New Orleans Jazz Fest 2019 Announced!!

Damn, man.  Their lineup poster always looks like the greatest festival of all time.  And then you realize that this lineup is spread out over like 8 different nights, so you aren't really getting this lineup if you buy tickets for a single weekend.  But still...  check out this lineup.



I mean, the Rolling Stones is already enough to want to try to go to this Fest.  All alone, that is huge.  But then Dave Matthews, Jimmy Buffett, Chris Stapleton, Van Morrison, Logic, The Revivalists (who are like 15 artists in!), Leon Bridges, Gary Clark Jr.!  Jimmy freaking Cliff and Ziggy Marley!  Indigo Girls!  Mavis Staples, and Gladys Knight, and Earth Wind and Fire and Chaka Khan and Herbie Hancock!  Freaking weird shit like Alanis Morissette and Tom Jones!  Better than Ezra!  Little Feat!  The Head and the Heart!  Marcia Ball and the Mavericks!

Its an outrageous lineup.  Although, as usual, you miss out on a ton of stuff if you can only pick one weekend.  If you pick weekend one, you would get Santana, The Revivalists, Jimmy Cliff, and Head & the Heart on Friday, Katy Perry, Leon Bridges, and Logic on Saturday, and Van Morrison, Indigo Girls, and Al Green on Sunday.  Not nearly as fabulous a lineup when split out.  The Stones are on the Thursday in between the two weekends, so if you tried to pull off a single weekend ticket, you wouldn't even catch their show.  Second weekend is pretty sick though, as you'll get Stapleton, Matthews, and Buffett as the number 1 bands each night - that is a super cool weekend of headliners.

Weird thing though, just looked at tickets and you have to buy them by the day - there are no three day passes without buying a VIP type experience.  Huh.  Nah, I don't think I'd make the trip for this, with how spread out all of the good stuff is, but sooner or later I need to make this pilgrimage to New Orleans.