Festival Spotlight: Jazzfest Edition, Pt. 1

Nola.com's Jazzfest Impact Blog: News, updates, photos and videos from the Jazz and Heritage Festival

Here's a link to all of Keith Spera's Fest-related POSTS.

WWOZ's Blog HERE.

Lots of good posts on the NY Times' Jazzfest Blog HERE.


Check out the Times Picayune's Jazzfest Blog HERE.

Gambit Weekly has some good posts HERE.

Check out Dino Perrucci's Jazzfest Pix HERE.



Chris Rose: The Man With the Jazzfest Plan

Check out Chris' "60 Second Interviews":

1. Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes

2. Ivan Neville
3. Don Vappie
4. David & Roselyn
5. Leroy Jones

6. Susan Cowsill
7. Paul Sanchez

Eating Out's "What to Eat at New Orleans Jazzfest"

New Orleans Native Sons in Musical Return

"At every New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival from 1990 to 2005, the closing set belonged to the Neville Brothers, the band that is led by Art, Aaron, Charles and Cyril Neville and that often includes a member of the family’s next generation. Hurrica Katrina broke that streak, but on Sunday the Nevilles plan to play their first hometown concert after the storm."

See also: Neville Bros. return to New Orleans Jazzfest

An Oldies Marathon Runs a Few Extra Miles

Men whooped and hollered, rasped and preached. Women sassed, strutted, hurled accusations and wailed away tears. Guitars twanged and cackled, horns laughed, and drums pounded backbeats and chattered with funk. Tuesday was the first of two nights of the seventh annual Ponderosa Stomp, a party on its way to becoming an institution. The Ponderosa Stomp is an oldies marathon as dreamed up by record collectors: the kind of music fans who prize soul veterans’ rare B-sides and limited-edition garage-rock singles, the wilder the better.

Humid City's Jazzfest posts HERE.

Techno Gumbo's Jazzfest recap HERE.

Odd Bits of Life In New Orleans has Jazzfest posts HERE.

Minor Wisdom's posts are HERE.

Patrons fill grounds to kick off Jazz Fest

The festival’s famous diversity again was on colorful display. Fabulously costumed Mardi Gras Indians chanted and danced on stage and through the racetrack grounds. Ten costumed members of the Creole Wild West tribe, including adults and children, performed during the mid-afternoon at one of the event’s smaller venues, the Jazz and Heritage Stage. Noncostumed performers joined them, singing and banging that traditional Indians instrument, the tambourine. “Let’s go get ’em, let’s go get ’em,” the group’s singer exclaimed. “You can’t put it out, till you make ’em shout!”

see also: New Orleans Jazzfest lets the good times roll

see also: Day One at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival,

Get into that New Orleans groove at home

Can't get to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival? Create your own. USA TODAY selects two dozen current discs by a diverse cross section of regional favorites playing this year's fest, which wraps up Sunday.

Ball like roots-music idols she admired

This weekend will be the 30th anniversary of Marcia Ball’s debut at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. With only two exceptions, the Austin-dwelling former Louisianan appeared at the festival every year since 1978.

The Americas - Out of Sorts' Blog HERE.