Four days of free music fill riverfront park
The Super Bowl is the largest sports event in the nation, and all eyes will be fixed on football come Sunday. But in the days leading up to the main event, New Orleans welcomes guests and locals with a four-day festival of live music and food at Woldenberg Park on the Mississippi River, known this week as Super Bowl Boulevard. The irresistable, Jazzfest-worthy lineup gives visitors another reason to fall in love with their host city, and locals another reason to be glad we live here.
THURSDAY
NFC Stage
5:40 p.m.: Stooges Brass Band
8:40 p.m.: Bonerama
AFC Stage
5 p.m.: Lyle Henderson and Emanu-EL
7:20 p.m.: Amanda Shaw and The Cute Guys
North End Zone Stage
5 p.m., 7:20 p.m.: Original Dixieland Jazz Band
6 p.m.: Hot Club of New Orleans
8:40 p.m.: Stooges Brass Band
South End Zone Stage
5 p.m.: Cameron Dupuy and The Cajun Troubadours
6 p.m., 7:20 p.m.: High Ground Drifters Bluegrass Band
8:40 p.m.: Hot Club of New Orleans
FRIDAY
NFC Stage
11 a.m.: Lagniappe Brass Band
1:30 p.m.: TBC Brass Band
4 p.m.: The Iguanas
6:30 p.m.: Dwayne Dopsie and The Zydeco Hellraisers
9:15 p.m.: Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue
AFC Stage
12:15 p.m.: Gal Holiday and The Honky Tonk Revue
2:45 p.m.: James Andrews
5:15 p.m.: Pine Leaf Boys
7:45 p.m.: Walter “Wolfman” Washington and The Roadmasters
North End Zone Stage
10:15 a.m., 11:40 a.m.: Tuba Skinny
1:05 p.m.: Lagniappe Brass Band
2:40 p.m., 5:50 p.m.: Ingrid Lucia
4:05 p.m.: Barbara Shorts
7:15 p.m.: James Andrews
8:55 p.m.: Leo Jackson and The Melody Clouds
South End Zone Stage
10:30 a.m.: TBC Brass Band
Noon, 1:35 p.m.: The Palmetto Bug Stompers
3:15 p.m.: Gal Holiday and The Honky Tonk Revue
5:05 p.m.: Mem Shannon
6:55 p.m.: The Iguanas
8:35 p.m.: Pine Leaf Boys
SATURDAY
NFC Stage
12:15 p.m.: John Mooney
3 p.m.: Sunpie and The LA Sunspots
5:45 p.m.: Tab Benoit
8:30 p.m.: Rebirth Brass Band
AFC Stage
11 am: Meschiya Lake
1:30 p.m.: Creole String Beans
4:15 p.m.: Lost Bayou Ramblers
7 p.m.: Roddie Romero and The Hub-City Allstars
North End Zone Stage
10:45 a.m., 12:25 p.m.: Mahogany Brass Band
2:05 p.m.: Meschiya Lake
3:40 p.m.: John Mooney
5:30 p.m., 8:25 p.m.: Viváz
7:10 p.m.: Betty Winn and One A-Chord
South End Zone Stage
10:45 a.m., 1:55 p.m.: Lars Edegran’s New Orleans Jazz Band
12:20 p.m., 3:30 p.m.: Kristin Diable
5:05 p.m., 8:25 p.m.: Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band
6:45 p.m.: Sunpie and The LA Sunspots
SUNDAY
NFC Stage
10:10 a.m., 11:10 a.m.: Cynthia Girtley’s Gospel
Noon: Soul Rebels
AFC Stage
10:40 a.m.: Charmaine Neville Band
12:30 p.m.: Papa Grows Funk
North End Zone Stage
10:15 a.m., 12:55 p.m.: Treme Brass Band
11:25 a.m.: Tim Laughlin
South End Zone Stage
10:15 a.m., 1 p.m.: Washboard Chaz Blues Trio
11:30 a.m.: David Doucet Cajun Trio