Ben Sandmel interviews Guitar Lightnin' Lee on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage in 2012. Photo by Mike Elliot. Catch Guitar Lightnin' Lee at Crescent City Blues & BBQ Fest with a free set on Sunday, October 20 starting at 2p in Lafayette Square!  In honor of Jazz F... Read more

Zion Harmonizers perform in the Gospel Tent in 2013. Photo by Hunter King. Catch them at Crescent City Blues & BBQ Fest with a free set on Sunday, October 20 starting at 11a in Lafayette Square!  In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fes... Read more

Little Freddie King performs at Jazz Fest 2012. Photo by Bill Sasser. Catch him at Crescent City Blues & BBQ Fest with a free set on Sunday, October20 starting at 5:45p in Lafayette Square!  In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest ph... Read more

Erica Falls and Corey Henry perform with Galactic in 2016. Photo by Black Mold. Catch Erica at Crescent City Blues & BBQ Fest with a free set on Saturday, October 19 starting at 3:15p in Lafayette Square!  In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring... Read more

Luther Kent and David Torkanowsky perform May 1, 2014. Photo by Leon Morris. Catch Luther Kent kicking off the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Fest with a free set on Friday, October 18 starting at 5:30p in Lafayette Square!  In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we... Read more

Happy birthday, Kenny Neal! Here, he performs in the Blues Tent in 2013. Photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee. In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here, and at our Jazz Fest 50 page, al... Read more

Kidd Jordan performs in the Jazz Tent on April 29, 2018. Photo by Charlie Steiner. In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here, and at our Jazz Fest 50 page, all year long to see th... Read more

Jupiter & Okwess perform on the Congo Square Stage on May 4, 2019. Photo by Charlie Steiner. In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here, and at our Jazz Fest 50 page, all year long... Read more

Golden Star Hunters Black Indians of Mardi Gras on the Jazz & Heritage Stage in 2011. Photo by Richie Drouant. In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here, and at our Jazz Fest 50 p... Read more

WWOZ broadcast from the Fairgrounds in the mid-1990s. Pictured: Michael Klein, David Freedman, Sharon McKenna. Jenna Phillips made the Professor Longhair head. Photo by Ice Cube Slim, courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Archive.  In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anni... Read more