The Festival Roundup May 2017

This is The Festival Roundup as printed in our May 2017 issue, the most recent monthly roundup can be found in our menu.  NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL (New Orleans, LA) – April 28-May 7 One of the biggest and best festivals in North America, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presents music between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. during the last weekend of April and first weekend of May, at a dozen different stages all over the Fair Grounds Race Course, in the historic Mid-City neighborhood. Each stage is dedicated to different style of music, and jazz fans pay particular attention to venues such as the Congo Square Stage, the Gospel Tent, the Jazz & Heritage Stage, the Blues Tent, and the Economy Hall Tent. Performers for the 47th annual festival include headliners Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Maroon 5, Dave Matthews, and Tim Reynolds, Harry Connick, Jr., Meghan Trainor, Lorde, Snoop Dogg, Alabama Shakes, and Widespread Panic. Many of New Orleans’ best-known performers will include Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Rebirth Brass Band, Ivan Neville, Irma Thomas, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & The Golden Eagles, Kermit Ruffins, Henry Butler, Big Chief Donald Harrison, James Andrews and the Crescent City All-Stars, John Mooney & Bluesiana, and Dr. Michael White, the Preservation Hall JB, Cyril Neville & SwampFunk, a salute to Louis