Hawaiian ukelele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro played two sets at Jazz Fest on Sunday. The first one was in the Cultural Exchange Pavilion, which is celebrating the music and culture of Mexico this year.
Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews has held down the final set of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival since 2013, and he often makes the show a big display of New Orleans music and culture via ...
One of my big questions this year was whether anyone would risk a political statement onstage, in this time of government crackdowns on anything deemed “woke.” Most of the statements I heard came ...
Opening a beautiful final Sunday at Jazz Fest’s Fais Do-Do Stage, Yvette Landry from Breaux Bridge led her mostly Acadiana band, the Jukes, through a set made for a southwest Louisiana dancehall.