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Foo Fighters, Chris Stapleton, Neil Young, Rolling Stones to Headline 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

The April 25-28 and May 2-5 event will also host The Killers, Anderson .Paak, Hozier, Jon Batiste, Queen Latifah and more.

The Rolling Stones

Mark Seliger

Mark Seliger

The 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will feature headlining sets from The Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Chris Stapleton, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Killers and Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals.

The eight-day fest that takes place across 14 stages over two weekends — April 25-28 and May 2-5 — at the Fair Grounds Race Course, draws nearly half a million music lovers to a sprawling event that includes some of the biggest names in rock, pop, hip-hop, country, funk and jazz, including the usual compliment of homegrown legends.


Among the other acts slated to perform this year are: 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 and Rhiannon Giddens, and hundreds more.

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This year’s Jazz Fest will also celebrate the music and culture of Colombia at the Expedia Cultural Exchange Pavilion, with 17 bands and a variety of artists sharing the unique sights and sounds from the South American nation, including Colombian salsa, cumbia, champeta, vallenato, chirimia, and currulao. There will also be daily parades honoring Colombia’s vibrant carnival spirit, with attendees getting opportunities to meet Indigenous and Afro-Colombian artisans, purchase their crafts and taste traditional Colombian food and drinks, according to a statement announcing the lineup.

Weekend and VIP packages are available here now, with single day tickets slated to go on sale in February; all tickets are subject to additional service fees and handling charges and an account with AXS is required for purchase. This year’s Jazz Fest will also offer a 4-day GA+ weekend pass for the first time, with access to an exclusive GA+ lounge with private restrooms, a full-service bar and shade. There will be a limited supply of 4-day second weekend passes including admission to the May 2 Rolling Stones set, the group’s only announced 2024 North American festival gig.

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Stapleton, Killers, .Paak, Batiste and Vampire Weekend are the top line acts for the first weekend (April 25-28), with the Stones, Foo Fighters, Young, Hozier and Queen Latifah topping the list for the second weekend (May 2-5). Click here for the full day-by-day lineup.

Check out the 2024 lineup poster below.

This article was originally published by Billboard U.S.

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R. Zee Jackson
Doug McClement

R. Zee Jackson

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Obituaries: Canadian Reggae Star R. Zee Jackson, A&M Promo Exec JP Guilbert, Irish Singer-Songwriter Glen Hansard

This week we also acknowledge the passing of French music DJ and producer Kavinsky.

R. Zee Jackson (also known as Esso Jaxxon) a Jamaican-Canadian reggae vocalist, songwriter and engineer who had a major impact on the Toronto reggae scene, died on July 25, at age 72.

A profile in the Canada Black Music Archives (CBMA) writes that ''R. Zee Jackson was born in Clarendon, Jamaica, where he spent his childhood before migrating to Canada. In 1973 he participated in a cultural exchange program to the United States which would lead him to moving to Canada in 1975. There he would meet reggae producer Oswald Creary of Half Moon Records and Doug McClement of Comfort Sounds Studio.''

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