediatric patients to explore the creative realms of radio, television and new media. This new patient experience will be home to the Foundation’s first studio in the Gulf South – and the only one in Louisiana.

Seacrest Studios will be located inside Walker’s Imaginarium, a first-of-its kind child enrichment center planned for the main campus of Children’s Hospital in partnership with nonprofit Kids Join The Fight. The studio will be located prominently on the ground level and main exhibit floor, which will include two floors of interactive, kid-friendly exhibits, creating a therapeutic space for patients and families to thrive and find joy while spending time together in the hospital.

Walker’s Imaginarium will tie directly into the main concourse and inpatient tower at Children’s Hospital, as a natural bookend to the campus. The project will break ground late this year and will open in early 2026.

Seacrest Studios are charitable endeavors of the Ryan Seacrest Foundation, founded by radio and television host and producer Ryan Seacrest, along with his family. The Foundation aims to contribute positively to the healing process for children and their families during their stay, as well as uplift the spirits of the clinical and administrative staff at Children’s Hospital.

“We quickly fell in love with the vision of Children’s Hospital New Orleans and Kids Join The Fight to redefine the patient and family experience through Walker’s

Imaginarium,” said Seacrest. “New Orleans is one of the best culture and music cities in the country, and I cannot think of a better place to bring joy to patients through our foundation.”

Seacrest Studios will be used to provide a variety of programming opportunities to patients, whether they are physically in the studio or watching through a closedcircuit network from their in-room television screen. Patients will have the opportunity to host their own radio and television shows, watch live musical performances, play games and even interview celebrity guests who visit the studio. The studio will be encased in glass, allowing patients and visitors to view the daily programming happening inside from the main floor of Walker’s Imaginarium.

“We are humbled and could not be more excited to be partnering with the Ryan Seacrest Foundation to bring a Seacrest Studio to our campus,” said Lucio A. Fragoso, president and CEO of Children’s Hospital New Orleans. “We believe that part of our job in running a children’s hospital is creating an environment where kids can just be kids, while receiving care.

That is exactly what the Ryan Seacrest Foundation helps do, and we cannot wait to deliver countless moments of joy together.”

The Ryan Seacrest Foundation has opened 14 other Seacrest Studios across the country, including Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Nashville, Orange County, Orlando, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Memphis, Queens and Salt Lake City.

“I’ve heard form colleagues around the country about what a differentiator Seacrest Studios is for overall patient experience, and we are so excited about this opportunity to partner here in New Orleans to create something truly spectacular that celebrates our culture and invites in community,” said Renee Guilbeau, director of Child Life and Creative Therapies at Children’s Hospital.

“We can’t wait to come to you live from inside our studio, and for all of the creative content and ideas our kiddos will come up with.”

For more information about Walker’s Imaginarium and how to support the project, visit chnola.org/imagine.

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State budget process is a roller coaster for state’s most vulnerable AS IS OFTEN THE CASE, THIS YEAR’S LEGISLATIVE SESSION IS A ROLLER COASTER RIDE

for our state’s most vulnerable citizens, especially women and children. The best evidence of that can be found by tracking House Bill 1, which comprises louisiana’s annual operating budget.

Budgets start with the governor, who submits a proposed spending plan that gets wrapped into HB 1. From there, the House Appropriations Committee conducts hearings and begins the process of moving the bill toward passage — typically with some tweaks along the way.

For example, Gov. Jeff landry’s proposed budget included $87.7 million to maintain the current level of day care subsidies for children under 4 years old.

That was good news, but that amount still would have kept about 6,500 kids on waiting lists, according to libbie Sonnier, executive director of the louisiana policy Institute for Children.

The bad news came when Appropriations Committee members made some initial adjustments to landry’s proposed budget on April 23. Among other tweaks, they cut $24 million from the day care subsidies. If that cut is not restored, Sonnier said, it will affect more than 1,900 infants and toddlers currently in day care — in addition to the 6,500 on waiting lists.

Sonnier said it’s disappointing that “the young children of louisiana are first on the chopping block.”

There’s still hope, however.

Appropriations Committee Chair rep. Jack McFarland, r-Winnfield, said the early childhood money could be added back into the budget if the state’s revenue Estimating Conference recognizes extra revenues at its next meeting. By law, lawmakers can only spend money recognized by the conference, which meets several times a year.

Meanwhile, committee members added $6.9 million to the budget of the state Department of Children and

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Family Services’ foster care programs, which also are in dire need of additional funding.

The committee also added $3.5 million for a federal summer food program benefitting children of low-income families. landry had rejected the federal program earlier this year (after former Gov. John Bel Edwards declined to request the funds for this year prior to leaving office), even though the state money would leverage more than $70 million in federal matching funds.

The deadline to notify the feds of a state’s intent to implement the Summer EBT program for this summer was Jan. 1 — but states can request a waiver, a United States Department of Agriculture spokesperson said last week.

On yet another front, landry cut $7 million for additional domestic violence shelters in his proposed budget, but the Appropriations Committee worked it into the supplemental budget bill, HB 782 — proving that there’s more than one way to get critical funding. legislators funded additional shelters in the current budget, but another $7 million will allow advocates to continue meeting the need for more shelters. louisiana has led the nation in domestic violence homicides for decades.

The entire House was scheduled to consider HB 1 at press time. The Senate will get its turn in the coming weeks, presenting more opportunities for restoring — and cutting — funds.

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THE BUILDING AT 625 ST. PHILIP ST. HAS BEEN HOME TO SEVERAL restaurants and bars, but

its history as a former bakery is what lives on thanks to the words etched into the building.

Giuseppe ruffino and his wife Teresa emigrated to the United States from Italy in the 1890s. He later opened a bakery in the 600 block of St. philip, selling bread to the French Quarter’s sizable Italian community at that time.

According to a January 1964 Timespicayune article, the ruffinos had ten children. In the 1930s, Giuseppe ruffino retired and sold his bakery to a son-in-law, who changed the name to United Bakery and later relocated it to St. Bernard Avenue. It remained in business there until Hurricane Katrina, selling muffuletta loaves and Italian breads to customers across the city.

In 1961, ruffino’s youngest son Vincent opened ruffino’s restaurant at the 625 St. philip property. He and his wife Anna offered typical Italian dishes such as lasagna, veal scaloppini,

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chicken cacciatore and pizza, as well as steaks and other dishes. There was also a lounge and parking garage on the property.

In 1976, the restaurant changed hands, was remodeled and reopened under the ownership of Keith Nelson, an “Australian-born, British-reared fellow with a delightful accent,” as the States-Item described him. Newspaper ads touted the new ruffino’s as a place for “haute cuisine and continental atmosphere,” with British, Australian and American dishes. It closed in 1978.

In the decades since, the property has been home to the Hotel royal, Flanagan’s pub, Café 19, the Elvisthemed Heartbreak Café, rigby’s, Sweet Willie’s, Alberto’s and a Mexican restaurant called la Sirena.

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This will be the sixth time the Stones have performed in the city, although it’s taken the past five years to get them to Jazz Fest. With great fanfare, the band was announced as a headliner for the 50th anniversary festival in 2019 — but they were forced to cancel so Mick Jagger could have heart surgery. They did come to town later that year — only to have their Superdome show postponed by 24 hours because of a hurricane.

The Stones first came to New Orleans in July 1978, playing to a crowd of 80,173 at the Superdome. Van Halen and The Doobie Brothers opened, and tickets cost $13.50.

The Stones’ next Superdome concert on Dec. 5, 1981 drew 87,500, breaking the U.S. record at the time for the largest attendance at an indoor concert. The show featured opening acts The Neville Brothers and George Thorogood and the Destroyers.

While visiting New Orleans, the Stones also attended a party aboard the riverboat president catered by chef paul prudhomme and featuring performances by The Meters, Deacon John Moore, Clarence “Frogman” Henry and The Neville Brothers.

The Stones again played a sold-out Superdome show to 55,000 fans in November 1989 and came back five years later in 1994.

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2024 Week 2 Mick Jagger and d the Rolling Stones perform m Thursday at Jazz Fest.

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“YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT,” Mick Jagger

sings in the Rolling Stones classic. That may be true Thursday after tickets sold out for the special day featuring the Stones at the Fair Grounds. It’s a milestone a longtime coming for the festival.

Bringing the biggest rock band in the world to Jazz Fest is no small feat. The Rolling Stones shot to the top of the rock world in the 1960s and never came down, selling more than a quarter of a billion albums and remaining a top touring draw for decades. They don’t come through Louisiana often, and there were a few misstarts in making this date happen, with the band originally scheduled to headline the festival’s 50th anniversary.

The Stones’ appearance on Thursday changes the festival for that sold-out day.

All stages except the main Festival Stage will close their final sets by 4 p.m., so no other bands will play during the Stones’ two-hour time slot. The rules for audience space are slightly different as well, with tarps prohibited and other modifications (See Jazz Fest Dos and Don’ts, page 33).

But as the song also says, “You get what you need,” and there’s plenty of music, food, culture and more at a packed festival May 2-5.

There are also lots more rock stars, with Foo Fighters, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Bonnie Raitt, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Wallflowers and more. The lineup also includes Hozier, Samara Joy, Queen Latifah,

Irma Thomas, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Terence Blanchard, Rhiannon Giddens and many more.

There’s more of everything this year: more music, more food vendors and items, and more art vendors. The festival’s 12 music stages and tents host all sorts of music from Louisiana and beyond, and there also are a kids tent, an interview stage, parades on the grounds and performances in the Folklife Village.

The festival’s Cultural Exchange Pavilion highlights Colombian music and culture, and there are more bands playing everything from traditional cumbia and salsa to contemporary hip-hop and Latin grooves, with some groups participating in parades on the grounds. There also are Colombian artists, crafts and food.

Tickets and VIP packages for the final weekend are available online. For the second weekend, advance single day tickets are $95 plus fees through May 1, and admission at the gate is $105. Children ages 2-10 get in for $5 with an adult. Visit nojazzfest.com for tickets and other information.

The festival went cashless last year.

The box office and food and other vendors accept credit and debit cards, Apple, Google and Samsung pay and prepaid cards. Attendees with cash can purchase prepaid cards on the grounds. Visit the festival website for details.

Gambit has previews for each day of the festival and there are daily recaps and more at bestofneworleans.com and on our social media. Enjoy!

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11:20 A.M.-12:05 P.M. SATURDAY FAIS DO-DO STAGE One of south Louisiana’s freshest young Cajun bands is Amis du Teche, a trio led by violinist Adeline Miller and guitarist Amelia Powell. The band only sings in French, including its originals like “Two-Step Blues,” and it does benefit from family lines. Powell is the daughter of musicians Dirk Powell and Christine Balfa, leader of Balfa Toujours and the youngest daughter of legendary Cajun bandleader and preservationist Dewey Balfa. Miller originally is from New York, though she moved to Breaux Bridge at 5 years old, and soon started to play the fiddle. Her brother Robert Miller plays bass in the band.

SIERRA GREEN AND THE GIANTS

1:30-2:25 P.M. SATURDAY CONGO SQUARE STAGE The Batiste Brothers present a tribute to the late Russell Batiste, who died in September 2023 at age 57. From picking up drumming at age 4, he was a standout from the St. Augustine High School Marching 100 through a career playing with the Funky Meters and his own bands including Orkestra from ’Da Hood. (For more on Batiste, see page 5.)

KOMBILESA MI

2:05-3:05 P.M. CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION “Kombilesa Mi” means “my friends” in Palenquero, a language blending African Bantu, Portuguese, French and English. It’s the language of the tiny Colombian town of San Basilio de Palenque, the first free Black town in the Americas, settled by escaped slaves in the 17th century. The nine-member hip-hop group fuses contemporary rap in Spanish and Palenquero and Colombian rhythms played on mostly traditional hand-made drums. The band is preserving the language and building relationships with other Latin American groups bridging Indigenous sounds and hip-hop. The group got wider exposure online in a Tiny Desk meets globalFEST

concert in 2022. Group members also discuss Palenquero culture at 4:30 p.m. on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage.

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2:45-3:45 P.M. SATURDAY WWOZ JAZZ TENT 4:45-5:30 P.M. SATURDAY RHYTHMPOURIUM Victor Cambell learned to play piano at a young age in his hometown of Cameguey, Cuba. As a teenager, he started to focus on jazz, both after hearing Wynton Marsalis perform in Havana and in a trip to New Orleans. The city inspired him to move here and immerse himself in the scene, where he sometimes performs will fellow Cuban transplants and with other lineups.

BOMBA ESTEREO

2:50-3:45 P.M. SATURDAY CONGO SQUARE STAGE Bogota, Colombia’s Bomba Estereo makes electronic music grounded in cumbia and salsa beats, as well as other Indigenous sounds, resulting in slinky club tracks, songs suitable for Caribbean beach party vibes and more socially conscious songs about the dangers of environmental degradation. At the core are founder Simon Mejia and vocalist Liliana Saumet. Mejia was in a rock band before starting a solo electronic music project two decades ago.

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12:25-1:15 P.M. SATURDAY BLUES TENT Growning up in New Orleans, Sierra Green has embraced the city’s music, from singing in church to leading bands at Frenchmen Street venues, and ranging from local funk to soul, blues and R&B. She’ll release her debut full-length album “Here We Are” in June. Recorded both in New Orleans and Nashville, it leans into classic Motown sounds and R&B and soul backed by the Giants’ horn section.

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Looking to avoid imitating sounds coming from the U.S. or Europe, he dug deeper into the traditional dance music of Colombia. Expanding the project into a full band, he delved into the country’s regional sounds and their mix of Indigenous, African and colonial influences. Bomba Estereo has had hits enjoyed across Latin America on albums including “Amanecer” and 2021’s “Deja,” which features an array of international guests.

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4-5 P.M. SATURDAY GENTILLY STAGE Since Alynda Lee Segarra arrived in New Orleans at the age of 17 and busked in the streets with bands playing folk and roots music, they have gone from Jazz Fest’s smallest to biggest stages. The artist behind Hurray for the Riff Raff, Segarra gained national attention for the 2014 album “Small Town Heroes” and has since moved back and forth between their childhood home in New York and New Orleans, and toured extensively.

More recent albums reflect Segarra reconnecting with their Puerto Rican heritage and their identity as nonbinary. On 2022’s “Life on Earth,” Segarra incorporated synthesizers and songs like “Rhododendron” gave the album an upbeat, alt-pop feel. Hurray for the Riff Raff’s February release “The Past is Still Alive” is largely an autobiographical project, full of beautiful storytelling songs.

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She’ll sing her early classic “You Can Have My Husband, But Please Don’t Mess with My Man” and plenty of songs about love and heartbreak, like “Breakaway” or “Love Don’t Change.” But in her annual Gospel Tent appearances, there’s no messing around. Thomas has sung in church as long as she’s been singing on stage. While she is backed by a band in the Gospel Tent, she does some songs a cappella, and its impressive to hear just her powerful voice filling the tent.

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4:05-5:05 P.M. SATURDAY LAGNIAPPE STAGE Singer-songwriter Dylan LeBlanc was born in Shreveport and spent his young life split between Louisiana and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where his father was a country singer. He released his first album at 20 years old and has gone from rock to country to an Americana blend of sounds. His fall release, “Coyote,” is a concept album telling the stories of a drifter, living on the edge in Texas border country. Its vocals have drawn comparisons to the early work of Neil Young.

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versions of traditional and contemporary brass band songs. The band was originally founded by the late Kevin O’Day, and it’s only played a handful of shows outside its annual gathering at the Jazz & Heritage Stage. Some regular participants have included Galactic’s Ben Ellman and Stanton Moore, the Dirty Dozen’s Roger Lewis, Big Sam Williams and many more.

JACOBO VELEZ Y LA MAMBANEGRA

4:55-6 P.M. SATURDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Singer, saxophonist and producer Jacobo Velez leads the nine-piece La Mambanegra orchestra, comprised of guitars, synthesizers, drums and horns. The group hails from Cali, Colombia, known as the Salsa Capital of the World. The group’s sound is based in salsa but works in funk, R&B, jazz and raggamuffin (a strain of Jamaican dancehall music) influences to create an energetic style they call “Cali breaksalsa.” The group drew international attention from its debut album “El Callegueso y Su Mala Mana.”

Last year, it released the EP “Radio Mambo Internacionale AM.” The band also performs Sunday at 12:40 p.m. on the Festival Stage and at 3:10 p.m. in the Cultural Exchange Pavilion.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND

5:30-7 P.M. SATURDAY GENTILLY STAGE Vampire Weekend made a big splash with the release of its self-titled album in 2008. It took the indie rock world by storm with its upbeat pop sound, an enthusiastic embrace of disparate influences by a group that met in college in New York City. Things went well through 2013’s “Modern Vampires of the City,” but a few years later Rostam Batmanglij officially left the band, (though he contributed to later recordings), and the group went mostly quiet for a few years. Their fourth album, “Father of the Bride” was a triumphant return, gaining several Grammy nominations and winning the band’s second Best Alternative Music Album trophy. In early April, remaining core members Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio and Chris Thomson released their fifth album, “Only God Was Above Us.” The record has the band’s hallmark eclectic flourishes and upbeat vibes, though the sound and lyrics are not quite as breezy as the early albums.

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5:20-7 P.M. SATURDAY FESTIVAL STAGE Chris Stapleton has had a decorated career since releasing his solo debut.

He wasn’t new to the industry. The Kentucky native had written hits for country stars like Kenny Chesney, and he put together a Southern rock band before focusing on his solo work. But since releasing “Traveller” in 2015, he’s collected 10 Grammy awards and been named the Country Music Awards’ Male Vocalist of the Year seven times. Currently, he is nominated for the Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year and Male Artist of the Year (winners will be announced in May). He’s done this with his big voice and a sound that’s a country cousin to classic rock and not steeped in the conventions of Nashville’s pop country. He released his latest album “Higher” in November. It’s full of songs of heartbreak, but it was produced by his wife Morgane Stapleton (who sometimes lends background vocals to his recordings) and it climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard country charts.

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11:15 A.M.-NOON SUNDAY GOSPEL TENT If it’s Sunday morning at Jazz Fest, then it’s time to go to church. Kicking off the action in the Gospel Tent Sunday is Bishop Joseph Carter & the Boyz. For more than five years, they have been performing in churches and festivals across the Gulf Coast. The band brings a classic funky, rockin’ style of gospel and praise to the stage, and combined with Bishop Carter’s crowd work and presence, it’ll have even the most hungover among the flock on their feet and feeling it.

ROSIE LEDET

11:20 A.M.-12:10 P.M. SUNDAY FAIS DO-DO STAGE Rosie “The Zydeco Sweetheart” Ledet has produced eleven records over her 30-year career in music. The Church Point native became fascinated with zydeco as a teenager, picking up the accordion after seeing Boozoo Chavis at the tender age of 17.

Since then, she and her band, the Zydeco Playboys, have become a pillar of the zydeco scene, with Ledet being one of a handful of women who over the years have successfully fronted bands in a traditionally male-dominated genre. From her precise playing to her powerful voice, Ledet leads one of zydeco’s most fun and energetic bands, ready-made for dancing and partying.

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12:15-1:10 P.M. SUNDAY BLUES TENT Jontavious Willis is part of a new generation of young, Black artists who over the last decade have come up in the blues world, working to reclaim one of the foundational genres of American music and reintroducing it to Black audiences. Along with Willis, that also includes Cristone “Kingfish” Ingram (who also is performing at Jazz Fest this year) and Marques Knox.

Mentored by legends Keb’ Mo’ and Taj Mahal — who called Willis “my Wonderboy, the Wunderkind” — the Greenville, Georgia, native Willis has been performing since 2014. Playing a country blues style spanning various styles from Delta to Texas and Piedmont blues, he’s produced two records, and his second album “Spectacular Class” earned him a Grammy nomination in 2020.

JACOBO VELEZ Y LA MAMBANEGRA

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Singer, saxophonist and producer Jacobo Velez and his La Mambanegra band mix traditional salsa, funk, R&B and Jamaican raggamuffin to create a sound they call “Cali breaksalsa.”

GAITA LOOP

12:40-1:25 P.M. SUNDAY CULTURAL PAVILION 3:35-4:20 P.M. SUNDAY RHYTHMPOURIUM In keeping with the festival’s inclusion of experimental international acts, there’s Colombia’s Gaita Loop. A multi-instrumentalist, Gaita Loop uses traditional Colombian instruments, samplers, vocals and even beatboxing to create a unique sound. Their 2021 single “Fuga” is a breathtaking mix of traditional Colombian music with drum and bass beats that combine for an infectiously danceable song.

SILVERSYNTHETIC

2:50-3:45 P.M. SUNDAY LAGNIAPPE STAGE Veterans of the local rock scene Silver Synthetic make their Jazz Fest debut this year. Founded in 2017 by frontman (and BJ’s bartender) Chris Lyons of Bottomfeeders, the band also includes former Bottomfeeders drummer Lucas Bogner, Kunal Prakash and Ben Jones. The band’s first EP came out during the early days of the pandemic in 2020, followed by the criminally overlooked first full album, the self-titled “Silver Synthetic” in 2021.

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11:30 A.M.-12:20 P.M. SUNDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION 4:30-4:45 P.M. SUNDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Jazz Fest is celebrating the music and culture of Colombia this year, and you don’t want to sleep on Joaquin Perez y Su Herencia Ancestral. According to El Universal, Perez founded the nine-piece band as a way to highlight and celebrate Colombia’s traditional styles of music, including cumbia, and it features a variety of

drums and other percussion instruments, flutes and dancers. The band hails from Barranquilla, a port city of Colombia’s Atlantic coast known for its Carnival traditions. The group also leads a parade starting at the Cultural Exchange Pavilion at 4:30 p.m.

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The band melds classic rock ’n’ roll, old school pop and a fair bit of country to create a dreamy, melodic sound that’s reminiscent of what an early ’90s, countrified Beatles would have sounded like.

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2:50-3:35 P.M. SUNDAY CONGO SQUARE STAGE 5-6 P.M. SUNDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Hailing from San Basilio de Palenque, the first free Black town in the Americas, the group raps in Spanish and Palenquero to create a fusion of contemporary hip-hop and percussion from handmade drums.

MICHAEL FRANTI AND SPEARHEAD

3:45-4:50 P.M. SUNDAY FESTIVAL STAGE Since the mid-’80s, Michael Franti has been putting out high energy music that mixes an unabashedly political and socially conscious worldview with a joy and hopefulness often missing from similarly themed work.

Franti doesn’t have a single style.

He often plays reggae, sure. But he’s branched out into everything else, from other forms of Afro-Caribbean music to rock to underground hiphop with the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and even the more pop-ish positivity of his latest release, 2023’s “Big Big Love.”

Over his career Franti has won a well-deserved reputation for putting on a fantastic, tight performance and his turn on Jazz Fest’s main stage will be one not to miss.

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4:15-5:40 P.M. SUNDAY FAIS-DO-DO STAGE Even in an industry like music chock full of weirdos and eccentrics, Bela Fleck stands out as an oddity. Over his nearly 50-year career, Fleck has perfected what can only be described as a psychedelic banjo style of picking that draws from psych rock, bluegrass, jazz, world music and even experimental electronic genres to create his signature style.

Fleck, who has said he first became interested in the banjo because of Earl Scruggs’ theme song for the TV show “The Beverly Hillbillies,” started his career busking on the streets of Boston. Since then, as a solo artist and with his bands Bela Fleck and the

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by Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz and Bryan Sutton. He will be interviewed at 1 p.m. on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage.

HEART

5:30-7 P.M. SUNDAY GENTILLY STAGE Long before bands like Pearl Jam and Sub Pop Records solidified grunge as the Seattle “sound,” there was Heart.

In fact, during their 2013 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, the late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell cited the band as a key influence on not only his development as a musician but on Seattle’s broader rock scene.

Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson have been the literal heart of the band since they first hit the scene in 1973, and the band is considered to be the first “hard” rock act to be fronted by women. Since their 1975 breakout debut record “Dreamboat Annie,” Heart has been a mainstay of classic arena rock across the globe with their hard charging, infectious style of rock ’n’ roll. They’ve had more than two dozen songs on Billboard’s Top 100 list over their career, including classics like “Magic Man,” “Crazy on You” and “Barracuda,” and they’ve sold more than 35 million records and produced top 10 records in four different decades.

THE ALLMAN BETTS BAND

5:35-7 P.M. SUNDAY BLUES TENT Don’t let the name fool you, the Allman Betts Band isn’t some sort of tribute act to the first families of Southern rock. Founded in 2018 by Devon Allman (son of Gregg) and Duane Betts (son of Dickie), the Allman Betts Band stands on their own Southern fried music feet.

Not that fans of the original Allman Brothers Band won’t feel at home at the Blues Tent stage on Sunday. In their relatively brief history, the band has produced two records, 2019’s “Down by the River” and the 2020 follow-up “Bless Your Heart,” both of which draw from the classic sensibilities of the late rock legends. But the Betts and Allman scions have put their own spin on things, and generally their shows focus on original material with some covers of their fathers’ work thrown in.

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5:40-7 P.M. SUNDAY CONGO SQUARE STAGE Jazz Fest will be graced by some of New Orleans’ true hip-hop royalty when Juvenile and Mannie Fresh take to the Congo Square stage Sunday along with the legendary Hot Boy Young Turk.

Raised in the Magnolia Projects, Juvenile first hit the local scene with his 1995 debut record “Being Myself.”

After signing with Cash Money, Juvenile hit his stride, releasing his second record “Solja Rags” in 1997, in what would become the first of many collaborations with Fresh, as well as joining Lil Wayne in the Hot Boyz. But

it was 1998’s “400 Degreez” that truly cemented Juvie as an international superstar, featuring classics like “Back That Azz Up” and “Ha.” Over the last year, Juvie has seen a resurgence on the national and international scene, parlaying a now legendary Tiny Desk performance into a national tour, while here at home he’s continued to hold it down at his weekly parties at Treme Hideaway, put out a hard tea through Urban South and even a new type of CheeWees, dubbed 400 Degreez.

Fresh, meanwhile, remains the godfather of New Orleans hip-hop, whose influence can be felt across the decades thanks to his skills as a DJ, MC and producer (and Gambit’s Dec. 24, 2023 cover model!). Since his earliest days in New York Incorporated to his work with Juvenile today, Fresh has been a singular presence in the history of hip-hop and bounce music.

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AT JA Z Z F E S T The Rolling Stones, shown here at a 2019 show at the Superdome, perform at Jazz Fest on Thursday.

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ELECTRIFYING CROWN SEEKERS

12:05-12:45 P.M. THURSDAY GOSPEL TENT The Electrifying Crown Seekers were formed in 1965 by James Williams Sr., who died in 2020.

Members of his family keep his legacy alive, and the group remains a mainstay at Jazz Fest. They perform in the raw quartet style, aka four-part harmony made famous by groups like The Dixie Hummingbirds and the Blind Boys of Alabama.

ENKELE

12:15-1:10 P.M. THURSDAY JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

2:25-3:30 P.M. THURSDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION While women have been welcomed as singers in traditional Afro-Colombian music, they rarely have been found playing instruments. The all-women group Enkele is breaking that barrier in Colombian music through its percussion-forward music from the northern regions of the country.

Enkele also performs Friday at 11:20 a.m. on the Festival Stage and at 3:30 in the Cultural Exchange Pavilion. Members of the band also will be interviewed at 1:15-2 p.m. on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage.

2:10-3:10 P.M. THURSDAY GENTILLY STAGE Named for the marsh that borders Louisiana and Mississippi, the New Orleans-based Honey Island Swamp Band incorporates heaps of blues, soul,

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2:05-3:20 P.M. THURSDAY CONGO SQUARE STAGE This woman-fronted reggae group formed almost 25 years ago and regularly brings Jamaican sounds including dancehall and soca music to Frenchmen Street clubs like Cafe Negril and d.b.a.

The group is based in New Orleans but has extensively toured, opening for legends like Steel Pulse and Burning Spear.

2:10-3:20 P.M. THURSDAY FAIS DO-DO STAGE Jeffery Broussard is a virtuoso on the accordion and has been a musician since he was a young child growing up in Acadiana. He cut his chops playing drums in his dad’s band, Delton Broussard & the Lawtell Playboys. Eventually, he moved onto the accordion, following in the footsteps of his older brother Clinton. From there he continued learning the Creole zydeco musical traditions, while also modernizing his sound. The band’s performances are wide ranging and eclectic, sure to get fans on their feet.

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2:10-3:15 P.M. THURSDAY ECONOMY HALL Taking in a live performance by the New Orleans Jazz Vipers is like taking a romantic trip back in time to the flirtatious, feverish days of the Jazz Age. The spirited swing jazz band is led by saxophonist Joe Braun, trombonist Craig Klein and pianist Steve DeTroy. The group was a longtime fixture at The Spotted Cat on Frenchmen Street, and now has a weekly residency at the nearby Royal Frenchmen Hotel. Its repertoire includes originals and classics

by Louis Armstrong, Count Baisie, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday, with their most recent release being 2020’s “Is There a Chance for Me.”

2:15-3:30 P.M. THURSDAY BLUES TENT Swamp pop icons Tommy McLain and C.C. Adcock have teamed up for years. In fact, Adcock remembers hanging out in music clubs as a teenager to see McLain, over 30 years his senior, perform.

Eventually, they formed a friendship and musical partnership. Adcock fondly refers to McLain as his “swamp poppa,” and produced his critically acclaimed 2022 album, “I Ran Down Every Dream.”

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country and R&B into its extensive repertoire. The group released its latest record “Custom Deluxe” in October 2023, drawing comparisons to The Allman Brothers, Neville Brothers and The Eagles.

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The duo will be joined by pianist Jon Cleary and saxophonist Dickie Landry, and the ensemble plans to perform many of McLain’s Gulf Coast classics, as well as some newer tracks.

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2:45-3:45 P.M. THURSDAY JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE Los Guiros blends electronica, folk music, Latin sounds and other worldly influences into their high-energy sets. The group calls its style “psychedelic cumbia” — incorporating traditions of the genre born as a Colombian dance music — and infusing it with trippy, tropical New Orleans flavor. Los Guiros is a major component of New Orleans’ up and coming Latin music scene. Their catchy single, “Cumbia Mezcal,” is like a boozy vacation in song form and a nod to the old Mexican saying, “When everything is bad: Mezcal. When everything is good: also!”

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THE ROLLING STONES

5-7 P.M. THURSDAY FESTIVAL STAGE The Rolling Stones need no introduction from us. After all, the British legends have been together for nearly seven decades and are widely considered to be the pioneers of hard rock ‘n’ roll. But it’s fitting that the Stones will finally stake the stage at New Orleans’ biggest music festival, as the group’s sound has been heavily influenced by Southern (and Chicago-style) blues over the years, all the way from across the pond. Plus, the momentum has been building: The Stones were originally booked to play at Jazz Fest in 2019 but canceled due to frontman Mick Jagger’s heart surgery.

The group returned to New Orleans for a sort of make-up show a few months later at the Superdome — its first local set in 25 years. In 2021, the fest tried to book the band as headliners, but the COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench in everyone’s plans, forcing the entire festival to be canceled. And the band also lost legendary drummer Charlie Watts in 2021. Now, New Orleanians and visitors from far and wide finally have a chance to see the Stones live and in full rock and roll glory at the Fair Grounds.

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11:20 A.M.-NOON FRIDAY FESTIVAL STAGE 3:30-4:20 P.M. FRIDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION The all-women group, which takes its name from an African Bantu word meaning wisdom, performs a mix of music and dance with its roots in Afro-Caribbean culture. Read more about Enkele in Thursday’s listings on page 27.

PATRICE FISHER & ARPA

12:40-1:30 P.M. FRIDAY LAGNIAPPE STAGE New Orleans harpist Patrice Fisher and her group Arpa focus on Latin jazz with some local flavor thrown in. Fisher has been a Jazz Fest staple since the early ’90s, and this year, she’ll be joined by guest musicians from French Guyana and Martinique.

CREOLE GROUP

12:40-1:40 P.M. FRIDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION 3:15-4:15 P.M. FRIDAY JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE Hailing from San Andres, a Caribbean island governed by Colombia, Creole Group formed in 1986 as a way to preserve the island’s Creole language and musical identity. Using acoustic guitars, mandolin, a jaw bone and washtub bass, the band plays a blend of calypso, mento, reggae, quadrille and other Caribbean styles.

Creole Group also plays at 12:40 p.m. Saturday in the Cultural Exchange Pavilion.

BEJUCO

5-6 P.M. FRIDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION From Tumaco, a city along Colombia’s Pacific Coast, Bejuco roots its sound in marimba music, bambuco and Afro-Colombian musical traditions, but also incorporates Afrobeat, rap and other global

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influences for a high-energy, percussive style the band has coined “bambuco beat.” The group of forward-looking musicians released its captivating first album, “Batea,” in 2021.

Bejuco also plays Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Cultural Exchange Pavilion and at 4:35 p.m. on the Jazz & Heritage Stage.

GERMAINE BAZZLE

1:30-2:20 P.M. FRIDAY WWOZ JAZZ TENT Germaine Bazzle has been recognized as New Orleans’ “First Lady of Jazz” and drawn acclaim for her vocal abilities and expert knowledge of the American Songbook. Last year, though, she decided to retire, and there just aren’t as many opportunities anymore to see Bazzle perform. Jazz Fest is a special occasion — and a rare chance that shouldn’t be missed.

ANDERS OSBORNE

1:30-2:35 P.M. FRIDAY FESTIVAL STAGE By the time he takes the Jazz Fest stage, roots rocker Anders Osborne will have just released his 17th full-length album, “Picasso’s Villa.” On his latest record, the New Orleans singer-guitarist reflects on American life between 2018-2021, the fears and chaos but also the good that can be found in friendship, family and self-work. Osborne is acclaimed for his fierce guitar work, and along with his extensive solo career, he has written hits for artists including Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and Keb Mo.

GIRLS PLAY TRUMPET TOO

1:50-2:35 P.M. FRIDAY CHILDREN’S TENT Girls Play Trumpet Too is a music education program teaching the trumpet to New Orleans girls ages

8-19 and introducing them into the city’s brass band tradition. The group has been showcased at the Satchmo SummerFest, and now the young women of Girls Play Trumpet Too will show off their skills at Jazz Fest’s Children’s Tent. Trumpeter and educator Troy Sawyer started the group in 2022, and earlier this year, he and two of the program’s students appeared on “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”

CHARLIE GABRIEL & FRIENDS

1:55-2:45 P.M. FRIDAY ECONOMY HALL Charlie Gabriel, a clarinetist, saxophonist and flutist, was raised in a family of New Orleans musicians and started playing with the Eureka Brass Band when he was just 11 years old. In the 80 years since then, Gabriel has played with Lionel Hampton, Aretha Franklin, Doc Cheatham and many others.

Today, he’s the musical director of the Preservation Hall Foundation and a New Orleans jazz icon. He released an album, “89,” in 2022.

CYRIL NEVILLE

2:40-3:40 P.M. FRIDAY CONGO SQUARE STAGE A member of The Meters and The Neville Brothers, leader of Swamp Funk and Tribe 13 and a collaborator with acts like Galactic, Cyril Neville is one of the living legends of New Orleans funk. His Jazz Fest sets tend to include originals, some New Orleans staples and occasionally a Wild Tchoupitoulas song.

ARRIANNE KEELEN

2:50-3:35 P.M. FRIDAY GOSPEL TENT New Orleans-born vocalist Arrianne Keelen has performed with gospel musicians Don Moen, Lisa McClendon, Cynthia Liggins-Thomas, and she won the Essence Making a Star Competition, lead-

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ALLISON RUSSELL

3:55-5:05 P.M. FRIDAY BLUES TENT Before launching her solo career, Americana singer-songwriter Allison Russell performed in the roots bands Po’ Girl, Birds of Chicago and Our Native Daughters, the acclaimed project with Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah and Leyla McCalla.

Her 2021 album, “Outside Child,” was met with a wave of accolades, as was the follow-up, last year’s “The Returner.” With funk, soul and R&B influences, “The Returner” is an album about finding joy “despite all of the turmoil and tragedy and trouble,” Russell told Gambit last year.

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4:10-5:20 P.M. FRIDAY WWOZ JAZZ TENT Since last year’s Jazz Fest, New Orleans-born trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and became the executive artistic director of the prestigious San Francisco organization SFJazz.

In 2023, he won a Grammy for the recording of his opera “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” He’ll again be joined at this year’s festival by the E-Collective and the classical and jazz string group The Turtle Island Quartet.

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LULU & THE BROADSIDES

4:15-5:05 P.M. FRIDAY LAGNIAPPE STAGE Lulu & The Broadsides plays vintage-style rhythm and blues meant for dancing. Vocalist Dayna Kurtz fronts this top-notch band with bassist James Singleton, guitarist Robert Mache, drummer Randy Crafton and pianist Glenn Hartman. Their 2022 self-titled debut will help loosen up your feet.

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4:25-5:35 P.M. FRIDAY FAIS DO-DO STAGE The Lee Boys specialize in sacred steel, a genre centered around the steel guitar, rooted in gospel and Black church traditions and fired up with blues, rock and funk. The energetic family band formed in south Florida and over the last 20 years have toured consistently and

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performed with artists like Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples and Robert Plant.

The Lee Boys will be interviewed at 2:15 on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage.

TUBAD

4:45-5:30 P.M. FRIDAY RHYTHMPOURIUM New Orleans multi-instrumentalist and singer Tubad blends laid-back soul, hip-hop and funk. Along with his original music, Tubad also is a producer who makes his own beats and plays trumpet and electric clarinet around the French Quarter. This is his Jazz Fest debut.

FOO FIGHTERS

5-7 P.M. FRIDAY FESTIVAL STAGE The Foo Fighters’ return to Jazz Fest has been a long road. The rock band was scheduled for the 2020 and 2021 festivals, which were both canceled due to the pandemic, and it seemed things were in the clear for them to headline in 2022. But drummer Taylor Hawkins’ sudden death that spring prompted Dave Grohl and the band to cancel the rest of their dates and take some time to process the loss. There was an outpouring of heartbreak over the news, including tributes from Stevie Nicks and the Red Hot Chili Peppers at Jazz Fest 2022. After a tough year, Foo Fighters released the powerful album “But Here We Are” last summer in memory of Hawkins and Grohl’s late mother, Virginia.

HOZIER

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INFO HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO HELP YOU MAKE THE MOST OF JAZZ FEST 2024 Jazz Fest is a big event, and there’s a lot going on besides the music. Read below for information about the Food Heritage Stage, Kids Tent, going cashless, transportation details and more. There also are slight alterations to what’s permissible on the grounds for Thursday, May 2.

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FOOD HERITAGE STAGE Jazz Fest presents cooking demonstrations with different daily themes at its Food Heritage Stage in the Grandstands, every day of the festival except May 2.

FRIDAY, MAY 3 Caribbean chef Francisco Escalona will demonstrate Colombian dishes such as stewed crab and “stuck” rice, with sessions and different dishes at 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, MAY 4 The day’s Farm to Fest programing is a collaboration with HOMEGROWN and features demonstrations of cheese making, presentations about local nonprofits like Grow Dat Youth Farm and more. Chef Serigne Mbaye of Dakar NOLA discusses the intersection of food, culture and history with Zella Palmer, chair of Dillard University’s Ray Charles Program in African-American Material Culture. Stacy Hall of the Crescent City Farmers Market discusses seasonality.

SUNDAY, MAY 5 Drag brunch sessions feature Poppy Tooker, Laveau Contraire, Debbie with a D, Cucci Licci, and food from chef Nicole Mills of Peche Seafood Grill. There are sessions at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

TRANSPORTATION

ON THE GROUNDS JAZZ FEST IS CASHLESS The box office and food and other vendors accept credit cards, debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay and prepaid cards. Prepaid cards may be purchased on the grounds. Cash exchange booths are located near the Blues Tent and between the Congo Square Marketplace and Congo Food area.

JAZZ FEST IS ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES For information in advance, email access@nojazzfest.com. There is an Access Center with information on services and facilities. It is located in front of the Grandstand. Limited parking in an accessible lot is available for $50 per day.

THERE ARE TWO MEDICAL TENTS ON THE FESTIVAL GROUNDS One is near the edge of the track between the Gentilly and Fais Do-Do stages; the other is on the edge of the track between the Festival Stage and Jazz & Heritage Stage.

WATER FILLING STATIONS There are water stations near the Rhythmpourium and at the end of the Food 2 area on the Grandstands side.

ALLOWED ON THE GROUNDS

Below is information on what Jazz Fest allows and prohibits on the grounds. There are metal detectors and bag searches at the entrances.

JAZZ FEST PERMITS: ▶ Small bags and backpacks (17 by 12 by 10 inches) and 12-pack soft coolers ▶ Single, collapsible chairs ▶ Wheelchairs and medical scooters ▶ Push strollers for children ▶ Blankets and small tarps not exceeding 6 by 8 feet ▶ Factory-sealed bottled water and snacks for personal consumption ▶ Hand-held, personal-sized umbrellas ▶ Fully trained service animals to assist attendees with disabilities ▶ On May 2 only, the festival allows some foldable tripod and telescoping stools and chairs in some designated areas

Gray Line’s Jazz Fest Express operates continuous round-trip transportation from various pick-up locations onto festival grounds. Pick-up locations include the Sheraton Hotel (500 Canal St.), Steamboat Natchez Dock (400 Toulouse St.), 1250 Poydras St. in the CBD, and New Orleans City Park (Wisner Boulevard near Filmore Avenue) beginning at 10:30 a.m. Single day tickets are $24 from downtown or $20 from City Park. For the first weekend, four-day passes are $82, and for the second weekend, three-day passes are $61.

For ticket sales on day of transport, the shuttle accepts credit cards only, no cash. For more information call (504) 569-1401 or visit graylineneworleans.com/jazzfest-express.

JAZZ FEST PROHIBITS: ▶ Large or hard-sided coolers and soft or rolling coolers larger than 12-pack size ▶ Rolling bags ▶ Wagons and carts ▶ Pets ▶ Glass ▶ Personal tents ▶ Playpens or portable cribs ▶ Shade canopies, shelters or beach or pole-style umbrellas ▶ Athletic games, kites and throwing discs ▶ Large chairs with rockers, foot rests, side tables, etc. ▶ Bicycles or other wheeled personal transport devices (e.g. skateboards, hoverboards, go-peds and Segways) are not allowed inside the gates ▶ Video- and audiorecording equipment ▶ Unauthorized vending or promotional items ▶ Weapons, illicit drugs and other contraband ▶ Outside beverages except factory-sealed water ▶ Inserting stakes, poles or any other objects into the ground, or use of ropes, cords, tape, etc. to reserve space ▶ Inflatable items ▶ Drones ▶ On May 2 only, the festival prohibits tarps, blankets, carts or wheeled ice chests and chairs with over a 19-inch base.

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KIDS TENT

S TA F F P H O T O B Y S O P H I A G E R M E R / T H E T I M E S - P I C AY U N E

The kids area features several tents and a peace garden. The main tent features music, dance, puppetry, circus arts, music trivia and more from its stage. Other daily happenings in the kids area include family games, a range of hands-on crafts, STEM-related displays, health and wellness activities and more. New this year is a greenscreen video exercise for kids to create their own GIFs. There’s a silent disco for tweens every day from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. At 2 p.m. Saturday, there is a mini-Carnival parade that kids can join.

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Limited bicycle parking is available near the Gentilly Boulevard and Sauvage Street entrances.

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Wayne Toups

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5:30

5:00

Chris Stapleton

5:20-7:00

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

4:00

4:30

3:25-4:40

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3:00

1:50-2:50

Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue

12:30-1:30

John Hollier

11:20-12:10

2:00

1:30

1:00

12:30

12:00

11:30

FESTIVAL STAGE

Vampire Weekend

5:30-7:00

Hurray for the Riff Raff

4:00-5:00

Motel Radio

2:45-3:40

Boyfriend

1:30-2:25

New Birth Brass Band

Fantasia

5:45-7:00

Big Freedia

4:10-5:15

Bomba Estéreo

Nicholas Payton & The Nth Power

5:50-7:00

Charles Lloyd featuring Gerald Clayton, Larry Grenadier, Marcus Gilmore

4:10-5:25

Victor Campbell

2:45-3:45

Jason Marsalis

The Batiste Brothers Tribute to Russell Batiste

2:50-3:45

1:30-2:25

1:30-2:25

Hot 8 Brass Brand

Victor Atkins Quintet

12:20-1:10

The Robert Cray Band

5:45-7:00

Selwyn Birchwood

4:15-5:15

Deacon John

2:50-3:50

James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars

1:35-2:30

Sierra Green and The Giants

12:25-1:15

Robin Barnes and The FiyaBirds

People Museum

12:20-1:10

Jonathon “Boogie” Long

Delgado Community College Jazz Band

12:20-1:05

11:15-12:05

11:15-Noon

11:15-Noon

11:15-Noon

BLUES TENT

CONGO SQUARE STAGE

SHELL GENTILLY STAGE

WWOZ JAZZ TENT

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

5:45-7:00

Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. and The Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band

4:15-5:15

Pine Leaf Boys

3:00-3:50

Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band

1:35-2:35

Flagboy Giz

5:55-6:45

Midnite Disturbers

Antioch Baptist Church Choir

6:10-6:50

The Johnson Extension

5:15-6:00

4:45-5:35

4:00-5:00

The City of Love Music & Worship Arts Choir

2:50-3:35

Jessica Harvey and The Difference

1:55-2:40

Connie and Dwight Fitch with St. Raymond & St. Leo the Great Choir

1:00-1:45

E’Dana

12:05-12:50

Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church Mass Choir

11:15-12:10

PRESENTED BY MORRIS BART

GOSPEL TENT

The Gospel Soul of Irma Thomas

Los Cumbia Stars

3:15-4:25

Storyville Stompers Brass Band

1:50-2:50

Javier Olondo & AsheSon

12:30-1:30

Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indians

11:20-12:05

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

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Hot Club of New Orleans

5:55-6:50

Don Vappie’s Creole Jazz Serenaders

4:35-5:35

Wycliffe Gordon

3:10-4:10

Dr. Michael White’s Original Liberty Jazz Band with guest Thais Clark

1:45-2:45

Treme Brass Band

Creole String Beans

12:25-1:15

Amis du Teche

Lars Edergan & the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra

12:30-1:25

11:20-12:05

FAIS DO-DO STAGE

SHERATON NEW ORLEANS

11:15-12:10

ECONOMY HALL TENT

Lynn Drury

5:25-6:15

Dylan LeBlanc

4:05-5:05

Alex McMurray Band

2:45-3:40

Lilli Lewis Project

1:35-2:25

Ghalia Volt

12:35-1:20

Minos the Saint

11:30-12:15

LAGNIAPPE STAGE

Jacobo Vélez y La Mambanegra

4:55-6:00

Parade - Joaquín Pérez y su Herencia Ancestral

4:25-4:40

Agrupación Changó

3:30-4:20

Kombilesa Mi

2:05-3:05

Los Cumbia Stars

12:40-1:40

Gaita Loop

11:30-12:15

CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION

SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

Victor Campbell

4:45-5:30

Clay Parker and Jodi James

3:30-4:20

Michael “The Sheik” O’Hara

2:20-3:05

Dave Jordan’s Almost Acoustic

1:10-1:55

Renée Gros & Tiago Guy

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Jacobo Vélez y La Mambanegra

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Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals

5:30-7:00

Michael Franti & 4:30 Spearhead

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Heart

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Tami Neilson

4:10-5:00

Amanda Shaw and The Cute Guys

2:55-3:45

Bon Bon Vivant

1:45-2:35

LVVRS

12:30-1:20

Stooges Brass Band

12:40-1:40

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The Dirty Dozen 3:00 Brass Band

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SHELL GENTILLY STAGE

FESTIVAL STAGE

Juvenile with Mannie Fresh

5:40-7:00

Rebirth Brass Band

4:00-5:10

Kombilesa Mi

Patrice Rushen

5:45-7:00

Lawrence Sieberth’s Estrella Banda

4:15-5:15

Trumpet Mafia

2:50-3:50

2:50-3:35

Tonya BoydCannon

Louis Armstrong Camp 30th Anniv. Band featuring Donald Harrison Jr., Wycliffe Gordon, Davell Crawford, and Jazz Camp Allstar Alumni

1:30-2:30

Oscar Rossignoli Quintet

1:40-2:30

Rumba Buena

12:25-1:20

Marc Stone

NOCCA Jazz Ensemble

Indys Blu

The Allman Betts Band

5:35-7:00

Toronzo Cannon

4:05-5:05

Eric Lindell

2:45-3:45

Charmaine Neville Band

1:30-2:25

Jontavious Willis Band

12:15-1:10

11:10-11:55

11:15-Noon

11:15-Noon

12:20-1:10

BLUES TENT

CONGO WWOZ SQUARE STAGE JAZZ TENT

Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band

6:05-7:00

Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart featuring: Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Bryan Sutton

4:15-5:40

Bonsoir, Catin

2:55-3:45

The Iguanas

1:40-2:35

Jambalaya Cajun Band

12:30-1:20

Rosie Ledet

11:20-12:10

SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE

Pocket Aces Brass Band

5:40-6:40

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & The Golden Eagles

4:25-5:20

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Herbert McCarver & The Pin Stripe Brass Band

1:40-2:40

Mardi Gras Indians

Fi Yi Yi & the Mandingo Warriors

12:35-1:20

Kumbuka African Drum & Dance Collective

11:20-12:10

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

Joy Clark

Craig Adams & Higher Dimensions of Praise

6:10-6:55

5:20-6:15

Arthur and Friends Community Choir

Tyron Benoit Band

4:05-5:00

Silver Synthetic

2:50-3:45

Helen Gillet

1:40-2:30

Yusa Cuban Soul Band

12:35-1:25

Paula & the Pontiacs

11:30-12:15

LAGNIAPPE STAGE

5:20-6:00

The Anointed Jackson Sisters

4:00-5:00

Evangelist Jackie Tolbert

2:55-3:40

Tyronne Foster & The Arc Singers

2:00-2:45

Coolie Family Gospel Singers

1:05-1:50

Leo Jackson & The Melody Clouds

12:10-12:55

Bishop Joseph Carter & The Boyz

11:15-Noon

PRESENTED BY MORRIS BART

GOSPEL TENT

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Stephen Walker N’em Swinging in New Orleans

5:55-6:45

Wendell Brunious & the New Orleans All Stars

4:35-5:35

Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses

3:00-4:10

Gregg Stafford & His Young Tuxedo Brass Band

1:40-2:35

Gerald French & The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band

12:25-1:20

Tommy Sancton’s New Orleans Legacy Band

11:15-12:05

ECONOMY HALL TENT

Kombilesa Mi

5:00-6:00

4:30-4:45

Parade: Joaquín Pérez y su Herencia Ancestral

Jacobo Vélez y La Mambanegra

3:10-4:20

Cheikh Ibra Fam of Senegal

1:45-2:45

Gaita Loop

12:40-1:25

Joaquín Pérez y su Herencia Ancestral

11:30-12:30 11:30-12:20

CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION

SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

Yusa

4:45-5:30

Gaita Loop

3:35-4:20

Marc Stone

2:20-3:10

Shawn Williams

1:10-1:55

Dusky Waters

Noon-12:45

RHYTHMPOURIUM

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4:30

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3:30

3:00

2:30

2:00

1:30

1:00

The Rolling Stones

5:00-7:00

Dumpstaphunk

3:10-4:25

Samanth Fish

1:30-2:40

New Breed Brass Band with guest Trombone Shorty

Honey Island Swamp Band

2:10-3:10

John “Papa” Gros

12:45-1:45

Noon-1:05

Higher Heights Reggae

2:05-3:20

The Cole Williams Band

12:40-1:40

Ariee & The AMG Band

Darcy Malone & The Tangle

12:00

12:30

11:20-12:20

CONGO SQUARE STAGE

11:25-12:25

SHELL GENTILLY STAGE

11:30

FESTIVAL STAGE

THURSDAY, MAY 2

Trevarri

2:30-3:30

Ricky Sebastian & Pat Casey present the music of Jaco Pastorius

12:55-2:05

The Betty Shirley Band

11:30-12:30

WWOZ JAZZ TENT

New Orleans Jazz Vipers

2:10-3:15

Mark Braud’s New Orleans Jazz Giants

12:40-1:45

Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys

2:10-3:20

Lacher Prise avec Michael Douce

12:45-1:45

The Mid-City Aces

11:20-12:25

FAIS DO-DO STAGE

SHERATON NEW ORLEANS

Los Güiros

2:45-3:45

High Steppers Brass Band

1:30-2:25

Enkelé

12:15-1:10

Semolian Warriors Mardi Gras Indians

11:15-11:55

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

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Tommy McLain & C.C. Adcock

2:15-3:30

Eden Brent

12:45-1:50

Andy J Forest & The Swampcrawlers

11:15-12:15

11:15-12:20

Joe Lastie’s New Orleans Sound

ECONOMY HALL TENT

BLUES TENT

Enkelé

2:25-3:30

Parade - Batámbora

1:55-2:10

Los Güiros

12:40-1:40

Batámbora

11:30-12:15

CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION

SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

The Gospel Inspirations of Boutte

2:40-3:25

Paulette Wright

1:45-2:30

Lyle Henderson & Emmanu-EL

12:55-1:35

The Electrifying Crown Seekers

12:05-12:45

Prophetess Flora and The Angels of Light Gospel Singers

11:15-11:55

PRESENTED BY MORRIS BART

GOSPEL TENT

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4:30

4:00

3:30

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2:30

2:00

1:30

1:00

12:30

12:00

11:30

Foo Fighters

5:00-7:00

Galactic featuring Anjelika Jelly Joseph

3:00-4:10

Anders Osborne

1:30-2:35

Original Pinettes Brass Band

12:15-1:05

Enkelé

11:20-Noon

FESTIVAL STAGE

HOZIER

5:30-7:00

Marc Broussard

Steel Pulse

5:35-7:00

The Soul Rebels

4:05-5:05

The Uptown Ruler Cyril Neville

Davell Crawford with special guests Steve Jordan & Jay Jay French

4:00-4:55

2:40-3:40

Bejuco

1:30-2:20

79rs Gang

12:20-1:10

2:40-3:35

Bonerama

1:30-2:20

Ray Boudreaux

12:20-1:10

Matachindé

Germaine Bazzle

Stefon Harris & Blackout

5:45-7:00

Terence Blanchard feat. The E-Collective & Turtle Island Quartet

4:10-5:20

Amina Figarova Sextet and the Matsiko World Orphan Choir

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

5:35-7:00

Allison Russell

3:55-5:05

Guitar Slim Jr.

2:40-3:30

Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns

2:45-3:45

1:30-2:20

Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band

12:25-1:10

1:30-2:20

Peter Harris and Firm Roots ft. Herlin Riley, Dwight Fitch, Jr., Derek Douget and Ashlin Parker

12:20-1:10

Duwayne Burnside

Southern University Baton Rouge Jazz Ensemble

Naughty Professor

11:15-12:05

11:15-Noon

11:15-Noon

BLUES TENT

11:15-Noon

CONGO WWOZ SQUARE STAGE JAZZ TENT

SHELL GENTILLY STAGE

Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rôdailleurs

6:00-7:00

The Lee Boys

4:25-5:35

Lil’ Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers

3:00-4:00

Zachary Richard

1:40-2:40

Andrew Duhon

12:25-1:20

Ryan Foret & Foret Tradition

11:15-12:05

SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE

Big Chief Juan & Jockimo’s Groove

5:55-6:45

Lil Mike & Funny Bone

4:35-5:35

Creole Group

3:15-4:15

Da Truth Brass Band

1:50-2:50

Big Chief Kevin Goodman & the Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians

12:35-1:25

Free Agents Brass Band

11:20-12:15

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

Mount Hermon Baptist Church Praise Delegation Choir

6:05-6:45

Arthur Clayton IV and Anointed For Purpose

5:10-5:55

James Fortune

3:55-4:55

Arrianne Keelen

2:50-3:35

Shades of Praise New Orleans Interracial Gospel Choir

1:55-2:40

Tonia Scott and the Anointed Voices

1:00-1:45

The Legendary Rocks Of Harmony

12:05-12:50

Zulu Gospel Male Ensemble

11:15-11:55

PRESENTED BY MORRIS BART

GOSPEL TENT

Kim Carson & The Real Deal

5:25-6:15

Lulu & the Broadsides

4:15-5:05

Anna Moss & The Nightshades

3:05-3:55

New Orleans Guitar Masters: John Rankin, Jimmy Robinson, and Cranston Clements

1:50-2:45

Patrice Fisher & Arpa with guests from Martinique, France, and French Guyana

12:40-1:30

Gregg Hill

11:30-12:20

LAGNIAPPE STAGE

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Eight Dice Cloth

5:45-6:40

The Pfister Sisters

4:30-5:25

Tribute to Sweet Emma Barrett feat. Yolanda Robinson and Kiki Chapman with the Lars Edegran Band

3:10-4:10

Charlie Gabriel and Friends

1:55-2:45

Jamil Sharif

12:40-1:35

New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra

11:20-12:15

ECONOMY HALL TENT

Bejuco

5:00-6:00

4:30-4:45

Parade: Batámbora

Enkelé

3:30-4:20

Matachindé

2:05-3:05

Creole Group

12:40-1:40

Batámbora

11:30-12:15

CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION

SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

Tubad

4:45-5:30

Jourdan Thibodeaux, Cedric Watson, et Joel Savoy

3:35-4:20

Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band

2:25-3:10

The RamBull Rompers

1:10-2:00

Joan Caddell & The Midnight Choir

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Neil Young Crazy Horse

5:30-7:00

Tab Benoit

3:50-4:45

Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen

2:30-3:25

Cimarrón

1:20-2:05

Paul Sanchez and The Rolling Road Show

12:05-12:55

Kinfolk Brass Band

11:15-11:45

FESTIVAL STAGE

Maggie Koerner

Greta Van Fleet

5:20-7:00

Cowboy Mouth

3:45-4:45

Leo Nocentelli

2:05-3:20

Lucio Feuillet

Queen Latifah

5:40-7:00

ANTWIGADEE!

5:10-5:35

PJ Morton

3:45-5:00

ANTWIGADEE!

3:20-3:35

Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers

2:05-3:10

The Rumble feat. Chief Joseph Boudreaux, Jr.

12:40-1:40

Hotboy Ronald and Alfred Banks

12:45-1:40

11:20-12:20

Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, Brian Blade Legacy of Wayne Shorter with Special Guest Chris Potter

5:50-7:00

Samara Joy

4:10-5:25

Jesse McBride Big Band

2:45-3:45

James Rivers Movement

1:30-2:20

Blodie’s Jazz Jam

12:20-1:10

The Jazz St. Louis All-Stars

11:15-Noon

CONGO WWOZ SQUARE STAGE JAZZ TENT

11:20-12:20

SHELL GENTILLY STAGE

SATURDAY, MAY 4

Sonny Landreth

6:00-7:00

Rhiannon Giddens

4:15-5:30

Glen David Andrews

2:50-3:50

Johnny Sansone Band

1:35-2:25

Little Freddie King Blues Band

12:25-1:15

Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas

6:00-7:00

Nickel Creek

4:15-5:35

Hardhead Hunters Mardi Gras Indians

6:00-6:45

Bejuco

4:35-5:35

Kinfolk Brass Band

3:25-4:15

New Hope Baptist Church Mass Choir

6:10-6:50

Josh Kagler & Harmonistic Praise Crusade

5:15-6:00

Brian Courtney Wilson

4:00-5:00

Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries Mass Choir

BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet

Jermaine Landrum & The Abundant Praise Revival Choir

1:55-2:40

The Zion Harmonizers

1:00-1:45

Voices of Peter Claver

2:50-3:35

Matachindé

2:15-3:05

Black Magic Drumline

1:25-1:55

Bamboula 2000

12:15-1:05

12:05-12:50

11:15-11:55

Archdiocese of New Orleans Gospel Choir

11:15-11:55

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GOSPEL TENT

Big Chief Bird & The Young Hunters Mardi Gras Indians

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

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Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole

1:35-2:30

Feufollet

12:25-1:15

Yvette Landry & the Jukes

11:15-12:05

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Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes

5:00-6:10

Hans Williams

3:35-4:35

Ann Savoy: Another Heart

2:15-3:15

Kristin Diable & The City

12:50-1:50

Kelly Love Jones

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Palmetto Bug Stompers

5:40-6:35

Aurora Nealand’s Royal Roses

4:30-5:20

A Tribute to Johnny Dodds feat. Dr. Michael White, Washboard Chaz, and Jade Santrell

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Preservation Brass

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Gregg Stafford’s Jazz Hounds

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Smoking Time Jazz Club

11:15-12:05

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Joe Krown Trio +1 feat.

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Lucio Feuillet

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4:30-4:45 Parade: Batámbora

Cimarrón

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Bejuco

2:00-2:55

Creole Group

12:40-1:35

Matachindé

11:30-12:20

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The RiverBenders

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Pardon My French!

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Susanne Ortner’s Macumba

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The Radiators

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Bonnie Raitt

5:30-7:00

Celebrating Jimmy Buffett Joe with the Bonamassa Coral Reefer Band

3:25-5:05

Irma Thomas

2:30

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Dragon Smoke

George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners

1:55-3:00

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Earth, Wind & Fire

5:40-7:00

Jeffrey Osborne

3:45-5:00

DJ Captain Charles

3:15-3:30

Grupo Niche

2:05-3:05

Erica Falls and Vintage Soul

12:35-1:35

Real Love

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Water Seed

12:30-1:30

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Tower of Power

5:30-7:00

Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra

4:00-5:00

Quiana Lynell

2:40-3:35

Amina Scott

1:30-2:20

Victor Goines Quartet

George Thorogood & The Destroyers

5:40-7:00

Marcia Ball

4:10-5:10

Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience feat. Marcella Simien

2:50-3:50

Kenny Neal

1:35-2:30

John Mooney & Bluesiana

12:20-1:15

Johnny J & The Hitmen

UNO Jazz Studies Allstars

12:20-1:10

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The Wallflowers

5:30-7:00

Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers

4:05-5:00

Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias

5:40-6:40

Mariachi Jalisco

4:25-5:20

Soul Brass Band

Nineveh Baptist Church Mass Choir with Dr. Hezekiah Brinson

6:00-6:45

Franklin Avenue Baptist Church Mass Choir

5:05-5:50

The Tennessee Mass Choir

3:50-4:50

Jonté Landrum

Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars

Val & Love Alive Mass Choir

1:50-2:35

New Orleans Gospel Soul Children

12:55-1:40

Pastor Jai Reed

12:05-12:45

Wimberly Family Gospel Singers

11:15-11:55

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GOSPEL TENT

2:45-3:30 3:05-4:05

Muévelo

1:55-2:45

Dr. Brice Miller & Mahogany Brass Band

12:30-1:30

Conjunto Tierra Linda

11:20-12:10

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

2:45-3:40

Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys

1:35-2:25

Cimarrón

12:25-1:15

Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble

11:15-12:05

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Lena Prima and the TLP Band

5:20-6:15

New Orleans Klezmer Allstars

4:10-5:00

Funk Monkey featuring Arsene DeLay

3:00-3:50

Mahmoud Chouki

1:50-2:40

Julio y Cesar Band

12:45-1:30

Don “Moose” Jamison Heritage School of Music

11:30-12:20

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Kermit Ruffins’ Tribute to Louis Armstrong

5:35-6:45

The Paulin Brothers Traditional Brass Band

4:20-5:15

Tim Laughlin

3:05-4:00

Leroy Jones & New Orleans’ Finest

1:40-2:40

The Hot Plates

12:25-1:20

The Palm Court Jazz Band

ECONOMY HALL TENT

BLUES TENT

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Cimarrón

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Lucio Feuillet

3:40-4:35

3:10-3:30 Offstage: Mariachi Jalisco

RAM of Haiti

2:05-3:00

Parade: Lucio Feuillet

1:40-1:55

Matachindé

12:40-1:30

La Tran-K Band

11:30-12:15

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Mahmoud Chouki

4:45-5:30

Erica Falls

3:35-4:20

Tom McDermott and Aurora Nealand

2:25-3:10

Dwayne Dopsie

1:15-2:00

Burris

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STEEL PULSE

5:35-7 P.M., FRIDAY CONGO SQUARE STAGE Anchored by founding singer-guitarist David Hinds and longtime keyboardist Selwyn Brown, the British reggae band Steel Pulse is closing in on 50 years of anti-oppression, social justice-focused music. The band’s new music output has slowed in recent years — there’s been just two full-lengths since the ’90s — but Steel Pulse maintains a busy tour schedule and is a leader in the roots reggae scene.

5:35-7 P.M. FRIDAY BLUES TENT Christone “Kingfish” Ingram was on fire during his Jazz Fest debut last

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year. The Grammy-winning Mississippi singer-guitarist has been heralded as one of the leading players in a young generation carrying forward the blues torch, and his soul-digging set in the Blues Tent proved it. In January, Ingram released his first live album, recorded last summer in London. He’ll also sit down for an interview with American Routes host Nick Spitzer at 3:15 p.m.

Friday on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage.

6-7 P.M. FRIDAY FAIS DO-DO STAGE Jourdan Thibodeaux, a native of Cypress Island (south of Breaux Bridge), is among a group of young south Louisiana musicians working to not only preserve but progress Louisiana French and Cajun music.

Recently, he’s been gaining a social media following with his “Louisiana French du jour” lessons — which are usually pretty good Boudreaux and Thibodeaux jokes told in French.

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THU 4/25 8PM Toulouse Theatre Tell Me Something Good: A Tribute to Chaka Khan

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12:40-1:35 P.M. SATURDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Hailing from San Andres, a Caribbean island governed by Colombia, Creole Group formed in 1986 as a way to preserve the island’s Creole language and musical identity. Using acoustic guitars, mandolin, a jaw bone and washtub bass, the band plays a blend of calypso, mento, reggae, quadrille and other Caribbean styles. Read more about this group at 12:40 p.m. Friday (page 29).

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LUCIO FEUILLET

12:45-1:40 P.M. SATURDAY GENTILLY STAGE 5-6 P.M. SATURDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Guitarist Lucio Feuillet is from Narino on the Pacific Coast of Colombia along the western front of the Andes. He often performs solo in a slow-picking folk singer-songwriter style, but he also uses larger bands for the more upbeat sounds of the region’s Carnival celebrations, with strong Latin beats.

His 2021 album “Bailando Bailando” incorporated synthesizers and electric guitars in a contemporary exploration of Carnival’s traditional music. His most recent release is last year’s solo project “Minimo Infinito.”

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2-2:55 P.M. SATURDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION 4:35-5:35 P.M. SATURDAY JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE Hailing from Tumaco, Bejuco fuses Afrobeat and traditional music from its

region on the Pacific Coast of Colombia. For more about the band, see the description at 1:30 p.m. Friday (page 29).

ANN SAVOY: ANOTHER HEART

2:15-3:15 P.M. SATURDAY LAGNIAPPE STAGE Guitarist and singer Ann Savoy usually performs at Jazz Fest with one of her family bands, like the Savoy Doucet Band with her husband Marc Savoy and fiddler Michael Doucet. The Savoy Family Band, which includes Marc and sons Joel and Wilson, performed last weekend. Savoy also performs with the all-women band the Magnolia Sisters. Though she grew up in Virginia, many of her roughly 40 albums have been rooted in Cajun sounds.

For this show, she’s performing with the band she assembled to record “Another Heart,” released on Smithsonian Folkways. The album includes originals, like “Cajun Love Song,” which she wrote for Marc, but there also are

covers of the Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Stolen Car” and Joni Mitchell’s “Tin Angel.” The album builds on a project of duets with Linda Ronstadt that the duo released in 2006, and it is more of a folk-rock album. She’ll be joined by guitarist Dirk Powell, who produced the album, son Joel Savoy on fiddle, and more.

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2:50-3:45 P.M. SATURDAY FAIS DO-DO STAGE BeauSoleil celebrated its 50th anniversary in Acadiana in February.

For decades the band has toured and brought Cajun music to the world, bridging the gap between the older bands like the Balfa Brothers and the wave of new bands, like the Lost Bayou Ramblers and Pine Leaf Boys. It will always be the first Cajun band to win a Grammy Award.

The band also has embraced the Creole music of Acadiana, and its 2013 album, “From Bamako to Carencro,”

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1:20-2:05 P.M. SATURDAY FESTIVAL STAGE 3:20-4:25 P.M. SATURDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Cimarron, named for a type of horse, plays joropo, a fast and festive music from the plains straddling Colombia and Venezuela. Its primary instru-

ments are harp, cuatro, bass and maracas, and it can sound like it’s related to Spanish flamenco. Cimarron was formed roughly 25 years ago by harpist and songwriter Carlos Rojas and Ana Veydo. When Rojas died in 2020, Veydo took over leadership of the band.

The group has experimented, pushing the boundaries of the music’s Indigenous and rural roots, at times including Afro-Latin beats. Despite its foundation in rural Colombian traditions, the band has always reached beyond the nation’s borders, and its first album was released on Smithsonian Folkways. Its most recent album, 2019’s “Orinoco,” was nominated for a Best Folk Album Latin Grammy.

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The Bronx native was inspired by her family, which included professional gospel singers. But fans in the jazz tent can expect a bit more of what she’s known for.

The 24-year-old jazz singer released a debut self-titled album in 2021. She followed it up in 2022 with “Linger Awhile,” which won a Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy and helped her also claim the Best New Artist Grammy. At the most recent Grammy Awards, she collected another trophy for Best Vocal Performance for “Tight.”

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Appalachian string music. Her solo career has been more far ranging, and most recently she won a Pulitzer Prize for Music for “Omar,” an opera she wrote with Michael Abels. The opera tells the story of Omar Ibn Said, a Muslim cleric in West Africa who was enslaved and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s.

Giddens currently lives in Ireland, but she is no stranger to Louisiana, having worked with musician and producer Dirk Powell, who performed with her at her last appearance at the Blues Tent. He and New Orleans’ Leyla McCalla — as well as Jason Isbell — contributed to her latest solo release, last year’s “You’re the One.” ““I hope that people just hear American music,” she said about the album. “Blues, jazz, Cajun, country, gospel, and rock — it’s all there.”

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could pursue other projects, but they reunited to release “A Dotted Line” in 2014. They started a Livecreek livestream series in 2021 and have been touring since the release of last year’s “Celebrants.”

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5:40-7 P.M. SATURDAY CONGO SQUARE STAGE Starring on the TV show “Living Single” and romantic comedies and hosting a daytime TV talk show may have obscured the impact Queen Latifah had as a pioneering rapper in the early 1990s.

Albums including 1989’s “All Hail the Queen” and 1993’s “Black Reign” made her the queen of hip-hop.

But she also started acting in the early 1990s, including in Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever,” and appeared on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” with Will Smith in 1991.

Her wider success hasn’t negated anything about her life in hip-hop, though she hasn’t released an album since 2009. She’s doing a handful of concerts this year, and this trip to New Orleans isn’t going to be like “Girls Trip.” But Latifah can handle either with ease.

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5:30-7 P.M. SATURDAY FESTIVAL STAGE For all the attention grabbed by The Rolling Stones, one could have missed that Neil Young is headlining Jazz Fest on Saturday. The Canadian import is no less talented than the British Invasion lads, and at 78, he’s not much younger. He’s not topped the charts nearly as often, but he continued to put out relevant music well into his later years.

With his high strained voice, Young might not seem like a natural for rock fame, but he was a key player in numerous bands, and evolved through several phases, including as the so-called godfather of grunge.

He’s released protest anthems through the decades, from early work with Buffalo Springfield to the Vietnam War protest “Ohio” with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, to the hard rocking and agitated ’80s screed “Rockin’ in the Free World,” to a concept album criticizing agriculture industry giant Monsanto.

Young currently is back on tour with Crazy Horse, for the first time since 2019, and after a few years backed by Lukas Nelson’s Promise of the Real. Over five decades, Young and Crazy Horse released 15 studio albums together, as well as several live recordings, including the landmark 1979 album “Rust Never Sleeps,” which also had studio-recorded tracks. That album is often described as a precursor to grunge and helps explain Young’s collabora-

tions with Pearl Jam members in the 1990s.

Young and Crazy Horse just released “FU##IN’ UP,” a nine-track EP full of re-recordings of their 1990 album, “Ragged Glory.” The album name comes from a song on the earlier album, and many songs were re-recorded with new names.

Besides that project, there’s plenty to choose from just from songs recorded with Crazy Horse, and other work from his more than 45 studio albums. He’s never been hesitant about doing things his own way and was once sued by a record company for delivering music it didn’t think was commercially viable. On stage, he sometimes tours through his hits, and sometimes ignores his best known work, but in the last two decades, he’s only solidified his reputation as a great live performer, regardless of the recording ideas he’s pursued.

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WIMBERLY FAMILY GOSPEL SINGERS 11:15-11:55 A.M. SUNDAY GOSPEL TENT Start the day off right with some high energy holy spirit praise, courtesy of the Wimberly Family Gospel Singers. Founded in New Orleans in 1976, the band has been a regular presence at Jazz Fest, bringing their classic funky, soulful gospel music to the masses for literal generations. The current lineup of the band is led by Eneal Wimberly, who will undoubtedly have the aisles full of dancers Sunday morning.

CONJUNTO TIERRA LINDA 11:20 A.M.-12:10 P.M. SUNDAY JAZZ AND HERITAGE STAGE Founded in 2019 by bassist and singer Gabriel Case, Conjunto Tierra Lindo have become a regular on the local music circuit, playing a mix of salsa, popular Cuban music, mambo and Latin Jazz classics, as well as originals.

The band has become one of the standouts in New Orleans’ growing Latin music scene, putting on fun, energetic shows that always have the dance floor packed.

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DWAYNE DOPSIE AND THE ZYDECO HELLRAISERS 4:05-5 P.M. SUNDAY FAIS DO-DO STAGE The youngest of zydeco legend Rockin’ Dopsie’s eight children, Dwayne stands on his own two feet as a towering figure in zydeco music — both in terms of his musical ability and sheer size. Physically, Dopsie is so big he makes a full-size accordion look like a child’s toy, an impressive feat only outdone by his even more massive stage presence. During his sets, Dopsie never seems to stay still, stalking across the stage — and often through the crowd — with the energy of a tornado. Combined with his infectious crowd work and gregarious nature, Dopsie is a must-see.

STEVE RILEY AND THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS 1:35-2:35 P.M. SUNDAY FAIS DO-DO STAGE Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys return to Jazz Fest Sunday in what is sure to be a one of this year’s standout Cajun music performances. A staple of the south Louisiana music scene for decades, the band has produced 10 records over its decades long career, producing a mix of traditional numbers and originals, largely in Cajun French.

IRMA THOMAS

1:55-3 P.M. SUNDAY FESTIVAL STAGE The Soul Queen of New Orleans may have turned 83 this year, but she’s still putting on a gem of a performance, as her recent French Quarter Fest set proved.

Her voice is as strong as ever, and while she may have slowed down just a touch or two over the years, her magnetic presence and swagger is still captivating audiences more than 60 years into her storied career.

Thomas has already had a busy year, recently finishing work on not one but two new records: the first a gospel record of her own and a second soon-to-bereleased album with Galactic.

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2:05-3:05 P.M. SUNDAY CONGO SQUARE STAGE Based in Bogota, Grupo Niche is a mainstay of the salsa scene, and they’re also a great introduction to the genre for anyone who hasn’t dipped their toes into this Latin style before. Founded in 1978, Grupo Niche plays a classic mix of high energy, upbeat and slower, more romantic styles of salsa, which will definitely keep the crowd moving.

MARIACHI JALISCO

3:10-3:30 P.M. SUNDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION 4:25-5:20 P.M. SUNDAY JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE New Orleans’ Mariachi Jalisco bring the classic mariachi style of Mexican music to Jazz Fest Sunday afternoon.

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11:30 A.M.-12:15 P.M. SUNDAY CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION New Orleans’ La Tran-K Band is made up of members from the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The band plays a variety of Afro-Carribean styles including cumbia, salsa, bachata and merengue. They’ve become a regular sight in the city’s music scene over the years, playing festivals in and around New Orleans as well as regular shows, including several last year with popular DJ C’est Funk at the Rabbit Hole.

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Week 2 With roots in Indigenous and traditional Spanish music, mariachi music remains popular throughout much of Mexico and parts of the United States, and Mariachi Jalisco’s six-piece brand of the genre is as great as an introduction for beginners as it is a treat for fans of mariachi music alike.

THE NEW ORLEANS KLEZMER ALLSTARS 4:10-5 P.M. SUNDAY

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LAGNIAPPE STAGE Formed in 1991, the Klezmer Allstars are something of a supergroup made up of a rotating cast of some of New Orleans’ best musicians. Their recently released record, “Tipish,” features longtime players Ben Ellman, Glenn Hartman, Jonathan Freilich, Aurora Nealand, Doug Garrison, Joe Cabral and Dan Oestreicher, while Stanton Moore and others have also played with the band over the years.

The Allstars fuse classic New Orleans funk and jazz with traditional European Jewish folk music for a high energy unique sound that will have you clapping along, dancing and grinning like a happy fool before you know it.

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FAIS DO-DO STAGE Nepo babies may get a bad name on occasion, but especially in the music business it’s not always been particularly easy for the children of superstars to find their own footing out from under the shadow of their parents.

However, that hasn’t been the case for The Wallflowers’ Jakob Dylan, whose dad Bob is also a singer songwriter you might have heard of.

Launched in 1989, the band has undergone a number of lineup changes, but always with Dylan at its heart. Over its 35-year history, The Wallflowers have carved out an impressive career in indie rock, producing seven full-length studio albums, including their classic sophomore record, “Bringing Down the Horse.” The quadruple platinum record included their iconic “One Headlight,” which took home multiple Grammy awards.

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officially close out this year’s festivities. Andrews, along with his band Orleans Avenue, have been headlining the last day of Jazz Fest for more than a decade, providing a high energy, emphatic exclamation point to two weeks of fun.

Raised in Treme, Andrews began playing trombone practically before he could walk — and even performed at Jazz Fest at the ripe old age of four with blues legend Bo Didley. Since then, he’s been a massive figure in the city’s music scene, starting with his work in iconic brass bands, as the frontman of Orleans Avenue and as a featured artist with Jon Batiste, Juvenile and more.

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1 single “September” which the band is perhaps best known for, and for good reason. The upbeat, beautiful disco anthem quickly came to define the band, and in 2018 it was entered into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry for its historical, cultural and aesthetic importance. The band itself, meanwhile, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.

GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS

5:40 — 7 P.M. SUNDAY BLUES TENT Combining the Chicago blues and straightforward classic rock styles, George Thorogood has been rocking bar rooms, concert halls and festival stages for five decades. He and the Destroyers came to prominence in the ’80s — and defined what it meant to go drinking for a generation — with their renditions of classic blues songs like “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” and “Who Do You Love,” along with originals like “I Drink Alone” and “Bad to the Bone,” Thorogood’s take on Muddy Waters’ iconic “Mannish Boy.” Over his career, Thorogood has produced more than a dozen records and become an icon of rock ‘n’ roll. He will be interviewed at 2:15 p.m. at the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will perform Sunday at Jazz Fest.

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5:40-7 P.M. SUNDAY CONGO SQUARE STAGE Chicago’s Earth, Wind and Fire returns to a familiar spot closing out the Congo Square Stage.

Founded in 1969, Earth, Wind and Fire’s eclectic mix of soul, funk, R&B, disco and other styles has made them one of the most recognizable bands in the world.

The six-time Grammy-winning band came into their own just as disco began, and throughout much of the ’70s and ’80s you couldn’t find a dance floor or roller rink where hits like “Shining Star,” “Boogie Wonderland” and “Fantasy” weren’t in heavy rotation. But it’s their 1978 No.

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Mother of Pearl serves ‘mid-week comfort food’ MOTHER OF PEARL IS A GEM in more ways than one.

Chef Walker Geoffray and his wife and partner Katie Morris are behind the restaurant, a passion project that grew out of their catering business, Black pearl, which they started in 2017. Geoffray is a native son, not just to New Orleans, but to the riverbend neighborhood where the business is based. The location has been a few different restaurants, most recently Carrollton Market.

“I’ve been ratting around this neighborhood my whole life,” he says.

His parents still run the frame shop on Oak Street that he grew up around as a kid. And now he and Morris live on Jeannette, just a few blocks from the restaurant, which also serves as a catering commissary kitchen. It is this sense of place that informs Mother of pearl’s mission.

“The idea was to have something in the neighborhood for the neighborhood,” he says. “We have so many great restaurants that keep the New Orleans tradition alive. I wanted to offer something different.”

The couple quietly opened the restaurant about a year ago, sharing information through their Instagram account. Because of Black pearl’s busy weekend catering schedule, Mother of pearl is only open Wednesday through Friday.

The space has modern, clean lines, an open kitchen and funky touches like the sassy monkey wallpaper behind the bar. Seating is limited to 35 guests, and there’s a sense that this place is for those in the know.

Geoffray sees the restaurant as a chance to flex culinary muscles not often used for catered events.

“A lot of destination wedding couples want traditional New Orleans food to be part of their menu,” the chef says. “We work within that box, with our own style, but the restaurant allows us to push those boundaries.”

The latest seasonal menu is crowded with one craveable dish after another. Chicken livers are dredged in cornmeal and fried,

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glazed with a spicy pepper jelly and accented with boiled peanut cream.

There are collard greens stuffed with andouille with a tomato sambal, and diced avocado is topped with lemon-horseradish dressing. A prime brisket burger is topped with Asiago and Dijon aioli and served with twice-cooked fries.

The crawfish boil gnocchi seems like a dish somebody would have thought about ages ago. potato gnocchi are topped with a creamy andouille and crawfish sauce studded with mushrooms and pearl onions, with allspice-pickled carrots on the side.

“There are all the elements of a boil on the plate, just delivered in a different way,” Geoffray says.

Castelvetrano olives are paired with artichokes and chicken, with sauteed fingerlings on the side.

The lemon pesto Gulf fish is the priciest dish on the menu at $26, and it is crusted with fennel and coriander and served with fermented tomato risotto and pickled squash.

Appetizers are in the $8-$16 range, with larger plates priced from $15 to $26.

There is a full bar and an evolving wine list with an emphasis on smaller producers.

Although he isn’t formally trained, Geoffray learned his craft on the job, working in catering kitchens for eight years before opening his own business. While he learned from many chefs along the way, he says working with larkin Selman, the former chef and owner at Gautreau’s who has his own catering service, taught him the most.

“I consider him my mentor,” Geoffray says.

Weddings are a big part of the couple’s business. Morris handles

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The crawfish sacks at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival are delicious, but also bedeviling to produce, and for many years Erin Merrick held such a grudge at their labor-intensive nature that she swore off them. Eventually though, delicious proved out.

“I stopped eating them for decades, I just got so frustrated,” she says. “But I came back. I had to.”

The crawfish sack is a dollop of highly seasoned crawfish tails bundled into a crepe and folded up like a beggar’s purse, tied at the top with a ribbon-thin leek strand, then fried.

Each one is assembled by hand, and patton’s Caterers, the family-run business in Slidell started by Merrick’s grandparents, will make roughly 25,000 of them for Jazz Fest this year.

Biting in is instant bliss. But the ability to field such a dish in Jazz Fest-sized quantities from outdoor kitchens, serve them at the pace of grab-and-go and maintain the consistency that Jazz Fest

Walker Geoffray and Katie Morris opened Mother of Pearl Restaurant.

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most of the client contact and turnkey customer service, while Geoffray manages the culinary side of things.

“We get couples that want New Orleans and Vietnamese food, or Indian or Chinese,” he says.

For one event, he paired crab boil braised turkey necks with a Kashmiri rajma curry, with southern-style cornbread on the side. Some of the dishes the chef and his team have created at weddings show up at Mother of pearl.

“It’s taking something familiar and giving it a new dimension,” he says.

“We aren’t going for fine dining. We want to serve good mid-week comfort food, something folks aren’t cooking at home. I’m not trying to get on top 10 lists, but I do want to be top of mind for my neighbors.”

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fans expect and Jazz Fest producers demand is the result of systems developed over the years, and an all-out effort at festival time.

“We have it down to a science, though like most good science, it’s always evolving,” Merrick says. “This isn’t like rolling up into a kitchen and getting to work. We have to create all that.”

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Staffing up, lining up suppliers, balancing ever-changing prices on the supply end for the highly-personal expectations on the demand side and sometimes managing other businesses that must continue concurrently — it all goes into the multifaceted matrix behind this festival menu.

Veteran vendors say Jazz Fest’s in-house food department sets the stage with infrastructure, procedures and food safety checks developed around the particular needs of feeding hundreds of thousands of people outdoors over the course of two long weekends.

“It’s as much a food festival as it is a music festival: people are coming there to eat, and it’s not funnel cakes and corn dogs. It’s totally different from other festivals,” says chef pat Gallagher, whose own stand serves restaurant-worthy pecan catfish meuniere and crabcakes with smoked tomato tartar sauce.

“The food department holds us to a standard, and in the long run, they make our job easier because you know what the expectations are,” Gallagher says.

But execution falls to the vendors themselves, and they have evolved their own processes, based on their dishes, the dynamics of their businesses and, often, the families behind them.

The Crawfish Monica booth at Jazz Fest has six lines, each leading to its one namesake dish, a bowl of rotini pasta and crawfish tails in a spicy cream sauce.

Before the first one is served though, the Crawfish Monica crew model exactly how they’ll set up all their gear and equipment for a dry run at a storage yard in industrial Elmwood.

Every piece is assembled as if ready for action; then it’s taken right back down again and loaded into trucks where it will be assembled for real at the Fair Grounds.

Even after four decades of serving Crawfish Monica to the Jazz Fest crowds, this exercise is repeated each year, checking for what might be missing or what could work better.

“Jazz Fest starts for us in November,” says pierre “pete” Hilzim, who with his wife Monica Davidson runs the company behind Crawfish Monica. “you go through your equipment, that’s first, and by January we’re checking on vendors, placing food orders. you’re building a restaurant you’ll only have for a few days a year, and on that first day of the fest you go in and turn it on, and it has to work.”

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Caluda’s is best known around New Orleans for king cakes, but as soon as Carnival season ends owner John Caluda’s attention switches over to his Jazz Fest standards, including white chocolate bread pudding and his signature crawfish strudel, a savory pastry. He’ll spend around $40,000 to produce that dish alone, money he must front long before the festival gates open.

“There’s a financial risk going in, because you have to pay for everything ahead, and you’re gauging the crowds, what the lineup will do, and you don’t know what the weather will do,” Caluda says.

There’s also the balancing act of keeping dishes available through the entire span of Jazz Fest, which is much longer than most festivals (eight days this year), without being stuck with too much extra by the end.

“We have spreadsheets and to-do lists that I look at every day for months to stay on target for this,” Caluda says.

Ba Mien, the local Vietnamese restaurant with a booth at the Heritage Square area at Jazz Fest, offers cool and refreshing fresh rice paper spring rolls. They must be made daily, and that means an early wake up call.

“We’re at the restaurant at 4 a.m. every day of the fest to make those,” says Amanda Nguyen, whose parents Mai and Truong Nguyen run the New Orleans East restaurant.

Nguyen grew up working in that restaurant, and also at the family’s Jazz Fest booth. She lives in New Jersey now, but each year she schedules time to come back and pitch in for an all-out family effort.

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by Will Coviello AS PRINCIPAL CHIEF, LORA ANN CHAISSON REPRESENTS THE UNITED HOUMA NATION locally and internation-

ally. She was born in Houma and now lives in pointe-au-Chien, areas heavily damaged by Hurricane Ida in 2021. She just returned from making a presentation in New york at the United Nations’ permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

And she’s represented the tribe at Jazz Fest, both as a volunteer and officially, for nearly four decades. She does a food demonstration at the Food Heritage stage every year and also does craft demonstrations in the Folklife Village.

For information about the United Houma Nation, visit unitedhoumanation.org. For info about cultural happenings at Jazz Fest, see nojazzfest.com.

How did you get involved at Jazz Fest?

LORA ANN CHAISSON: I did volunteer work at first, and helping out at the Kids’ Tent. At one time, people used to drop their kids off at the kids area. It’s totally different now. We used to make a palmetto house. My cousin Grayhawk (perkins) was one of the managers. He’s a musician and a storyteller for our tribe. We built a palmetto hut and kids helped. I used to bring my boys there.

We had always tried to get a Native American Village in Jazz Fest. We were like, “We’re first people. New Orleans was our territory. let’s have something.” We were able to get that.

We had a stage and big-time tribal musicians and local tribal artists. We had demonstrations of powwows. It was in a circle. We had the food booth there. We did Indian tacos and fry bread and the traditional foods. Then Hurricane Katrina hit, and it was taken away. After Katrina, they switched it to the area where we are now.

How did you get involved in the food side of the festival?

C: I started demonstrating food at the Zatarain’s Stage when it was outside.

They did away with that. After Covid, that never came back.

Ms. loretta Oden is the oldest Native American chef. She is still working. She’s from the Citizen potawatomi Nation.

She still cooks and runs the restaurant 39 Tribes in the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City.

She came to Jazz Fest. She had done a cooking series on pBS (“Seasoned with Spirit: A Native Cook’s Journey”).

She and I were on one of the first episodes together. So Jazz Fest invited her to come do a demo of traditional foods. We came in together. I did alligator sauce piquante. That’s how I started.

Every year, I started doing a food demonstration. I would do one of our traditional dishes. I did traditional file gumbo.

A gumbo without a roux. That’s indigenous to our people.

We use the leaves of sassafras trees. In August, we start harvesting and drying it and then grinding it. That’s what makes it thick.

I do corn maque choux. I do the three sisters dish. That’s corn, beans and squash. It’s one of the oldest dishes in the U.S. as far as Indigenous people. Or I would do something with blackberries or pumpkin. That’s all Indigenous foods. loretta and I do a lot of workshops on Indigenous foods.

It’s why I love chef John Folse. He always makes sure that contributions to New Orleans food start off with native foods. He always makes sure that’s recognized.

Sweet potato, tomatoes and chocolate are all Indigenous foods.

Strawberries, sunflowers and sunflower oil, corn, beans. All these things are Indigenous.

All tribal people do fry bread.

Throughout the United States they all do fry bread. It’s not a traditional traditional dish. The government imposed the flour on us. So the tribal people started creating these breads.

What dish are you demonstrating?

C: I am taking fry bread and sweet potato and using the same ingredients I use when I make sweet potato pie. I take those ingredients and mix it with the fry bread, and make a dough and wrap it around the strawberry and fry it. Nothing healthy, but it’s good.

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This year is a little different. It’s like a chef competition. I guess they’ve been watching a lot of Food Network.

Usually, I have to cook for 100 people.

I am bringing some sugarcane and some honey to use as a topping.

That dish was created after Hurricane Ida. We lost everything. We didn’t have prep space. We had to use only what we had at the time. Our tribe was devastated — all of our tribal communities in Houma, pointe-au-Chien, Dulac, lafourche. We had to create things on the spot. That’s something we created for Jazz Fest. The tribe sells that at the booth at Jazz Fest. The booth is our biggest tribal fundraising for the year.

We make the fry bread on the spot and do demonstrations. It’s popping hot.

The Indian taco is fry bread with ground beef, lettuce, tomatoes and cheese and a homemade sauce. I do mine a little different than they do. I use tomato, onions, cilantro and salt and pepper. It’s like a salsa. But the tribe does more like a picante sauce.

The first weekend, I’ll be there Thursday for the demonstration. The second weekend, I’ll be there every day.

I am doing a basket-weaving demonstration. I am a traditional weaver. I use palmetto leaves. I am looking forward to it. I have been traveling. Basket weaving is my therapy.

Coppola Prosecco

This is a fantastic Prosecco. The nose is fun with floral notes mingling with a distinct fruity vibe. The bubbles are calm yet persistent, which allows for the aromas from the nose to carry onto the palate with an added pop of sugar. This one’s a crowd-pleaser for sure.

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Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; angelobrocatoicecream. com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, biscotti, fig cookies, tiramisu, macaroons and more. lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $ Annunciation — 1016 Annunciation St., (504) 568-0245; annunciationrestaurant. com — Gulf Drum yvonne is served with brown butter sauce with mushrooms and artichoke hearts. reservations recommended. Dinner Thu.-Mon. $$$ Bamboula’s — 514 Frenchmen St.; bamboulasmusic.com — The live music venue’s kitchen offers a menu of traditional and creative Creole dishes, such as Creole crawfish crepes with goat cheese and chardonnay sauce. reservations accepted. lunch, dinner and late-night daily. $$ The Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar — 118 Harbor View Court, Slidell, (985) 315-7001; 7900 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 284-2898; thebluecrabnola.com — Basin barbecue shrimp are served over cheese grits with a cheese biscuit. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. lakeview: lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Slidell: lunch Wed.-Fri., dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. $$ Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 581-3866; broussards.com — rainbow trout amandine is served with tasso and corn macque choux and Creole meuniere sauce. reservations recommended. Outdoor seating available.

Dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$ Cafe Normandie — Higgins Hotel, 480 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higginshotelnola.com/dining — The menu combines classic French dishes and louisiana items like crab beignets with herb aioli. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. $$ The Commissary — 634 Orange St., (504) 274-1850; thecommissarynola.com — A smoked turkey sandwich is served with bacon, tomato jam, herbed cream cheese, arugula and herb vinaigrette on honey oat bread. No reservations. Outdoor seating available. lunch Tue.-Sat. $$ Curio — 301 Royal St., (504) 717-4198; curionola.com — The creative Creole menu includes blackened Gulf shrimp served with chicken and andouille jambalaya. reservations accepted. lunch and dinner daily. $$ Dahla — 611 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 766-6602; dahlarestaurant.com — The menu includes popular Thai dishes like pad thai, drunken noodles, curries and fried rice. Crispy skinned duck basil is prepared with vegetables and Thai basil. Delivery available. reservations accepted. lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. $$ Desire Oyster Bar — Royal Sonesta New Orleans, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 586-0300; sonesta.com/desireoysterbar — A menu full of Gulf seafood includes char-grilled oysters topped with parmesan and herbs. reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; bourbonhouse. com — There’s a seafood raw bar and dishes like redfish with lemon buerre blanc. reservations accepted. lunch and dinner daily. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com — A 6-ounce filet mignon is

$ — average dinner entrée under $10 $$ — $11-$20 $$$ — $20-up served with fried oysters, creamed spinach, potatoes and bearnaise. reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$ El Pavo Real — 4401 S. Broad Ave., (504) 266-2022; elpavorealnola.com — The menu includes tacos, enchiladas and sauteed Gulf fish topped with tomatoes, olives, onion and capers, served with rice and string beans.

Outdoor seating available. No reservations. lunch and early dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 569-0000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-9950; 8140 Oak St., (504) 897-4800; juansflyingburrito.com — The Flying Burrito includes steak, shrimp, chicken, cheddar jack cheese, black beans, rice, guacamole and salsa. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; katiesinmidcity.com — The eclectic menu includes a Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, ham, cheese and pickles. Delivery available. reservations accepted for large parties. lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $$ Kilroy’s Bar — Higgins Hotel, 480 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higginshotelnola.com/dining — The bar menu includes sandwiches, salads and flatbreads, including one topped with peach, prosciutto, stracciatella cheese, arugula and pecans. No reservations. Dinner Wed.-Sat. $$ LegacyKitchen’sCraftTavern— 700 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 613-2350; legacykitchen.com — The menu includes oysters, flatbreads, burgers, sandwiches, salads and a NOlA Style Grits Bowl topped with bacon, cheddar and a poached egg. reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Legacy Kitchen Steak & Chop — 91 Westbank Expressway, Gretna, (504) 513-2606; legacykitchen.com — The menu includes filets mignons and bone-in rib-eyes, as well as burgers, salads and seafood dishes. reservations accepted. Outdoor seating available. lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. $$ Luzianne Cafe — 481 Girod St., (504) 2651972; luziannecafe.com — Cajun Sunshine Beignets are stuffed with eggs, bacon, cheese and hot sauce. No reservations. Delivery available. Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; mikimotosushi.com — The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. The menu also has noodle dishes, teriyaki and more. reservations accepted. Delivery available. lunch Sun.Fri., dinner daily. $$ Mosca’s — 4137 Highway 90 West, Westwego, (504) 436-8950; moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery serves Italian dishes and specialties including chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca. reservations accepted. Dinner Wed.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Mother’s Restaurant — 401 Poydras St., (504) 523-9656; mothersrestaurant.net — This counter-service spot serves po-boys, jambalaya, crawfish etouffee, red beans and rice and more. Delivery available. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ New Orleans Hamburger & Seafood Co. — 817 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 837-8580; 1005 S. Clearview Parkway, Jefferson, (504) 734-1122; 2515 B Manhattan

Blvd., Harvey, (504) 684-6050; 4141 St. Charles Ave., (504) 247-9753; 6920 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 455-1272; nohsc.com — The menu of burgers, salads and Creole dishes includes thin-fried Catfish lafitte over rice pilaf. Delivery available. lunch and dinner daily. $$ Neyow’s Creole Cafe — 3332 Bienville St., (504) 827-5474; neyows.com — The menu includes red beans with fried chicken or pork chops, as well as seafood platters, po-boys, grilled oysters, salads and more. No reservations. lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Nice Guys Bar & Grill — 7910 Earhart Blvd., (504) 302-2404; niceguysbarandgrillnola. com — Char-grilled oysters are topped with cheese. The menu also includes wings, quesadillas, burgers, salads, seafood pasta and more. No reservations. lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$ The Original Italian Pie — 3629 Prytania St., (504) 766-8912; theoriginalitalianpieuptown.com — The Italian pie combo includes pepperoni, Italian sausage, ground beef, mushrooms, onions, bell pepper, black olives, mozzarella and house-made tomato sauce. No reservations. Dinner and latenight Tue.-Sat. $$ Orleans Grapevine Wine Bar & Bistro — 720 Orleans Ave., (504) 523-1930; orleansgrapevine.com — The wine bar’s menu includes Creole pasta with shrimp and andouille in tomato cream sauce. reservations accepted for large parties. Outdoor seating available.

Dinner Thu.-Sun. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; palacecafe.com — The contemporary Creole menu includes crabmeat cheesecake with mushrooms and Creole meuniere sauce.

Outdoor seating available. reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Fri., dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. $$$ Parish Grill — 4650 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite 100, Metairie, (504) 345-2878; parishgrill.com — The menu includes burgers, sandwiches, pizza and sauteed andouille with fig dip, blue cheese and toast points. reservations accepted. lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. $$ Peacock Room — Kimpton Hotel Fontenot, 501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 324-3073; peacockroomnola.com — Black lentil vadouvan curry comes with roasted tomatoes, mushrooms and basmati rice. reservations accepted. Dinner Wed.-Mon., brunch Sun. $$ Rosie’s on the Roof — Higgins Hotel, 480 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941;

Juan’s Flying Burrito (515 Baronne St., 504-529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., 504-5690000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., 504-486-9950; 8140 Oak St., 504-897-4800; juansflyingburrito.com) serves a variety of burritos and Mexican favorites.

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higginshotelnola.com/dining — The rooftop bar has a menu of sandwiches, burgers and small plates. No reservations. Dinner daily. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; tableaufrenchquarter.com — pasta bouillabaisse features squid ink mafaldine, littleneck clams, Gulf shrimp, squid, seafood broth, rouille and herbed breadcrumbs. Outdoor seating available. reservations recommended. Dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Thu.-Sun. $$$ Tacklebox — 817 Common St., (504) 8271651; legacykitchen.com — The menu includes oysters, and dishes like redfish St. Charles with garlic-herb butter, asparagus, mushrooms and crawfish cornbread. reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 733-3803; 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 70488 Highway 21, Covington, (985) 234-9420; theospizza.com — A Marilynn pota Supreme pie is topped with mozzarella, pepperoni, sausage, hamburger, mushrooms, bell peppers and onions. There also are salads, sandwiches and more. Delivery available. lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 1433 St. Charles Ave., (504) 354-1342; 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; titoscevichepisco.com — peruvian lomo saltado features sauteed beef, onions, tomatoes, soy sauce and pisco, served with potatoes and rice. Outdoor seating available on Magazine Street. Delivery available. reservations accepted. lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$ The Vintage — 3121 Magazine St., (504) 324-7144; thevintagenola.com — The menu includes beignets, flatbreads and a veggie sandwich with avocado, onions, arugula, red pepper and pepper jack cheese. No reservations. Delivery and outdoor seating available.

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‘Road House’ Reboot

The “Road House” reboot starring Jake Gyllenhaal has a lot of Gulf Coast ties.

It takes place in Florida and features prominent louisiana artists, who not only provide much of the soundtrack for the film, but also have cameos performing in the gritty beachside bar where all the famous brawling scenes go down. Those musicians, including C.C. Adcock (who wrote the movie’s theme song), Tommy Mclain, Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph and rockin’ Dopsie Jr. will be re-enacting their performances at BJ’s lounge on Wednesday, May 1 at 6 p.m., before a screening of the film at 8 p.m.

Members of the Krewe of Dreux will also be on-site, grilling steaks. For more information visit @bjslounge on Instagram.

‘Rejuvenation’ celebration

As the late Bunny Matthews put it, “With ‘Rejuvenation,’ the Meters delivered their definitive work: a perfect album, the only perfect New Orleans album ever recorded.” The Meters’ essential fifth album, again produced

by Allen Toussaint, turns 50 this year, and Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk will be joined by George porter Jr., leo Nocentelli and Cyril Neville for a celebration of the album and the iconic New Orleans funk band. The show starts at 10 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at the Civic Theatre. Tickets are still available for $220 via ticketmaster.com.

JJ Grey & Mofro

Soulful Southern rock band JJ Grey & Mofro earlier this year released “Olustee,” its first album in nine years.

The band rolls through the Saenger Theatre at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 2, with blues rocker Samantha Fish. Tickets start at $41.50 via saengernola.com.

Bayou Rendezvous

The mini-festival at the Howlin’ Wolf has two stages of music going all night. The main stage will feature The rumble; The New Orleans AllStars, with Gov’t Mule’s Kevin Scott, Johnny Vidacovich, John “papa” Gros, papa Mali and more; Cool Cool Cool; and Adam Deitch playing a late-night dance party set. The Den stage includes performances by Good Enough for Good Times (featuring members of Galactic); robert Walter, Simon lott, reed Mathis and Will Bernard; Wil Blades, Ari Teitel and Jamison ross; and Sgt. Splendor, a collab between Kate Vargas and Eric McFadden with Fishbone’s Norwood Fisher, Terence Higgens of Dirty Dozen and guest drummer Stephen

perkins of Jane’s Addiction. Music starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $49.50 via thehowlinwolf.com.

‘Sister Act’

In the musical based on the 1992 movie, Deloris Van Cartier is a nightclub singer who witnesses a crime and has to hide out in a convent. Her big personality isn’t an easy fit, but music brings the sisters together in the comedy. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4, and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5, and continuing May 10-19 at rivertown Theaters for the performing Arts. Tickets $39-$53 via rivertowntheaters.com.

Have a Great Jazz Fest

Along with playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Charlie Gabriel during Jazz Fest, guitarist and positivity spreader Joshua Starkman hosts two festival editions of his Have a Great Day show. He’ll be joined by guest musicians for interviews and performances. Catch the next one at 5 p.m.

Wednesday, May 1, at the Ace Hotel’s Alto bar. The show is free. Find more info at acehotel.com/new-orleans.

Robin Barnes and the Fiya Birds

Robin Barnes’ powerful voice is equally at home in jazz, soul, funk — really, any genre she’d want to tackle.

At the Hotel peter & paul, she’ll dig into the soul aspects of her music with her band the Fiya Birds. The music starts at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 30. Tickets are $25 via eventbrite.com.

WWOZ Piano Night

The annual between-Jazz-Fest-weekends event gathers pianists from far and wide for a six-hour marathon fundraising concert for community radio station WWOZ. The lineup includes little Feat’s Bill payne, Marcia Ball, Jon Cleary, Oscar rossignoli, lilli lewis, Tom McDermott, Jesse McBride, Victor Campbell, larry Sieberth, Joe Krown and many more. The show starts at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 29, at House of Blues. Find ticket and streaming information at wwoz.org.

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MONDAY 29 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Double Bird ft. peter Harris, Ashlin parker, Jason Marsalis, and ryan Hanseler, 8 pm BLUE NILE — Toubab Krewe, 11 pm BOURBON O BAR — Kenny Brown Duo, 4 pm CAFÉ ISTANBUL — James Singleton's Malabar, 7 pm; Judith Owen & The JO Big Band, 8 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Jump Hounds, 9 pm; Meschiya lake and the Machetes, 10 pm DEW DROP INN — Bobby rush, 7 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Matinee All Star Band, 1 pm; lee Floyd And Thunderbolt Trio, 5 pm; richard Scott and Friends, 8 pm THE RABBIT HOLE — Zita, special guest, 8 pm THE SPOTTED CAT MUSIC CLUB — Jenavieve Cooke + the Winding Boys, 2 pm; Dominick Grillo + the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6 pm; Michael Watsonc and the Alchemy, 9:30 pm TIPITINA'S — Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Galactic, Sun ra Arkestra, 8 pm

TUESDAY 30 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — peter Harris and Friends ft. pedro Segundo, Victor Campbell, and rex Gregory, 8 pm BJ'S LOUNGE BYWATER — Meschiya lake, Scully, Ben Bruisey, lily Fein, James Course, and Howie Huber, 9 pm BLUE NILE — Wil Blades, Donald Harrison Jr, Herlin riley, Will Bernard, 10 pm BOURBON O BAR — Dr. Zach, 4 pm; Ingrid luccia, 8 pm CAFÉISTANBUL — Hot 8 Brass Band, 8 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Gregg Hill , 6 pm; Kid Chocolate and the Free p.O.C., 9 pm DEW DROP INN — Joy Clark, 8 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — richard "piano" Scott, 1 pm; Colin Myers Band, 5 pm; Fritzels All Star Band w/Jamil Sharif, 8 pm HOTEL PETER & PAUL — robin Barnes & The Fiyabirds, 8 pm THE RABBIT HOLE — rebirth Brass Band, 7 pm THE SPOTTED CAT MUSIC CLUB — Chris Christy Band, 2 pm; The little Big Horns,

6 pm; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 9:30 pm TIPITINA'S — Dragon Smoke feat. Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore, Eric lindell & robert Mercurio, Sir Woman, 9 pm

WEDNESDAY 1 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Firm roots ft. peter Harris, Derek Douget, Dwight Fitch, Jr., and the New Orleans Groovemaster, 8 pm BLUE NILE — Game of Bones, 11 pm BLUE NILE BALCONY ROOM — New Breed Brass Band, 9:30 pm BOURBON O BAR — Gary Brown, 4 pm; Serabee, 8 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Tin Men, 6 pm; The Coven, 9 pm; roosevelt Collier's Jimi Meets Funk, 11:59 pm MUSIC BOX VILLAGE — ÌFÉ, Weedie Braimah and the Hands of Time, 7 pm SANTOS — Sweeping promises, 9 pm THE SPOTTED CAT MUSIC CLUB — Chris Christy Band, 2 pm; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6 pm; Martin peters and the party, 9:30 pm

THURSDAY 2 BAMBOULAS— Miss Sigrid and the Zig Zags, 1:15 pm; Christina Kaminis and The Mix, 5:30 pm; Wolfe John's Blues Band, 9 pm BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Cryptic ft. peter Harris, Jamison ross, ricardo pascal, and virtuoso negro, 8 pm BJ'S LOUNGE BYWATER — The Shitty Stones, 9 pm BLUE NILE — Krasno Moore project, 11 pm; Funk you, 12 am BLUE NILE BALCONY ROOM — Where y’At Brass Band, 7 pm; Flow Tribe, 11 pm BOURBON O BAR — Kimchisoop, 4 pm; Tiffany Hall And The Jazz Masters, 4 pm CAFÉ ISTANBUL — Mathis, Martin & Haas feat. George porter Jr., 11:45 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Meschiya lake and the little Big Horns, 6 pm; Eric lindell (two shows), 10 pm DEW DROP INN — Erica Falls & Friends, 8:30 pm HOLY DIVER NOLA — Silent Solace, Knife Kickers, F.I.T.H. and Drab, 9 pm HOWLIN' WOLF — Ali Angel, Chloe Marie, A Strange Bird, DJ Warm Advice, 8 pm ORPHEUM THEATER — Big Freedia and the lpO, 8 pm PEACOCK ROOM, HOTEL FONTENOT — Da lovebirds with robin Barnes and pat Casey , 8 pm SANTOS — Night Club with rosegarden Funeral party and DJ JpEG, 9 pm THE HISTORIC BK HOUSE & GARDENS — Marcia Ball, 6 pm THE JOY THEATER — leftover Salmon, 9 pm

THE SPOTTED CAT MUSIC CLUB — Chris Christy Band, 2 pm; Jenavieve Cooke + the Winding Boys, 6 pm; Jumbo Shrimp Jazz Band, 10 pm TIPITINA'S — North Mississippi Allstars, Magnolia Boulevard, 9 pm; Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, 11:59 pm

FRIDAY 3 BAMBOULAS — Stephen Brashear Band, 11 am; Felipe Antonio Quinteto, 2:15 pm; les Getrex and Creole Cooking, 6:30 pm; Bettis and 3rd Degree Brass Band , 10 pm BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — yyrp ft. peter Harris, John Michael Bradford, John Maestas, Joe Ashlar, and peter Varnado, 8 pm BJ'S LOUNGE BYWATER — little Freddie King, 9 pm BLUE NILE — Kermit ruffins & the BBQ Swingers, 11 pm; Marco Benevento, 11:59 pm BLUE NILE BALCONY ROOM — Blaque Dynamite, 11 pm; Xavier lynn ft. robert ‘Sput’ Searight, DJ raymond and D’Vibes, 11:59 pm BOURBON O BAR — Ellen Smith & April Spain, 4 pm; Jai reed, 8 pm BUFFA'S BAR & RESTAURANT — Cole Williams, 8 pm CAFÉ ISTANBUL — Axial Tilt: Grateful Dead Celebration, 10 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Mia Borders, 6 pm; low End Theory players, 11:59 pm DEW DROP INN — partners-N-Crime, 79ers Gang, 10 pm HOWLIN'WOLF —Bayourendezvous,9pm NEW MARIGNY THEATRE — roland Guerin , 8 pm NOLA BREWING TAPROOM — Sunpie & The louisiana Sunspots, 8 pm SMOOTHIE KING CENTER — Master p Birthday Bash, 8 pm THE JOY THEATER — lettuce, 8 pm THE RABBIT HOLE — rebirth Brass + Dj Kelly Green, 8 pm; pat Mahoney, Shit robot , 11 pm THE SPOTTED CAT MUSIC CLUB — paradise Jazz Band, 2 pm; New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings, 6 pm; Big Fun Brass Band, 10 pm

SATURDAY 4 BAMBOULAS — The Jaywalkers, 11 am; Boardwalker and the 3 Finger Swingers, 2:15 pm; Johnny Mastro Blues, 6:30 pm; paggy prine and Southern Soul, 10 pm BJ'S LOUNGE BYWATER — Corey ledet, Sabine and leyla McCalla and louis Michot, 9 pm BLUE NILE — George Brown Band, 7 pm; Big Sam's Funky Nation, 11 pm; Karina rykman, 11:59 pm BLUE NILE BALCONY ROOM — Nikki

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SUNDAY 5 BAMBOULAS — youse, 1:15 pm; The Villians, 5:30 pm; Ed Wills Blues 4 Sale, 9 pm; Aaron levinson and Friends, 10:30 am BLUE NILE — Street legends Brass Band, 7 pm; The Adam Deitch Quartet, 11 pm BOURBON O BAR — Kenny Brown & the KB Express, 8 pm CAFÉ ISTANBUL — Terence Higgins, 8 pm; Bonerama, 11 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Treme Brass Band, 2:30 pm; palmetto Bug Stompers, 6 pm; Soul Brass Band, 9 pm DEW DROP INN — Steve lands, 9 pm HAPPYLAND THEATER — The rites of rain - Justin Vittitow, Tristan Gianola, Stephen Menold, 8 pm THE RABBIT HOLE — Santero and El Dusty, 7 pm THE SPOTTED CAT MUSIC CLUB — Jelly roll Stompers, 2 pm; Aurora Nealand and the reed Minders, 6 pm; pat Casey and the New Sounds, 9 pm

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LAST SPRING AND SUMMER, PHILADELPHIA-BASED SKA PUNK BAND

Catbite hit the road for a tour with their Bad Time records labelmates We Are the Union and Kill lincoln. Their June stop in New Orleans happened to coincide with Community records’ big anniversary block party at Tipitina’s, and local ska punk bands Bad Operation and Joystick hopped on the tour for a few dates.

A lot of audio and video was captured on the Bad Time records tour, and late last year the label released the live album “This is New Tone” — a chant led by Bad Operation’s Dominic Minix kicks things off. Featuring Catbite, Bad Operation, We Are the Union, Kill lincoln, JEr, J. Navarro & the Traitors, Omnigone and more, it’s an impressive compilation (a documentary also is coming this year) that captures a key community in the resurgent U.S. ska scene. And as one of the first bands signed to Bad Time records, Catbite has been front row to that resurgence.

Ska “is in a good state right now,” says Catbite guitarist Tim Hildebrand.

“I feel like for a while, it was every band for itself, and there wasn’t a sense of community … When we were kind of forced to be in lockdown, while ska was starting to become a little more popular, I think a lot of bands started to collaborate with each other.”

Catbite returns to New Orleans for a show with Bad Operation and punk band Coworkers on Thursday, May 2, at the Broadside.

Hildebrand, singer-keyboardist Brit luna, bassist Ben parry and drummer Chris pires formed Catbite in 2018 and had only played a handful of shows when they recorded their self-titled debut. The album was picked up by Bad Time records, which itself had just been started by Kill lincoln singer-guitarist Mike Sosinski, and Catbite began to build a reputation for its fun, genre-blending take on ska — there’s a lot of punk, power pop and upbeat twotone influences mixed in.

The band made big plans to start touring in 2020, but the world shut down a week before their first road date. So Catbite turned the momentum they had been building toward engaging new listeners on the internet and writing and recording their sophomore album, “Nice One.” Their first real concert back was the release show for it in August 2021.

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regarded. The vinyl version of the album is now on its fourth pressing, and Catbite decided to issue a new deluxe edition with a few new tracks putting country and hardcore spins on the songs.

In early 2021, “Nice One” was finished. But with a few months until the release, Catbite was looking for ways to keep busy. They tossed around some ideas, Hildebrand says, and aimed to record an acoustic version of their debut album. The new recordings, though, started to take on an alt-country vibe and the band leaned into it.

“Catlite” is a complete countrified version of their debut album. And already running with the ideas, the band turned around and recorded a hardcore interpretation, “Catfite.”

“It definitely helped us, number one, stop from losing our minds during the pandemic, but it also helped us think outside of the box and help our creativity,” luna says. “We did that and now we know we could add a little bit of that into the next record if we wanted.”

The success of Catbite’s sound comes from the different musical interests of its members, Hildebrand and luna say. parry is an avid country fan, while pires has played in hardcore bands in the past. The band covers Selena’s “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” on their latest album in a nod to luna’s latine heritage and a thriving latin ska scene.

Catbite is starting work this year on its next record, the band says. While they’re still in the writing stage, they’re excited to build on “Nice One,” luna says.

“I think we found our Catbite sound on the last record,” she says. “We’re taking that and even furthering it on this new record.”

Find Catbite’s music and more at catbite.net. Catbite performs at 10 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at the Broadside.

Tickets are $15 advance via broadsidenola.com and $20 day of the show.

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In loving memory of Sallie, the best kitty ever.

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Though he’s crossed the rainbow bridge, memories of his comical charm linger on. Farewell, dear Frank, may you find endless treats and your favorite shows to watch in doggy heaven. You’ll be dearly missed.

In loving memory of Bingo, our loyal German Shepherd whose intelligence and boundless affection enriched our lives beyond measure.

With his sleek coat and alert eyes, he stood as a steadfast guardian and cherished companion. Bingo wasn’t just a pet; he was family, his playful antics and unwavering loyalty weaving seamlessly into the fabric of our daily lives. His knack for learning new tricks never ceased to amaze us, demonstrating an intelligence that mirrored his deep understanding of our emotions. But it wasn’t just his intellect that endeared him to us; it was his simple pleasures too. Bingo had a sweet tooth unlike any other, his tail wagging furiously at the mere mention of ice cream. Watching him eagerly lap up every last drop brought us immeasurable joy, a reminder of life’s simple pleasures and the love we shared.

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Though he’s crossed the rainbow bridge, his paw prints remain etched upon our hearts. Farewell, dear Bingo, may you roam fields of endless treats and boundless joy in the realms beyond. You’ll forever be missed and cherished.

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