This year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has just announced their lineup, building excitement for the coming festival.
Jazz Fest is the annual two-weekend celebration of Jazz music and New Orleans culture.
Jazz Fest is held during the day from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Fairs Grounds Race Course during the last weekend in April and the first in May.
“This spontaneous, momentous scene—this meeting of jazz and heritage—has stood for decades since as a stirring symbol of the authenticity of the celebration that was destined to become a cultural force,” reads the NoJazzFest.com website.
The festival has been around since 1970 and was reportedly founded by the New Orleans Hotel Motel Association. It has since, become a popular festival and has received many honors, including being named the Festival of the Year four times by Pollstar magazine.
The festival is best known for it’s musical guests. Over the years, the festival has hosted many internationally renowned guests, including Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and Ella Fitzgerald.
This year is no different with the likes of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Eagles performing.
Here’s the lineup:
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Eagles
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Foo Fighters
Zac Brown Band
TBA
John Mayer
The Neville Brothers Al Green
Herbie Hancock and his Band
Ne-Yo
My Morning Jacket
Bon Iver Paulina Rubio
Jill Scott
Florence + the Machine
Allen Toussaint
Feist Bunny Wailer
Bonnie Raitt
Irma Thomas
Maze feat. Frankie Beverly Dr. John & the Lower 911
Janelle Monae
Yolanda Adams
Iron & Wine Pete Fountain
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Steel Pulse
Rebirth Brass Band Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Esperanza Spalding
funky Meters Levon Helm Band with special guest Mavis Staples, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Aaron Neville
Steve Earle
Galactic Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s 50th Anniversary Jam Little Anthony & The Imperials
Ani DiFranco
GIVERS Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers
Dianne Reeves Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
Better Than Ezra Carolina Chocolate Drops
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
Bruce Hornsby Dave Koz
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Gomez
The Pedrito Martinez Group Bounce Shake Down feat. Big Freedia, Katey Red, Keedy Black, and DJ Poppa
Israel & New Breed
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Zebra
Amanda Shaw James Cotton “Superharp” Band
Cowboy Mouth
Asleep at the Wheel Papa Grows Funk
David Sanborn and Joey DeFrancesco
Bobby Rush Chuck Leavell & Friends
Ellis Marsalis
Marcia Ball Voice of the Wetlands Allstars
John Boutté
Gary Clark Jr. The Texas Tornados feat. Flaco Jiménez, Augie Myers, and Shawn Sahm Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Band feat. Terence Blanchard
Cheikh Lô
Tab Benoit
Regina Carter’s “Reverse Thread”
Bombino of Niger Glen Hansard
Big Sam’s Funky Nation
Jeremy Davenport
Sarah Jarosz Bonerama
Evelyn Turrentine-Agee
Terri Lyne Carrington’s Mosaic Ruby Wilson’s Tribute to Bessie Smith & Ma Rainey
Wycliffe Gordon Donald Harrison
Lindigo of Reunion Islands feat. Fixi
Sonny Landreth Buckwheat Zydeco
Soul Rebels The Stars of Heaven Jewel Brown & the Heritage Hall Jazz Band Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters
Anders Osborne Honey Island Swamp Band
Theresa Andersson
John Mooney & Bluesiana Eric Lindell
Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet
Pine Leaf Boys James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys Big Chief Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs
Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience Dr. Michael White & the Original Liberty Jazz Band feat. Thais Clark
Banu Gibson Hot 8 Brass Band
George French & the New Orleans Storyville Jazz Band
