Big-name, nationally known musical artists are always part of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Guitarist and singer Deacon John Moore strums a guitar at his home in New Orleans, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Moore has been a regular performer at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival since it began in 1970, and is playing the festival again this year. in 1970 with their groundbreaking funk band The Meters. More than 50 years later, The Meters are no more, but Porter and Modeliste are still among the festival's mainstays.
Plenty of nationally and internationally known acts populate the roster for the 2023 festival, which includes current megastars like Lizzo and Ed Sheeran and long-established crowd-pleasing artists like Santana and the Steve Miller Band. Thus, preceding Lizzo on one of the festival's biggest stages last Friday were two New Orleans acts, Big Freedia, then Tank and the Bangas. Louisiana-rooted bands Sweet Crude and The Revivalists were on that same stage Saturday before Sheeran performed. Another veteran of The Meters, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, performed Sunday.
Moore, who turns 82 in June, doesn’t mind the influx of big-name pop acts that don’t necessarily have a Louisiana connection. When Jazz Fest debuted more than 50 years ago, it provided a needed showcase for local musicians, some of whom had not seen financial benefits commensurate with their early recording success. Thomas, who started recording as a teenager, had national or regional hits including “Wish Someone Would Care,” “It’s Raining,” and “Ruler of My Heart,” by the time she first took a Jazz Fest stage in 1974. The festival was a kind of homecoming for Thomas, who lived at the time in California.
Among his examples, Davis noted the touring success of Trombone Shorty, who first appeared at Jazz Fest as a child and now traditionally closes the festival with his dynamic, brass-heavy blend of New Orleans funk, rhythm and blues and rock.
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