Lured by historic Rolling Stones performance, half-a-million fans attend New Orleans Jazz Fest

An other time and the lure of an quality by the Rolling Stones pushed attendance astatine the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to a fractional a cardinal people

NEW ORLEANS -- An other time and the lure of an quality by the Rolling Stones pushed attendance astatine the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to a fractional a cardinal people, organizers said Monday.

That was the 2nd highest attendance successful the festival's past — conscionable down the 600,000 attendees successful 2001. In 2023, much than 460,000 radical passed done the festival’s gates.

“This year’s Festival presented arsenic plainly arsenic ever the quality of Jazz Fest,” festival shaper Quint Davis said successful a statement. “Watching the Rolling Stones execute with New Orleans and Louisiana stars Irma Thomas and Dwayne Dopsie was to witnesser the powerfulness of the Festival to show the transportation of our civilization to immoderate of the top euphony of our time.”

The historic, sold-out quality of the Rolling Stones past week was the triumphant decision of a multi-year effort to bring the set to the event, aft cancellations successful 2019 and 2021. Few festival performances person been much anticipated, and adjacent fewer, if any, amended received by fans, Davis said successful a statement.

Other 2024 festival highlights included Jon Batiste’s only-in-New-Orleans acceptable that paid homage to the city’s soft legends, including Professor Longhair, Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint. There was besides the Foo Fighters' electrical instrumentality to the lawsuit arsenic good arsenic appearances by Chris Stapleton, the Killers, Queen Latifah, Fantasia and Vampire Weekend.

Next year’s lawsuit is scheduled for April 24-May 4.