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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Starts Today...
Posted in Jazz Festival on Apr 25, 2008 at 5:42 PM
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Jazz Festival

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, often known as Jazz Fest, is an annual celebration of the music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana. Use of the term "Jazz Fest" can also include the days surrounding the Festival and the many shows at unaffiliated New Orleans nightclubs scheduled during the Festival event weekends.
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According to the official Jazz Fest website, "The Festival celebrates the indigenous music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana, so the music encompasses every style associated with the city and the state: blues, R&B, gospel music, Cajun music, zydeco, Afro-Caribbean, folk music, Latin, rock, rap music, country music, bluegrass and everything in between. And of course there is lots of jazz, both contemporary and traditional."
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Jazz Fest is currently held during the day at the New Orleans Fairgrounds on two weekends. The weekends are the last weekend in April (from Friday through Sunday) and the first weekend in May (Thursday through Sunday). For two years following Hurricane Katrina, the second weekend was Friday through Sunday only, but the Thursday was restored in 2008. On a few occasions, severe rainstorms have closed individual days of the festival.
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In addition to the Fairgrounds events, some night concerts at other venues are usually held as official Jazz Fest events. Also, many more music events than usual take place around the city during Jazz Fest and the week in between the two weekends. The festival is a major tourism destination, with an importance for New Orleans only rivaled by Mardi Gras.
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Early Jazz Fests featured almost exclusively local acts; as the Festival grew, more nationally known acts (most recently in 2008, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, Tim McGraw, and Robert Plant & Allison Krauss) were scheduled in addition to local performers.
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The Festival has been held yearly since 1970, when it was founded by George Wein along with Quint Davis and Allison Miner. After founding the fest, Miner ran its day to day operation for George Wein for many years. Miner also founded the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive, which contains recordings from musicians interviewed at the festival.
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When Miner died on December 23, 1995[2], the interviewing stage was renamed in her memory. After her death, Wein and Davis, with Davis as the Festival producer and driving force in putting together the event, continued the festival.
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"taken from wikipedia" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Jazz_Festival
schedules & performers at the following link www.nojazzfest.com
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