Promote filmmaking, trumpets, and horns, and not voodoo queens, haunted mansions, or violence! Put a videocamera, or musical instrument in your hands, and watch the guys or girls gravitate towards you! 460,000 attended this years New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (the highest since Hurricane Katrina).
No voodoo queens, such as, Marie Laveau, LaLaurie Mansions, “American Horror Story: Coven” or Plantation House Tours, here. Instead, film, art, and music, at the New Orleans Jazz Festival was just what Dr. John: Ske Dat De Dat…The Spirit of Satch, ordered. Only a few miles away from the Central Business District, is a horse racing track, known as the Fair Grounds Race Course, where 7 days of music are spread out over the course of two weekends, April 22- May 1, 2015. Walk around the grounds to the 7 stages and 5 tents, and food vendors, and there is sure to be a musician or meal, you will love; from blues, jazz, to the most popular artists, and food from crawfish pie, po’boys, fried green tomatoes, pheasant, quail, and andouille gumbo, catfish amandine, Creole stuffed crab with potato salad, and mango freeze. Although the main acts on the largest stage (the Acura stage), Trombone Shorty, The Meters, Lenny Kravitz, and Jerry Lee Lewis, did not disappoint, my favorites were the local jazz and brass bands (Calvin Johnson Quartet), in the small NOCCA (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts) Tent, and Buddy Guy in the Blues Tent.
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