The Rolling Stones set to play New Orleans Jazz Fest 2024, opening Thursday

NEW ORLEANS -- It looks similar the 3rd clip is the charm arsenic the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival prepares, again, for The Rolling Stones to perform.

The festival, which spans 2 weekends, is acceptable to unfastened Thursday with dozens of acts playing regular connected 14 stages dispersed passim the historical Fair Grounds contention course. The Stones play adjacent Thursday, May 2, tickets for which person agelong been sold out.

In 2019, festival organizers thought they had landed the legendary stone band, but the quality was canceled due to the fact that pb vocalist Mick Jagger had bosom surgery. They tried again successful 2021, but a surge successful COVID-19 cases yet forced the fest to cancel.

Now, says festival shaper Quint Davis, “It's gonna beryllium special.”

This volition beryllium the archetypal clip the Stones play Jazz Fest.

Opening time acts see stone bands Widespread Panic and The Beach Boys, reggae creator Stephen Marley and jazz vocalist John Boutte.

“The endowment is great, the upwind is projected to beryllium bully and people's expectations are going to beryllium met,” Davis said.

Blue skies, sunshine and temperatures successful the 80s were forecast for opening time Thursday. Similar upwind was expected for the remainder of the archetypal weekend, which runs done Sunday and showcases performances by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jon Batiste, state megastar Chris Stapleton, R&B vocalist Fantasia, stone set Heart, Cajun fiddler Amanda Shaw and The Cute Guys, jazz pianist Patrice Rushen, and blues and people creator Ruthie Foster.

Anticipation for the Stones' show is palpable, Davis said.

“All I'm proceeding is ‘How tin I get a ticket?’” helium said of fans trying to spot the marquee performance. “Unfortunately for some, that time sold retired successful similar a day-and-a-half aft tickets went connected sale. I deliberation radical person conscionable waited truthful agelong for this.”

The Rolling Stones successful October released “ Hackney Diamonds,” their archetypal medium of archetypal worldly since 2005 and their archetypal without drummer Charlie Watts, who died successful 2021. Though helium hasn't seen a acceptable list, Davis said fans tin expect to perceive a premix of top hits and caller releases. No peculiar guests are expected to execute with the Rolling Stones, but Davis said “never accidental never.”

“Just expect euphoria," helium said laughing. "I deliberation possibly we're going to request immoderate ambulances connected tract due to the fact that radical are going to spontaneously combust from the excitement. And, they're playing successful a daylight event. They're gonna beryllium capable to marque oculus interaction with the audience. That's going to make a truly peculiar bond.”

Acts connected the festival's 14 stages usually play simultaneously opening erstwhile gates unfastened astatine 11 a.m. and continuing until the euphony ends astatine 7 p.m. But the different stages volition unopen down adjacent week erstwhile the Stones instrumentality the stage.

“We didn't privation to person 13 bare stages and nary radical successful beforehand of them erstwhile the Stones commencement singing favorites similar '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' and ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash,'" Davis said. “Everyone who bought a summons for that time chiefly bought 1 to spot The Stones.”

Davis said tickets for the festival's different days stay disposable and tin beryllium purchased online done their website.

Much of Jazz Fest celebrates the Indigenous euphony and civilization of New Orleans and Louisiana but the euphony encompasses astir each benignant imaginable: blues, R&B, gospel, Cajun, Zydeco, Afro-Caribbean, folk, Latin, rock, rap, modern and accepted jazz, country, bluegrass and everything successful between.

Colombia’s rhythms, from euphony to creation and food, besides volition beryllium highlighted this twelvemonth arsenic portion of the festival’s taste exchange. Close to 200 Colombian artists are scheduled to participate, including headliners Bomba Estéreo connected Saturday, ChocQuibTown’s pb vocalist Goyo successful a impermanent quality with section set ÌFÉ connected Sunday, and salsa legends Grupo Niche closing the solemnisation connected May 5.

And don’t hide the food. During the festival, nutrient disposable connected tract includes crawfish bread, pecan catfish meuniere and catfish almondine, cochon de lait and turducken po-boys, boudin, crawfish étouffée, jambalaya, crawfish Monica and shrimp and grits.