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
2018 Artist Lineup
Beck
Big Freedia
Cage the Elephant
Calexico
Galactic
Old Crow Medicine Show
Rebirth Brass Band
Sting
- Aerosmith
- Aretha Franklin
- Sting
- Jimmy Buffett and his Acoustic Airmen
- Jack White
- Beck
- Lionel Richie
- David Byrne
- Anita Baker
- Bonnie Raitt
- Khalid
- Sturgill Simpson
- Jack Johnson
- Sheryl Crow
- Common
- Cage the Elephant
- Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
- The Revivalists
- Steve Miller Band
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
- Smokey Robinson
- Juanes
- Lyle Lovett & His Large Band
- Toots & The Maytals
- Aaron Neville
- George Benson
- Charlie Wilson
- Delbert McClinton
- Irma Thomas
- Steel Pulse
- The Radiators @ 40
- Jon Batiste with The Dap-Kings
- Big Freedia
- Buddy Guy
- Old Crow Medicine Show
- Blind Boys of Alabama
- John Mayall
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- Savion Glover
- Leslie Odom Jr.
- Charles Lloyd & The Marvels with special guest Lucinda Williams
- Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
- The Fabulous Thunderbirds featuring Kim Wilson
- Tamela Mann
- Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
- Galactic
- Better than Ezra
- Tab Benoit
- Dianne Reeves
- Telmary y Habana Sana of Cuba
- Los Silver Stars of Honduras
- Hezekiah Walker
- Ron Carter Trio
- Rebirth Brass Band
- Tank and the Bangas
- The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
- The Bounce featuring Cupid
- 5th Ward Weebie
- DJ Jubilee
- Partners-N-Crime
- and Ricky B
- Archie Shepp Quartet
- Anders Osborne
- Sona Jobarteh of Gambia
- Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
- Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles
- Jupiter & Okwess of the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Kermit Ruffins’ Tribute to Louis Armstrong
- Davell Crawford
- Boyfriend
- Chocolate Milk
- Ruthie Foster
- Big Sam’s Funky Nation
- Samantha Fish
- The Soul Rebels
- Sonny Landreth
- Sweet Crude
- Jazz Fest celebrates the New Orleans Tricentennial
- Walter Trout
- Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton
- Pine Leaf Boys
- Socks in the Frying Pan of Ireland
- Jake Shimabukuro
- Sidi Touré of Mali
- James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars
- Walter Wolfman Washington & the Roadmasters
- George Porter
- Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners
- Jon Cleary
- Terence Blanchard & the E-Collective
- Wayne Toups
- GIVERS
- Cowboy Mouth
- Marcia Ball
- Calexico
- Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
- The Last Bandoleros
- Doug Kershaw & Friends
- Bobby Rush
- John Boutté
- Hiss Golden Messenger
- Zachary Richard
- Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton featuring Henry Butler
- Darcy Malone & the Tangle
- The Walls Group
- Jermaine Landrum & Abundant Praise Revival Choir
- Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indians
- Lakou Mizik of Haiti
- Imagination Movers
- Big Chief Donald Harrison
- Kod Kreyol and the Creole Dance Ensemble of Haiti
- Furious Five Social Aid & Pleasure Club
- Nicholas Payton
- Don Vappie’s Tribute to King Oliver
- Lost Bayou Ramblers
- Lena Prima
- John Mooney
- Lee Boys
- The East Pointers of Canada
- Royal Teeth
- Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars
- Meschiya Lake Remembers Sweet Emma Barrett
- Hot 8 Brass Band
- Tribute to Fats Domino with special guest Jerry Lee Lewis