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.
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2023 Artist Lineup
Big Freedia
Gary Clark Jr
Leon Bridges
Lizzo
Ludacris
Mumford & Sons
Rebirth Brass Band
The Lumineers
The Revivalists
- Ed Sheeran
- Lizzo
- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
- Jill Scott
- Tedeschi Trucks Band
- Gary Clark Jr.
- Steve Miller Band
- Kenny Loggins
- Wu-Tang Clan + The Soul Rebels
- Jazmine Sullivan
- The Revivalists
- Big Freedia
- Los Lobos
- Jamie Cullum
- Tank and The Bangas
- Taj Mahal Quartet
- Allison Russell
- Mavis Staples
- Marcus King
- Angelique Kidjo
- Samantha Fish
- Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
- The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
- Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers
- Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
- Rebirth Brass Band
- La Tribu de Abrante
- Plena Libre
- Ángel “Papote” Alvarado y el Grupo Esencia
- Conjunto Típico Samaritano
- Tambuyé
- and the Vejigante Parade with Casa de la Plena Tito Matos
- Charlie Musselwhite
- Cyril Neville
- Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen
- Leo Nocentelli
- Sonny Landreth
- Cory Wong
- Mdou Moctar of Niger
- The Campbell Brothers
- The Gospel Soul of Irma Thomas
- Nicholas Payton ft. MonoNeon & Corey Fonville
- Sweet Crude
- Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience
- Little Freddie King Blues Band
- Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots
- Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles
- Charmaine Neville Band
- New Orleans Classic Recording Revue featuring The Dixie Cups
- Clarence “Frogman” Henry
- Wanda Rouzan
- and Al “Carnival Time” Johnson
- Davell Crawford
- Lost Bayou Ramblers
- Original Pinettes Brass Band
- Dragon Smoke
- Dr. Bobby Jones
- Lil’ Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers
- Leah Chase
- Honey Island Swamp Band
- The Zion Harmonizers
- Tribute to Sidney Bechet featuring Donald Harrison Jr. and Aurora Nealand with Dr. Michael White
- Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie
- Something Else! featuring Vincent Herring
- James Carter
- Randy Brecker
- Lewis Nash
- Dave Kikoski
- Paul Bollenback & Essiet Essie
- Jordan Family Tribute to Kidd Jordan featuring Stephanie
- Rachel
- Marlon
- Dead & Company
- Mumford & Sons
- The Lumineers
- Santana
- Jon Batiste
- H.E.R.
- Kane Brown
- Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
- Farruko
- Ludacris
- Leon Bridges
- Tom Jones
- Herbie Hancock
- Buddy Guy
- Irma Thomas
- Melissa Etheridge
- NE-YO
- Galactic featuring Anjelika ‘Jelly’ Joseph
- Keb’ Mo’
- Tab Benoit
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- Terence Blanchard featuring The E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet
- Anders Osborne
- The Radiators
- Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
- Hurray for the Riff Raff
- Pirulo y la Tribu
- Atabal
- La Raíz – Bomba Mayagüezana
- Emplegoste
- and Vejigante Parade with Casa de la Plena Tito Matos
- David Shaw
- Zigaboo Modeliste and The Funk Revue
- George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners
- Big Sam’s Funky Nation
- Kermit Ruffins’ Tribute to Louis Armstrong
- Hot 8 Brass Band
- Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr.
- Durand Jones
- Christian McBride’s New Jawn
- John Hiatt & The Goners
- The Soul Rebels
- Robert Randolph Band
- Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas
- Cowboy Mouth
- Larkin Poe
- Dee Dee Bridgewater Quartet
- Leyla McCalla
- Martha Redbone
- Eric Gales
- Morgan Heritage
- Chris Thomas King
- The Flatlanders
- Eric Lindell
- Marcia Ball
- Bonerama
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
- Rockin’ Dopsie
- Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters
- J & the Causeways
- Boyfriend
- New Orleans Nightcrawlers