The legendary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will return to New Orleans this October, and organizers have now shared the official 2021 lineup (including many acts from the scrapped 2020 version).
Headliners for weekend one (Oct. 8-10) will be Dead & Company, Foo Fighters, Lizzo, The Black Crowes, Demi Lovato, Brandi Carlile and Wu-Tang Clan featuring The Soul Rebels.
Weekend two (Oct. 15-18) will boast Stevie Nicks, Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band, H.E.R., Norah Jones, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Beach Boys and many more.
A number of NOLA regulars will also grace the Jazz Fest stages including Trombone Shorty, Irma Thomas, Jon Batiste, George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners, Tank and the Bangas, Galactic, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Cyril Neville, Leo Nocentelli, Anders Osborne, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians, Big Freedia and Dumpstaphunk, among others.
2019 was the last Jazz Fest, marking the event’s 50th anniversary and welcoming over 475,000 music fans to the Crescent City.
For more information, visit nojazzfest.com.
Check out the full lineups below:
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2021
October 8 – 10
Dead & Company, Foo Fighters, Lizzo, The Black Crowes, Demi Lovato, Brandi Carlile, Wu-Tang Clan featuring The Soul Rebels, The Revivalists, Ludacris, Ziggy Marley: Songs of Bob Marley, Randy Newman, Tank and The Bangas, Galactic, David Sanborn, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Kermit Ruffins & the Barbeque Swingers, Chris Isaak, Cyril Neville, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Charlie Musselwhite, Arturo Sandoval, Martha Redbone Roots Project, Ricky Skaggs, Doug Kershaw, Boyfriend, El Gran Combo, Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials, Tab Benoit, Leo Nocentelli, Anders Osborne, Walter Wolfman Washington & the Roadmasters, Little Freddie King, Kathy Taylor and Favor, Tribute to Bessie Smith, Nicholas Payton, Deacon John, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians, We are One and Divine Ladies Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, plus hundreds more.
October 15 – 17
Stevie Nicks, Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band, H.E.R., Norah Jones, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Beach Boys, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Jon Batiste, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Brittany Howard, Irma Thomas, Melissa Etheridge, The Isley Brothers, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Boz Scaggs, Rickie Lee Jones, Ledisi, Tower of Power, Big Freedia, Keb’ Mo’ Band, PJ Morton, Playing for Change Band, Samantha Fish, Terence Blanchard feat. The E-Collective, Rebirth Brass Band, Shovels & Rope, Asleep at the Wheel, Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, The Radiators, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners, Davell Crawford, Puss N Boots, The Campbell Brothers, Jermaine Landrum & Abundant Praise Revival Choir, The Roots of Music Marching Crusaders, Tribute to Dr. John, The Count Basie Orchestra, New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Ronnie Lamarque, plus hundreds more.
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Greg
June 26, 2021 at 8:06 pmC’mon y’all no replies. You know it is funny in a really sad way. I loved jazzfest. Want no part of jizzfest. Local band at beach tomorrow sounds better.
Chris
June 28, 2021 at 11:01 amYou don’t like the lineup? Then don’t go. No one cares about your whining. Not everyone feels the need to be negative about everything.
Music is subjective. Some people like these bands. Some people don’t. And I couldn’t care less.
zonk
June 28, 2021 at 12:20 pmPLENTY of music in New Orleans. The JF line up is just icing on the cake. Can’t wait!!!!
Greg
June 26, 2021 at 2:48 pmOh and who can forget. Melissa E and Brandi Carlisle reminding us all that they are gay every 5 minutes. As in every. Single. Fucking . Song. Can’t forget that, right?
Greg
June 26, 2021 at 2:40 pmWhat a shitty lineup. Mayer and Co slogging thru 15 minute versions of 5 minute songs. S Nicks goating her way thru a sonically painful full solo set.HER and lizzo bragging about being fat and black. BrittneyHoward playing her lousy solo album while gorging on cakes and pies. Randy Newman playing whatever he calls that shit. How about a blm tent where white liberals can volunteer to be robbed all weekend? Hard pass on nola.3 hours away is too close going forward.