Schedule released for 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival
The 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s schedule cubes, with performance times and stage assignments, are posted online at the festival’s website.
Fans of the festival can now start planning their daily itinerary and making decisions about who they’ll see and who they’ll miss.
The cubes are typically unveiled exactly one month before the festival’s opening day at the Fair Grounds. The 2024 Jazz Fest opens on Thursday, April 25, for the first of its two four-day weekends.
On Tuesday, the festival’s producers held a press conference inside the Fair Grounds grandstand to officially roll out the cubes and reveal other details about the 2024 festival.
That festival will feature the Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Chris Stapleton, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, the Killers, Anderson.Paak & the Free Nationals,
Queen Latifah, Hozier, Earth, Wind & Fire, Vampire Weekend, Fantasia, Greta Van Fleet, Bonnie Raitt, Heart and Widespread Panic, among many others.
Jon Batiste, the Revivalists and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, all of whom have achieved national stardom, are among the hundreds of native New Orleans and Louisiana acts that make up the bulk of the festival lineup.
The 53rd edition of what is officially the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell will celebrate the music and culture of Colombia on both weekends. Colombian musicians, cultural displays, parades and cuisine are part of the expanded programming around the festival’s Cultural Exchange Pavilion.
Jam band Widespread Panic, a veteran of many previous Jazz Fests, is scheduled for the opening day, April 25, as are the Beach Boys and Stephen Marley. That day is this year’s “locals Thursday,” for which Louisiana residents may buy as many as two tickets for $50 apiece, with no additional fees at the gate that day.
Otherwise, at-the-gate tickets are $105 plus fees. Single-day tickets for May 2, aka Rolling Stones Thursday, are sold out, as are all second-weekend multi-day and VIP packages that include May 2.
Second-weekend three-day packages, good for May 3-5, are still available for $270 plus fees at www.nojazzfest.com.
First-weekend four-day passes are also still available, at $320 plus fees.