Dawes, Trombone Shorty, Buddy Guy Highlight New Orleans Jazz Fest Sunday (FESTIVAL RECAP/PHOTOS)

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On Sunday, Jazz Fest closed the book on it’s 48th year of music, food and fun. And what a good book it was. No other festival can boast music with so many flavors happening all at the same time. You can walk from a blues stage, where Jonathan Boogie Long and Tab Benoit put on rockin’ hot sets of blues rock, to a gospel stage, step inside a courtyard for some singer-songwriter melodies, stand in front of big stages that feature rock, rap, Jazz, Zydeco, Soul, pop, country and Americana – all on the same day, every day, for two straight weekends.

It’s also a festival that celebrates different cultures, not only the Mardi Gras and Native American Indians but of Mexico and Latin America, and this year’s special guest, Cuba. There were artists painting and creating crafts and cooking specialty foods from their culture. The festival also celebrates young musicians from Loyola, UNO, Southern and NOCCA. It brings in young bands just coming on the scene to legends, like Patti LaBelle and Buddy Guy on Sunday. It reunites bands for a special performance, a la the New Orleans band the Meters. It brings in people not only from across the country but from all over the world. For seven days, it is it’s own universe. As someone told me on Sunday, “Why can’t everyone all over the world be like this, getting along and just enjoying being with other people like we are today.” Truer words have not been spoken.

Highlights on Sunday were many: Dawes rocked out on the Fais Do-Do Stage like no one has before them; Buddy Guy brought his smile and his blues licks to the Gentilly Stage; Patti LaBelle, decked out in bright red sequins and blue fingernails, was all class despite the unbearable heat; Glide Artist To See Erica Falls brought some sweet soul to the Congo Stage and then hopped over to the main stage to perform in white shorts with Stanton Moore and Galactic; Jonathan Boogie Long gave the blues stage a jolt of adrenalin with his purple hued guitar; and then Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue sent us home with their usual rocked out, jazzed up, funked down set.

So farewell Jazz Fest until this same time next year. And the countdown begins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

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