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Jazz Fest
Preservation Hall West coming soon to the Mission in SF!
It’s been just a little over eight months since I took my first trip ever to New Orleans for Jazz Fest 2011, and I’m definitely planning on making a return trek this year to see this year’s festival as well. The lineup is too good (always), and the possibility of some late-night shows that you can’t see anywhere else is just too good to pass up. Unfortunately my trip last year was jam-packed and it didn’t leave enough time to see absolutely everything I wanted to see while I was in the city. One of those spots was Tipitina’s (blasphemous, I know) and one of the spots was Preservation Hall (a tough ticket during the fest no matter who is playing). Those are two must-see’s this time around.
But this post is about Preservation Hall specifically, and more specifically about me getting the good word sent my way that the purveyor of Preservation Hall is putting the final touches on opening up Preservation Hall West in San Francisco’s Mission district, right on Valencia Street… >>>
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Big Easy music fans in the Big Apple have a chance to le bon temps roule during this year’s Mardi Gras season thanks to this multi-night showcase by NYC’s purveyors of live NOLA funk. The 6th Annual NOLAFUNK.com Mardi Gras Ball(s) event will take place at New York’s Hiro Ballroom on February 18. Artists performing at the two-day event include Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers, Bonerama, Outer Borough Brass Band and DJ Cochon de Lait. Benevento will perform with Bonerama throughout their set as he did at Jazz Fest this past year. Nolafunk.com will also host the Mardi Gras (other) Ball at the Hiro on February 19. Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers, Bonerama plus Marco and other special guests will perform at that event as well.
Last year, Jazz Fest released its lineup in mid-January, about a month later than the year prior and the local competitor taking place two weeks and 200 miles away down the coast came out with their sterling 2011 lineup a couple weeks later on February 1st. Judging by the facts that (a) last year’s lineup came out this week and (2) that the festival is a mere 3.5 months away, the lineup should be arriving any day now…right?
After playing four festival-related one-off shows last year (two at SF’s Outside Lands, Bonnaroo and Voodoo Experience), the four original members of The Meters have announced their first New Orleans club gig in 30 years for a second Saturday late night show during Jazz Fest on May 5th at The Howlin’ Wolf. Although it still seems a long way out, the Jazz Fest late night schedule is already starting to take shape and this will almost undoubtedly be the toughest late night ticket of the whole fest. We will let you know when ticket information comes about for what should be one of the more memorable late nights in recent JF history.
Check out LMB NOLA for a video playlist from the daily schedule of this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest (click the play button next to a link to start it off!).
Bruce Springsteen @ Jazz Fest 2006 || Photo by Michael Weintrob / JamBase
More colossal news coming in today for Jazz Fest 2012 as organizers announced the addition of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to close out the first weekend of the Festival on Sunday, April 29. This news comes the day after it was announced that Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder will play a solo show on Thursday, May 3. Bruce’s return had been speculated for months after he revealed that the band would be returning to the road after the loss of saxophonist Clarence Clemons in summer 2011 to tour in support of their new album Wrecking Ball which will be out in early-March. Additionally, now that the talent lineups (subject to change of course) are locked up, NOJHF announced the daily schedules for this year’s festival, enabling out-of-towner fans and to start making some concrete plans and Jazz Fest loyalists amongst the local crowd to decide how many days off will be necessary this year.
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Eddie Vedder just announced a set of spring tour dates with an appearance at Jazz Fest 2012 part of the highlights! He slayed it on the last Portlandia, too…
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