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Music Lineup Announcement for the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival 2024
The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival returns to the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center on May 31 – June 1, 2024 with Indoor and Outdoor Performances
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW ORLEANS (May 15, 2024) – The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents the 2024 Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, celebrating the rich musical traditions of Southwestern Louisiana. This year, the Foundation is featuring Louisiana’s indigenous sounds both outdoors and indoors at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart Street in New Orleans.
On Saturday, June 1, 2024, the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival will be held outside in the parking lot of the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center. Waylon Thibodeaux, Rosie Ledet, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr., and Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie will perform. Doors open at 2:00pm and the first band starts at 3:00pm. Savory and cold treats will be available for purchase.
Free and open to the public. Limited seating will be available, first come, first served.
The festival kicks off with Sheryl Cormier & the Cajun Sounds and Jourdan Thibodeaux on Friday, May 31, 2024, indoors at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center. Doors open at 6pm and the concert begins promptly at 7pm.
Tickets are $10, available here.
Seating is limited, so please register in advance. All proceeds from this concert series directly support the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.
The concert will be livestreamed: jazzandheritage.org/live
live Music schedule
Friday, May 31
Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival Kickoff Concert with Sheryl Cormier & the Cajun Sounds and Jourdan Thibodeaux at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street)
Doors at 6:00pm
7:00pm to 8:00pm – Sheryl Cormier & the Cajun Sounds
8:30pm to 9:30pm – Jourdan Thibodeaux
Saturday, June 1
Free and Open to the Public – Doors open at 2:00pm
3:00pm to 4:00pm – Waylon Thibodeaux
4:30pm to 5:30pm – Rosie Ledet
6:00pm to 7:00pm – Rockin’ Dopsie Jr.
7:30pm to 8:30pm – Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie
The 2024 Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival is proudly sponsored by Cathead Vodka, ChillZone, Louisiana Division of the Arts, Louisiana Lottery, Oxbow Rum, Big Easy Cruise, Still Austin Gin, and Urban South Brewery.
About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation:
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation invests proceeds from Jazz Fest and additional funds that we raise for year-round programming in education, economic development and cultural enrichment. Education programs include the Don “Moose” Jamison Heritage School of Music, the Tom Dent Congo Square Lectures, the Class Got Brass competition presented by the Gia Maione Prima Foundation for school brass bands, a youth audio workshop program, youth vocal workshops, and more! Economic Development initiatives include the Community Partnership Grants, the Catapult Fund accelerator program and Sync Up entertainment industry workshops. Cultural enrichment programs include the Jazz & Heritage Concert Series and annual Foundation Festivals: the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival, the Congo Square Rhythms Festival, the Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival and the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival. Importantly, these are free programs that the Jazz and Heritage Foundation has developed over many years to ensure that we give back to Louisiana. The Jazz & Heritage Foundation also owns radio station WWOZ 90.7-FM and the Jazz & Heritage Archive. In late 2014, the Foundation opened the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center – an education and community facility named for the late Jazz Fest founder George Wein and his wife Joyce. In March of 2020, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation established the Jazz & Heritage Music Relief Fund – a statewide relief fund to support Louisiana musicians who were affected by the pandemic. In the last two years the Jazz & Heritage Foundation has been able to provide relief funds of more than $2 million dollars supporting musicians, music industry gig workers, Black Masking Indians and other indigenous cultural practitioners. To learn more about the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, please visit us online at www.jazzandheritage.org
MEDIA CONTACT
Baylee Badawy, Marketing & Communications Coordinator
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation
504-766-0671