The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is back for 2022; at the Fairgrounds and on its traditional dates. Jazz Fest director and organizer Quint Davis says this year’s roster of performers has something for everyone.
“It’s got from The Who to Luke Combs. From Lionel Richie to Willie Nelson. From the Foo Fighters to Jimmy Buffett. Stevie Knicks, Billy Strings, Nora Jones…”
There was no 2020 Jazz Fest due to the pandemic, and a planned FALL Jazz Fest for 2021 fell apart amid the Delta covid surge.
Davis says it is back after three years, and this year’s top headliners are The Who, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Buffett, Lionel Richie, Willie Nelson and dozens more. Davis says a number of artists planned their other dates AROUND being at Jazz Fest’s big return…like one superstar in particular,
“Stevie Knicks; when I started talking with them about ‘oh my God, it’s this day, it’s that day’ … they said ‘look, wait a minute. We want to be there. You just wait until you know when it is, and you tell and we’re gonna be there.’ ”
Back to its traditional dates – the last weekend in April and the first weekend in May – Jazz Fest has put reserved special admission packages and weekend pass tickets on sale now. Individual day tickets will go on sale soon. Davis says he is deeply grateful to the dozens of artists who’ve stayed by Jazz fest during its hiatus. He says most of them wouldn’t have it any other way.
NOJazzFest.com for more information on acts and tickets.
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