One day to Jazz Fest

Normally, I post things like this about 24 hours before the event happens, leaving roughly two hours for me to actually check if anybody's going. This is probably going in the other extreme, but it's one month until the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The "cubes" went up today (http://www.nojazzfest.com).

Anybody else going? You can check my plans at the BLOGS!!! listed below.

 

Re: One month to Jazz Fest

I would love to go to this, especially since the Truckers are playing. But no way I can make it this year. Maybe next.

 

Re: One month to Jazz Fest

Drive-By Truckers are on my must-see list, but they are playing at the same time as Trombone Shorty, who are also on that list. The stages are at opposite ends of the Fair Grounds. I may choose Drive-By Truckers over the local act, but I'm such an old fogey these days that calling NOLA "local" is a real stretch.

 

Re: One month to Jazz Fest

Outside the few headliners, how long do all the acts get to play?

 

Re: One month to Jazz Fest

In helping make the aforementioned decision, very few people will ever get to see the Truckers AND Booker T together, so there's that.

 

Re: One month to Jazz Fest

On the smaller stages, it's 40-55 minutes usually. Bigger stage acts get longer. Truckers are scheduled for 70 minutes, and the Jazz Fest folks are pretty much fascists about the schedule.

 

Re: One month to Jazz Fest

Damn, I may have to quit my job.

 

Re: One month to Jazz Fest

Wife and I are going the last day to see Neil Young, followed by the Radiators. Still (vaguely ) recall the early days when the Rads used to play at the Maple Leaf Bar. Some good times were had back then.

 

Re: One month to Jazz Fest

Same here.

Dr. John, Bonnie Rait, Earth Wind and Fire, The O'Jays, Tab Benoit, Allen Toussaint, Emmylou Harris, AND B-U-D-D-Y G-U-Y?!?!

If the reanimated corpses of John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf and Professor Longhair showed up, it'd be the greatest festival ever.

 

Re: One month to Jazz Fest

I was going to go for the second weekend but my buddy that I was going to stay with has to work most of Friday and Saturday. I may still head down there. I had a blast last year, and Trombone Shorty was awesome.

 

Re: One month to Jazz Fest

I went there when I was 16. It was OK. Though I wish I were five or six years older before going.

 

Tomorrow's my last day at the mine before a week-plus Jazz Fest extravaganza. I plan to enjoy it thoroughly. Let me know if anybody else will be there first Friday and Saturday, then second Saturday.