New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

(Also called short Jazzfest ) The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is an annual festival in New Orleans that celebrates the music and culture of the city and Louisiana, especially jazz. It takes place on the weekends (Friday to Sunday) the last of April and first week of May.

Currently (2012 ) it takes place at the Fair Grounds Race Course ( a horse race track ). However, there are many different festivals in the rest of the center of New Orleans.

It is next to the Mardi Gras, a main tourist attraction and has popular festival character. In addition to jazz and Cajun music, bluegrass, rhythm & blues, zydeco, gospel, blues, rap, country, Afro-Caribbean folklore, Latin Music, rock and other typical local styles of music is presented. There are 12 main stages. There are also tents for children, information and Culinary ( Cajun cuisine).

It takes place since 1970 (at that time in Congo Square in Louis Armstrong Park), then organized by George Wein on behalf of the owners ' Association of New Orleans, who called the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation in which a part of the festival. Wine was supported at the instigation of the curator Dick Allen Allison Miner (1949-1995) and Quint Davis ( born 1947 ) from the Jazz Archive at Tulane University, the original musicians committed in black clubs in the city and street musicians (instead of in the tourist centers, including Bourbon Street ). Both are also involved later instrumental in the organization. Miner founded the Archive of New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. Quint Davis, who was then a student, and after the query of wine broke off his studies and was producer, is now (2012 ) the CEO of the Festival Society.