{"id":2397009,"date":"2026-05-01T01:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2397009"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:03:47","slug":"new-orleans-jazz-fest-announces-thursday-lineup-changes-louisiana-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-orleans-jazz-fest-announces-thursday-lineup-changes-louisiana-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Jazz Fest announces Thursday lineup changes | Louisiana Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Editor’s note: The festival shut down around 3:30 p.m. Thursday as a strong storm cell was headed toward the area, organizers said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

As a storm front moves slowly toward New Orleans, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has announced several changes to its Thursday schedule.<\/p>\n

The Festival Stage headliner and jam band favorite Widespread panic moved up to 2 p.m., and Gentilly Stage headliner Lake Street Dive moved to 2:20 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All stages are scheduled to wrap performances by around 5 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Congo Stage headliner Leela James is canceled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lettuce, a Massachusetts jazz-funk band with a jam following, was moved to 12:15 p.m. also at the Festival Stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New Orleans indie pop band Sweet Crude announced their set at the Gentilly was canceled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Canceled at the Festival Stage are The Iceman Special and Zigaboo Modeliste Funk Revue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

View the new updated schedule at\u00a0nojazzfest.com\/music-schedule\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thursday, often known as Locals Thursday, is the first day of the festival\u2019s second weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Forecasters with the National Weather Service said the New Orleans area will see scattered thunderstorms in the late morning through the afternoon Thursday. Rainfall totals are expected to reach 1-3 inches by Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The front is forecast to pass by late Saturday and cool things off. Sunday should be dry with an enjoyable highs in the low 70s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nola.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: The festival shut down around 3:30 p.m. Thursday as a strong storm cell was headed toward the area, organizers said.\u00a0 As a storm front moves slowly toward New Orleans, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has announced several changes to its Thursday schedule. The Festival Stage headliner and jam band favorite Widespread […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2397010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[459407],"class_list":["post-2397009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-jazz_fest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/New-Orleans-Jazz-Fest-announces-Thursday-lineup-changes-Louisiana.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397011,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397009\/revisions\/2397011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}