New Orleans Jazz Fest 2025 gears up for round two at the Fair Grounds The 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival picks back up for its second week Thursday, May 1, through Sunday, May 4.

From Creole to Thai to a good Southern breakfast, here are some of our favorite places that are a less than 10 minute walk from the Fair Grounds.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, takes place from April 24 to May 4 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Because Jazz Fest celebrates the "indigenous music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana," every musical style associated with the city and state such as the "blues, R&B, gospel, Cajun, zydeco ...

NEW ORLEANS — Four weeks out from the first weekend of Jazz Fest, organizers unveiled the highly anticipated cubes and official poster. Jazz Fest 2025 will present 650 performances on 14 stages ...

Jazz fest starts this weekend in New Orleans and one of its headliners is rapper Lil' Wayne who made it to the main stage with the Roots. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival gets a lot of flack for booking artists not exclusively categorized as “jazz,” and this year, there were plenty of online trolls and critics pointing ...

Many cities have rich jazz histories, but none goes back as far as New Orleans. We asked Wendell Pierce, Courtney Bryan and others what song they would play to get a friend to join the party.