French Quarter Fest is happening April 7-April 10 and WWOZ will be there again, broadcasting live! The full schedule was released last week. Stage map located at the bottom.

Thursday, April 7

10a Kickoff Parade starting from 100 Bourbon St. f/New Wave Brass Band

 

Jackson Square Stage

10:45a Steamboat Natchez calliope
11:15a PresHall Brass Band
12:45p John Boutte
2:20p Fredy Omar con su Banda
3:50p Ellis Marsalis
5:30p Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra

Abita Beer Stage (Berger Great Lawn)

11a Deacon John
12:35p Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers
2:10p The Dixie Cups
3:45p The New Orleans Suspects
5:20p Cowboy Mouth

Tropical Isle Hand Grenade Stage (Riverfront Pavilion)

11a Johnny Sansone
12:30p Joe Krown Trio w/Walter 'Wolfman' Washington & Russell Batiste, Jr.
2p Lynn Drury Band
3:50p Sonny Landreth
5:25p Bag of Donuts

GE Digital Big River Stage

11a Panorama Jazz band
12:30p Charlie Wooton Project
2p Tin Men
3:30p Cha Wa
5:15p John Papa Gros

Cajun/Zydeco Showcase (Bienville Statue)

12:30p Bruce Daigrepont
2p T'Canaille
3:45p The Doghill Stompers
5:30p The Revelers

 

Friday, April 8

Jackson Square

11:15a Connie Jones & the FQF All-Stars
12:45p Banu Gibson & New Orleans Hot Jazz
2:20p Davell Crawford
3:50p The Dukes of Dixieland
5:20p James Andrews

Abita Beer Stage (Woldenberg Park)

11a The Allyn Robinson Project
12:35p Sweet Crude
2:10p Irma Thomas
3:45p Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles
5:25p Walter 'Wolfman Washington & the Roadmasters
7:15p The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Tropical Isle Hand Grenade Stage

11a Marc Stone
12:30p Kid Merv & All That Jazz
2p Dex Daley & Jam-X
4p Kim Carson & the Real Deal
5:45p Mason Ruffner
7:30p Otra

GE Digital Big River Stage

11a Vic Shepherd with More Reverb
12:30p The Irene Sage Band
2p Chris Mule and the Perpetrators
3:45p Robin Barnes
5:30p Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes
7:15p Bill Summers & Jazalsa

Cajun/Zydeco Showcase

12:30p Waylon Thibodeaux Band
2p Babineaux Sisters Band
3:45p Lost Bayou Ramblers
5:30p Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band
7:30p Leroy Thomas & the Zydeco Roadrunners

Spanish Plaza

11a Johnny J. & the Hitmen
12:45p New Birth Brass Band
2:15p Mia Borders
3:50p Soul Project NOLA
5:30p Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs
followed by a Tribute to Allen Toussaint official festival after-party at House of Blues

House of Blues Voodoo Garden Stage

12p New Orleans Trombone Choir
2:30p Tyler Kinchen & the Right Pieces
5p Kumasi
6:30p Michot's Melody Makers
9p Luke Winslow King

French Market Traditional Jazz Stage

11:30a Free dance lessons
12p Ben Polcer & the Grinders
2p Steve Pistorius & the Southern Syncopators
4p New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings

French Market International Stage (Dutch Alley)

12p Beth Patterson
1:30p Daniele Spadavecchia & Sicilian Swing
3p Pascal Valcasara Quartet

Esplanade in the Shade Stage (Louisiana State Museum at the Old U.S. Mint)

11a Sarah Quintana & the Miss River Band
12:30p Benny Grunch & the Bunch
2p Little Maker
3:45p Susan Cowsill
5:30p The Batture Boys featuring Tommy Malone and Ray Ganucheau

Popeyes Brass Band Jam with OffBeat

11:15a Audacity Brass Band
12:45p Red Wolf Brass Band
2:15p Leroy Jones' Original Hurricane Brass Band
4p New Orleans Nightcrawlers
5:45p Hot 8 Brass Band

Bourbon Street (300 Bourbon)

2:30p David Torkanowsky tribute to Allen Toussaint
5p Don Vappie & Steve Masakowski Duo
8p Playhouse Revue

Saturday, April 9

Jackson Square

11:15a Tim Laughlin
12:45p Lena Prima & Band
2:20p The Ronnie Kole Show featuring John Perkins
3:50p Leroy Jones & New Orleans' Finest
5:20p Lillian Boutte & Gumbo Zaire

Abita Beer Stage

11a John Mooney & Bluesiana
12:35p Brother Tyrone & the Mindbenders
2:10p The Iguanas
3:45p Little Freddie King
5:25p Bonerama
7:15p Big Sam's Funky Nation

Tropical Isle Hand Grenade Stage

11a Christian Serpas & Ghost Town
12:30p Ovi-G & the Froggies
2p Hot Rod Lincoln
4p Wes Raymond & the SOUL Factory
5:45p Dash Rip Rock
7:30p Partners N Crime & the Big EZ Band f/DJ Jubilee

GE Digital Big River Stage

11a T-Ray the Violinist & D2R (Dreams2Reality)
12:30p Funk Monkey
2p Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue
3:45p Charmaine NEville
5:30p Big Chief Bo Dollis, Jr. & the Wild Magnolias
7:15p Flow Tribe

Cajun/Zydeco Showcase

12:30p Amy Nicole & Zydeco Soul
1:45p Dance lessons
2p Jo-el Sonnier
3:15p Dance lessons
3:45p Donna Angelle & the Zydeco Posse
5:30p Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots
7:30p Feufollet

Spanish Plaza

11a Casa Samba Extravaganza
12:45p Camile Baudoin & the Living Rumors
2:15p Smoke N Bones
3:50p Michael 'Soulman' Baptiste
5:30p Gina Brown & Anutha Level

House of Blues Voodoo Gardens Stage

12p Brint Anderson Trio
2p Magnetic Ear
4p Gypsy Elise & the Royal Blues
7:30p Hazy Ray
9:15p Tysson

French Market Traditional Jazz Stage

10:30a Dance lessons
11a Miss Sophie Lee
12:45p The New Orleans Jazz Vipers
2p Dance lessons
2:30p Charlie Halloran & the Quality 6
3:45p Dance lessons
4:15p Linnzi Zaorski

French Market International Stage (Dutch Alley)

12p New Bumpers Jazz Band (France)
1:30p Kobe Next Winners (Japan)
3p Feet Street Jazzband (Norway)
4:30p Canal Creepers (Sweden)

Esplanade in the Shade

11a Darla & the Hip Drops
12:30p The Revealers
2p Happy Talk Band
3:45p Naughty Professor
5:30p Tank & the Bangas

Popeyes Brass Band Jam w/OffBeat

11:15a Storyville Stompers Brass Band
12:45p Red Hot Brass Band
2:15p Mahogany Brass Band
4p New Breed Brass Band
5:45p Stooges Brass Band

Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta

2:30p Ed 'Sweetbread' Petersen & Victor 'Red' Atkins Stevie Wonder Tribute
5p Bill Summers & Amber Matthews

Zapp's Potato Chips Stage

11:30a New Orleans Classic Jazz Orchestra
1:45p Rhodes Spedale & Live Jazz Group
4p Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses

Jack Daniels Stage

11:15a Some Like It Hot Traditional Jazz Band
1:30p Clive Wilson's New Orleans Serenaders
3:45p Orange Kellin's New Orleans Deluxe Orchestra

Tequila Herradura Stage

11a Garden District Band
1:15p Paulin Brothers Jazz Band
3:30p Duke Heitger's Steamboat Stompers

Crimestoppers Courthouse Stage

11a Bamboula 2000
12:30p Vivaz!
2p Don Vappie & the Creole Jazz Serenaders
3:45p Anais St. John

Omni Royal Orleans Stage

12p Wendell Brunious
1:45p Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns
3:30p Mayumi Shara & New Orleans Jazz Letters

BMI Songwriter Stage at the Historic New Orleans Collection

12p Kelcy Mae
12:45p Denton Hatcher
1:30p Erin Miley
2:15p Rebecca Roubien
3p Aaron Lopez Barrantes
3:45p Adam Crochet
4:30p Alexis & the Samurai
5:15p Andrew Duhon

Rouses Stage

12p Hot Club of New Orleans
1:45p Washboard Chaz Blues Trio
3:30p Riccardo Crespo & Sol Brasil

Preservation Hall Stage

12p John Royen's New Orleans Rhythm Band
1p Lucien Barbarin
2p Frank Oxley & the Joint Chiefs of Jazz
3p The Preservation Hall Legacy Band w/Wendell Brunious

New Orleans Magazine Cabaret Stage at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe

12p Tom McDermott & the Jazz Masters
1p Dayna Kurtz
2p The Salt Wives
3p Bad Penny Pleasuremakers

St. Mary's at the Ursuline Convent Classical Music Stage

11a Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra
12:30p Opera Creole
2p Andre Bohren
3:30p Harpist Rachel Van Voorhees

Sunday, April 10

Jackson Square

11:15a The Pfister Sisters
12:45p Paul Sanchez
2:20p Wanda Rouzan and a Taste of New Orleans
3:50p Jeremy Davenport
5:30p Shannon Powell Traditional All-Star Band

Abita Beer Stage

11a Jean Knight and Her Band
12:35p Bucktown All-Stars
2:10p Raw Oyster Cult
3:45p Buckwheat Zydeco
5:20p Brass-A-Holics

Tropical Isle Hand Grenade Stage

11a Melody Cloud Singers
12:30p Chegadao
2p Caesar Brothers Funk Box
3:50p Honey Island Swamp Band
5:25p Erica Falls

GE Digital Big River Stage

11a Marc Adams Band
12:30p Debauche
2p MainLine
3:45p Davis Rogan
5:15p Corey Henry's Treme Funktet

Bienville Stage

12:30p Sweet Cecelia
1:30p Dance lessons
2p Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers
3p Dance lessons
3:30p Amanda Shaw
5:30p Rockin' Dopsie and the Zydeco Twisters

Spanish Plaza

11a Andre Bouvier & the Royal Bohemians
12:45p Ingrid Lucia
2:15p Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers
3:50p Los Po-Boy-Citos
5:30p Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars

House of Blues Voodoo Garden Stage (225 Decatur)

12p Jake Landry
2p Cary Hudson
4p Kent Burnside
6:30p Cedric Burnside Project

French Market Traditional Jazz Stage

10:30a Dance lessons
11a Smoking Time Jazz Club
12:25a Dance lessons
12:45p Chance Bushman & the Ibervilliaires
2p Dance lessons
2:30p Palmetto Bug Stompers
3:45p Dance lessons
4:15p Tuba Skinny

French Market International Stage

12p Plasma Beat Jazz Band (Canada)
1:30p Liquid Time Jazz Band (Canada)
3p Pontchartrain Owls (International)

Esplanade in the Shade Stage

11a Dave Jordan & the NIA
12:30p Creole String Beans
2p Alex McMurray
3:45p Egg Yolk Jubilee
5:30p Astral Project

Popeyes Brass Band Jam with OffBeat

11:15a Andrew Hall's Society Brass Band
12:45p Sons of Jazz Brass Band
2:15p Treme Brass Band
4p Lagniappe Brass Band
5:45p The Original Pinettes Brass Band

Bourbon Street (300 Bourbon)

2:30p Glen David Andrews Gospel Tribute
5p Trumpet Summit Playhouse Revue

Zapp's Potato Chips Stage

11:30a The Last Straws
1:45p Kris Tokarski
4p Mark Brooks

Jack Daniels Stage

11:15a Kid Simmons Jazz Band
1:30 Tommy Sancton's New Orleans Legacy Band
3:45p Shotgun Jazz Band

Tequila Herradura Stage

11a Rick Trolsen's New Orleans Po'Boys
1:15p Thais Clark & her JAZZsters
3:30p Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band

Crimestoppers Court House Stage

11a Don Jamison Heritage School of Music
12:15p Patrice Fisher & Arpa
1:30p Helen Gillet's Wazozo Zorchestra
3p Lawrence Cotton Legendary Experience
4:30p Solid Harmony
6p Dancing at Dusk with the Jimmy Maxwell Orchestra

Omni Royal Orleans Stage

12p New Orleans Moonshiners
1:45p Carl LeBlanc
3:30p Joe Cabral Thrio

BMI Songwriter Stage

12p Reed Alleman Band
12:45p Alexandra Scott
1:30p Peter Novelli
2:15p Hana Kreiger-Benson
3p Amy Trail
3:45p St. Cecelia's Asylum Chorus
4:30p Maggie Koerner
5:15p Colin Lake

Rouse's Stage

12p Harmonouche
1:45p Ken Swartz & the Palace of Sin
3:30p Mahala

Preservation Hall Stage

12p Tornado Brass Band
1p The Reed-Miners
2p Calvin Johnson & Native Son
3p The Preservation Hall Legacy Band with Greg Stafford

New Orleans Magazine Cabaret Stage at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe

12p Lars Edegren's New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
1p Andy J Forest Trio
2p Goat in the Road
3p Hot Stuff featuring Becky Allen

St. Mary's at the Ursuline Convent Classical Music Stage (1116 Chartres)

11a New Orleans Volunteer Orchestra
12:30p John Rankin
2p Jee Yeoun Ko & Friends
3:30p St. Louis Cathedral Young Artist in Residence, Pierre Ouerol