Photo Credit: Douglas Mason/New Orleans Jazz Festival
The Scene
When you have a festival that stretches over two weekends, it's going to have a massive lineup, and the New Orleans Jazz Festival is no exception. With 12 stages of music and an alumni list that stretches past 22,000 performers since 1970, Jazz Fest has hosted some of the greatest artists of the last half century.
Festival Poster
2016 Artist Lineup
Beck
My Morning Jacket
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Snoop Dogg
- Stevie Wonder
- Pearl Jam
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Neil Young + Promise of the Real
- Snoop Dogg
- Paul Simon
- Steely Dan
- Beck
- Van Morrison
- Nick Jonas
- Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
- Julio Iglesias
- J. Cole
- Elvis Costello & The Imposters
- Flo Rida
- My Morning Jacket
- Gary Clark Jr.
- Bonnie Raitt
- Maxwell
- Irma Thomas
- Janelle Monáe
- Jonny Lang
- Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter
- Gov’t Mule
- Dr. John & the Nite Trippers
- Tedeschi Trucks Band & Friends
- Arlo Guthrie
- Mavis Staples
- Boz Scaggs
- Ms. Lauryn Hill
- Michael McDonald
- Buddy Guy
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- The Isley Brothers
- Aaron Neville
- Chris Botti
- Grace Potter
- Alpha Blondy
- Elle King
- Galactic
- Brandi Carlile
- Brothers Osborne
- Rhiannon Giddens
- Jon Batiste & Stay Human
- Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk with Art Neville
- Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
- Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
- Better Than Ezra
- Los Lobos perform La Pistola Y El Corazon
- Hurray for the Riff Raff
- Punch Brothers
- Taj Mahal
- Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
- Anders Osborne
- The Lone Bellow
- Kermit Ruffins & the Barbeque Swingers
- Tribute to B.B. King
- Tribute to Allen Toussaint
- John Hammond
- Elvin Bishop
- Mystikal
- Jazmine Sullivan
- CeCe Winans
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Tab Benoit
- Terence Blanchard
- Davell Crawford
- Gregory Porter
- Snarky Puppy
- Rebirth Brass Band
- Big Freedia
- Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen
- Ellis Marsalis
- Arturo Sandoval
- Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings
- Donald Harrison
- The Dirty Dozen
- The Black Lillies
- Dédé Saint-Prix of Martinique
- The Garifuna Collective of Belize
- DeJohnette·Coltrane·Garrison
- Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
- The Soul Rebels
- The Revivalists
- John Boutté
- The Mississippi Mass Choir
- Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-Chas
- Ricky Dillard & New G
- Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers
- Glen David Andrews
- Buckwheat Zydeco
- Naturally 7
- Cyril Neville & SwampFunk
- George Porter
- Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners
- Leo Nocentelli
- Zigaboo Modeliste’s Funk Revue
- Henry Butler & Jambalaya
- Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians
- Imagination Movers
- Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters
- BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet