Jazz Fest
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Jazz Fest Weekend 2 Highlights: Shorty, Stevie, and Snoop
Picking which of Jazz Fest‘s 12 stages to try next presents countless dilemmas. It was no different deciding where to close out the festival’s second weekend, as two generations of New Orleans rhythm kings held court for tens of thousands of fans at opposite ends of the Fair Grounds. Here were the highlights of weekend two. (For weekend one highlights, click here.)
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Jazz Fest Weekend 1 Highlights: Petty, Usher, Nas & Brass
Over the seven days of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, nearly a half million people descend on the city’s Fair Grounds to take in more than 450 performances on 12 stages. Something of a misnomer, Jazz Fest has never been about just jazz, but more loosely includes everything that the freedom of jazz represents: The dozen stages offer everything from touring headliners, jazz legends, and Cajun/zydeco to rap, funk, Americana, and brass bands. No one can be in 12 places at once, so the
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Jazz Fest Weekend 2: ‘Purple Rain’ and Other Tributes in Rainy New Orleans
The mammoth Fair Grounds Race Course where Jazz Fest is held wasn’t just waterlogged – flash flooding had changed its topography into a land of small lakes and new Mississippi River tributaries that were more than knee-deep in some areas. With a full week to work out arrangements after Prince’s untimely passing, tributes to the Prince-ly one were abundant on the second weekend of Jazz Fest.
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All That Jazz Fest: Weekend 1 Highlights
There are probably other reasons the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (presented by Shell) could use a new name. But this reporter believes it needs to better reflect the soul-healing, stress-relieving, musically invigorating powers that this annual cultural pilgrimage has come to represent. While we work on a handle that has a better ring to it than the New Orleans Rejuvenative Music Health Spa, let’s consider this year’s 47th edition. To borrow the title of an oft-covered song at last year
