Playlist for the New Orleans Jazz Fest (First Weekend)

We continue to celebrate festival season in New Orleans with our friends at MySpiltMilk.com. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell starts on Friday, April 29, and we have more than two hours of music by people who will play this year with one exception, Les Filles de Illighadad, who will play at New Orleans Airlift’s Music Box Village on Saturday night.

If you’re here in New Orleans, we hope we’ll see you at the Fair Grounds and at some of these shows. If you’re not, we hope this helps you feel connected to one of the most eclectic mixes of music we’ve seen staged at one festival. Here in New Orleans, it doesn’t necessarily seem that unusual, but pulled into a playlist, the magic of breadth of music we have access to becomes clearer.

If you see any of these acts at Jazz Fest, let us know how it went. The only thing better than good music is sharing it with friends.

“Musica” (feat. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah) - The Soul Rebels - Saturday, Shell Gentilly Stage, 4:05p
“No ID” - Tank And The Bangas - Saturday, Congo Square Stage, 3:50p
“He’s a King” - Lulu and the Broadsides - Saturday, Lagniappe Stage, 4:15p
“Eghass Malan” - Les Filles de Illighadad - Saturday, The Music Box Village, 8p
“Love Drug” - Maggie Koerner - Sunday, Shell Gentilly Stage, 12p
Dance Until the Dawn” - Water Seed - Saturday, Congo Square Stage, 12:45p
“Pressure” (Afriqua remix) - Dawn Richard - Friday, Congo Square Stage, 12:20p
“One Shoe” - Lilli Lewis - Friday, Lagniappe Stage, 4:10p
“Waltz” (feat. Shaun Martin) - Naughty Professor - Friday, Shell Gentilly Stage, 11:20a
“The Man Who Sold the World” - Debbie Davis & Josh Paxton - Sunday, AARP Rhythmporium, 4:15p
“Tu Aimes Danser” - Kizaba - Friday, Festival Stage, 11:20a; Cultural Exchange Pavilion, 2p
“Toast” - Boyfriend - Friday, Shell Gentilly Stage, 3:40p
“Take it Back” (feat. Big Freedia) - Sweet Crude - Friday, Shell Gentilly Stage, 2:05p
“No Quiero Chin Chin” - Arturo Sandoval - Friday, WWOZ Jazz Tent, 5:40p
“Pump tha Party” - Partners-N-Crime - Friday, Congo Square Stage, 2:45p
“My Peace” (feat. Mr. Talkbox) - PJ Morton & JoJo - Friday, Congo Square, 4:05p
“I Dare You” (feat. The E-Collective and Turtle Island String Quartet) - Terence Blanchard - Sunday, WWOZ Jazz Tent, 4p
“Everything New (Sessions)” - John Mark McMillan & The War and Treaty - Friday, Blues Tent, 5:40p
“Fort Dimanche” - Leyla McCalla - Friday, Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage, 1:40p
“It Won’t Be Long” - Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys - Friday, Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage, 5:55p
“79ers Bout to Blow” - 79ers Gang - Friday, Cultural Exchange Pavilion, 12:45p; Jazz & Heritage Stage, 3p
“Imajghane” - Bombino - Friday, Blues Tent, 1:35p; Cultural Exchange Pavilion, 4:45p
“Tell Me What’s on Your Mind” - Cyril Neville - Saturday, Festival Stage, 2:05p
“Creamsicle” - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Saturday, Shell Gentilly Stage, 5:40p
“Oaxaca Love Song 2” - Las Cafeteras - Sunday, Cultural Exchange Pavilion, 2p; Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage, 4:30p
“Bosco Stomp/New Iberia Haircut” - Lost Bayou Ramblers - Saturday, Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage, 1:45p
“Hang it High, Hang it Low” - Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-Chas - Saturday, Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage, 6p
“Mizik Sa Yo” (feat. King James & the Special Men) - Saturday, Jazz & Heritage Stage, 1:40p; Cultural Exchange Pavilion, 4:45p
“How Many Times” - Esther Rose - Saturday, Lagniappe Stage, 11:30p
“Blue Steel” - Daniel Lanois - Sunday, Lagniappe Stage, 3p
“Dostochka” - DakhaBrakha - Saturday, Cultural Exchange Pavilion, 1:40p
“Where Do We Go from Here” - Dumpstaphunk - Sunday, Festival Stage, 3:35p
“When You Get Back” - Jon Cleary - Sunday, Shell Gentilly Stage, 2:45p
“I and Love and You” - The Avett Brothers - Sunday, Shell Gentilly Stage, 5:40p
“Calculadora” - Son Rompe Pera - Sunday, Jazz & Heritage Stage, 1:40p; Cultural Exchange Pavilion, 4:45p