A sunny morning near Food Area 2 just after the gates opened 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 page, all year lo... Read more

Dumaine Street Gang in the WWOZ Hospitality Tent in 2011. Photo by Jef Jaisun. 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 them, ... Read more

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James "Sugarboy" Crawford performs as a guest of Jo Cool Davis in the Gospel Tent on May 6, 2012. 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 o... Read more

Katey Red performs as part of The Bounce Shakedown at the Congo Square Stage on May 6, 2012. Other performers included Big Freedia, Keedy Black, and DJ Poppa. Photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee. In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest pho... Read more

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In the summer of 1981, WWOZ founder Jerry Brock engineered a 90-minute WWOZ program, hosted by a then 43-year-old Art Neville. It was called Art Neville's 13th Ward Bag, in acknowledgement of the neighborhood where he and his brothers had grown up, and Art still lived. The ... Read more

Happy birthday to Branford Marsalis! He was born on this date in 1960. Photo at Jazz Fest 2007 by Leon Morris. 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

Happy birthday to Wayne Shorter! He was born on this date in 1933. Photo at Jazz Fest 2016 by Kichea S. Burt. 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 pa... Read more