NEW ORLEANS — Organizers have announced the performance lineup for the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, scheduled for April 25-28 and May 2-5 at the Fair Grounds Race Course.
The list includes some of popular music’s most iconic stars, along with annual fest favorites and many members of south Louisiana music royalty.
Artists scheduled to appear at the 2024 Jazz Fest include The Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Chris Stapleton, Neil Young Crazy Horse, The Killers, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Hozier, Jon Batiste, Queen Latifah, Vampire Weekend, Greta Van Fleet, Heart, Widespread Panic, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Bonnie Raitt, Earth, Wind & Fire, Celebrating Jimmy Buffett with the Coral Reefer Band, Fantasia, The Revivalists, The Beach Boys, Big Freedia, Kem, Juvenile with Mannie Fresh, Irma Thomas, Joe Bonamassa, Steel Pulse, Cyril Neville, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Jeffrey Osborne, Rhiannon Giddens, Charles Lloyd and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Other performers include PJ Morton, Galactic feat. Anjelika Jelly Joseph, Terence Blanchard: FLOW, Grupo Niche, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, The Wallflowers, Béla Fleck – My Bluegrass Heart, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Samara Joy, Allison Russell, The Dixie Cups, The Allman Betts Band, Dumpstaphunk, Stephen Marley, The Radiators, Tab Benoit, Anders Osborne, The Soul Rebels, Bomba Estéreo, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Tower of Power, Kenny Barron Trio, The Robert Cray Band, Samantha Fish, Nickel Creek, George Porter Jr., Leo Nocentelli, Zigaboo Modeliste, Donald Harrison Jr., Patrice Rushen, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters, Cowboy Mouth, Sweet Crude, Cimafunk, Kermit Ruffins’ Tribute to Louis Armstrong, Davell Crawford, Rebirth Brass Band, Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses, Marcia Ball, Ronnie Lamarque, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, Dragon Smoke, Amy Helm, Ruthie Foster, James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars, John Boutté, Nicholas Payton, Marc Broussard, Hot 8 Brass Band, Original Pinettes Brass Band, CJ Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Cha Wa, Legacy of Wayne Shorter with Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, Brian Blade and special guest Chris Potter, Oumou Sangaré of Mali, Sonny Landreth, Mokoomba of Zimbabwe, Chiekh Ibra Fam of Senegal, ÌFÉ with special guest GOYO of Colombia, Rich Collins, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Stefon Harris & Blackout, Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon, The Anointed Jackson Sisters, Toronzo Cannon, Selwyn Birchwood, Wanda Rouzan, Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Roy Roger & the Delta Rhythm Kings, Naturally 7, Terrance Simien, Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, Pine Leaf Boys, Zachary Richard, Zulu Go Getters, Original Lady Buckjumpers, and Pigeon Town Ladies Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, 9th Ward Black Hatchet and Golden Sioux Mardi Gras Indians, Don Vappie & Creole Jazz Serenaders, The Roots of Music Marching Crusaders, The Zion Harmonizers, Charlie Gabriel, The Headhunters featuring Bill Summers, Donald Harrison Jr., and Mike Clark, Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band, Treme Brass Band and hundreds more.
Jazz Fest 2024 will celebrate Colombia’s musical and cultural diversity at the Expedia Cultural Exchange Pavilion. 17 bands and a wide variety of artisans from Colombia will perform.
Weekend passes and VIP packages are on sale now at nojazzfest.com. Single day tickets will go on sale in February. All Jazz Fest tickets are subject to additional service fees and handling charges.
“Locals Thursday” will be April 25. Tickets will cost $50 for Louisiana residents.
Shell USA is the Presenting Sponsor of the Festival. Other sponsors are Expedia, Miller Lite, the Louisiana Office of Tourism, First Horizon Bank, Ochsner Health, Morris Bart, Peoples Health, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, New Orleans & Company, Wild Turkey Bourbon, Rockstar Energy Drink, Maui Jim Sunglasses, Coca-Cola, New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund (NOTCF), Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, and WWOZ.
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc. is the nonprofit organization that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The foundation uses the proceeds from the event along with other raised funds for year-round education, economic development and cultural enrichment.
The festival is a co-production of Festival Productions Inc. – New Orleans and AEG Presents. Organizers say it draws nearly half a million fans each year.
