NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An extra day and the lure of an appearance by the Rolling Stones pushed attendance at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to a half a million people, organizers said Monday.
That was the second highest attendance in the festival’s history — just behind the 600,000 attendees in 2001. In 2023, more than 460,000 people passed through the festival’s gates.
“This year’s Festival presented as plainly as ever the beauty of Jazz Fest,” festival producer Quint Davis said in a statement. “Watching the Rolling Stones perform with New Orleans and Louisiana stars Irma Thomas and Dwayne Dopsie was to witness the power of the Festival to demonstrate the connection of our culture to some of the greatest music of our time.”
The historic, sold-out appearance of the Rolling Stones last week was the triumphant conclusion of a multi-year effort to bring the band to the event, after cancellations in 2019 and 2021. Few festival performances have been more anticipated, and even fewer, if any, better received by fans, Davis said in a statement.
Related articles:
Related suggestion:
Mexican volunteer searchers say they've found a clandestine crematorium in Mexico CityGreene King is closing its 200NHS breached mixedNews organizations have trust issues as they gear up to cover another election, a poll findsRed Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey to step down from F1 teamPaul Auster, prolific and experimental man of letters and filmmaker, dies at 77Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey to step down from F1 teamEcuador defends raid on the Mexican Embassy and tells top UN court it acted to take in a criminalText of the policy statement the Federal Reserve released WednesdayHow to ensure your iPhone alarm goes off
0.1276s , 6500.71875 kb
Copyright © 2024 Powered by Lured by Rolling Stones performance, half ,Global Grid news portal