New orleans jazz fest

What's the best New Orleans Jazz Fest poster of all time? From the late Bruce Brice's charmingly spare pen and ink rendering of the Congo Square festival site in 1970 to action painter Randy 'Frenchy' Frechette's, cobalt-blue portrait of Big Chief Theodore Emile 'Bo' Dollis, which can be viewed with 3-D glasses, there has been plenty of latitude in design.

Learn to navigate and plan for one of New Orleans’ largest and most popular festivals: Jazz Fest.

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What's the best New Orleans Jazz Fest poster of all time? From the late Bruce Brice's charmingly spare pen and ink rendering of the Congo Square festival site in 1970 to action painter Randy "Frenchy" Frechette's, cobalt-blue portrait of Big Chief Theodore Emile "Bo" Dollis, which can be viewed with 3-D glasses, there has been plenty of latitude in design.

Jazz Fest at 50: The Stubbornness and Joy of New Orleans

Booth at Jazz Fest - New Orleans

I'll never forget our first trip to Jazz Fest. I was sitting by a local woman in the Jazz Tent waiting for a show. She turned to me and asked what we had eaten that day. I said, "Oh, we ate before we got here." Her eyes got wide and she preceded to school us on the role of food a

New Orlean Jazz Fest

The 2016 Jazz Fest poster, by Paul Rogers, is titled “House of Swing: Portrait of the First Family of Jazz” and depicts members of the Marsalis family playing their respective instruments in the lighted windows of a New Orleans mansion.