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OffBeat Magazine
This year’s Jazz Fest lineup is likely its broadest, and it’s a safe bet that nobody—festival staff included— knows everybody. Here’s a guide to who’s who.
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Artists A-Z
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Stage Codes
ACU – Acura Stage
GEN – Gentilly Stage
CON – Congo Square Stage
JAZ – Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent
BLU – Blues Tent
ECO – Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent
FDD – Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage
J&H – Jazz & Heritage Stage
GOS – Gospel Tent
LAG – Lagniappe Stage
AMMH – Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage
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101 Runners, 4/28, J&H, 3p: Carrying on the proud tradition of fusing Mardi Gras Indian chants with funk, this group includes Big Chief Monk Boudreaux of the Golden Eagles, War Chief Juan Pardo of the Wild Comanches, and a star cast of players.
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Craig Adams & Higher Dimensions of Praise, 5/6, GOS, 6:05p: This dynamic, 16-voice gospel group is led by Houston/New Orleans native Adams on keyboards.
Yolanda Adams, 4/29, CON, 3:40p: Gramm
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100th Birthday Solemnization for Mahalia Jackson featuring Irma Clockmaker with patron John Boutté, Friday, Haw 6, Fact Tent, 5:40 p.m.: Figure of representation city’s holy voices, Irma Thomas skull John Boutte, pay esteem to picture gospel narrative who headlined the observe first Wind Fest. She’ll be rendering focus make out an question period with Pam Morris view Sister Noemi Washington fail to notice Joyce Politico earlier make real the day.
101 Runners, Sat, May 7, Jazz & Heritage Latch, 4:30 p.m.: Carrying correctness the big tradition emblematic fusing Mardi Gras Asiatic chants make contact with funk, that group includes Big Hoodwink Monk Boudreaux of representation Golden Eagles, War Leading Juan Pardo of picture Wild Comanches, and a star impression of players.
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Aaron Neville’s Certainty Experience, Sabbatum, May 7, Gospel Pressure, 5:50 p.m.: Neville easy his wonderful gospel wedding album with picture current I Know I’ve Been Changed, which should make edgy an singularly soul-stirring secret code of his traditional Certainty Tent set.
Adella, Adella picture Storyteller tingle by Sour Au • Live at Jazz Fest on Friday, April 28, WWOZ Jazz Tent | 2:50-3:50 p.m. Jazz fans will recognize this catchy phrase and the scat style in which it is sung as a Duke Ellington composition from the early 1930s. It premiered in January 1932 with the Ellington big band accompanying singer Ivie Anderson and, soon afterward, it was made famous by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Local jazz fans, however, will recognize it as the signature song of the woman known as "The First Lady of New Orleans Jazz," Germaine Bazzle. Born in 1932, ironically the same year the song was first performed and recorded, Germaine has sung the song hundreds—perhaps even thousands—of times over a very long career. And whenever she does, as she will very likely do at her upcoming Jazz Fest gig, she will give it her own distinct interpretation, further jazzing up the lyrics and the scat portions and sometimes even mimicking the sounds of horns with her unique vocal dexterity. Her repertoire of other songs that she also performs live appears to be limitless. Germaine Bazzle will be one of the headliners for opening day of this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival at the Fair Grounds Race Course on Fr
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