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JAZZ FEST CUBES ARE OUT!
Thursday, April 24, 2025 Festival Stage
11:15 am
Dave Jordan & the NIA 12:00 pm
Shell Gentilly Stage
11:20 am
Flow Tribe
12:45 pm
Bonerama
Ray Boudreaux 3:40 pm
WWOZ Jazz Tent
11:15 am
Loyola University New Orleans Jazz Ensemble 12:00 pm
5:00 pm
2:10 pm
The Iceman Special 3:10 pm
3:35 pm
Hot 8 Brass Band
7:00 pm
11:20 am
12:10 pm
12:20 pm
12:20 pm
LeTrainiump
Roderick Harper
1:10 pm
1:10 pm
1:30 pm
1:30 pm
Flagboy Giz & The Wild Tchoupitoulas 2:15 pm
Jeremy Davenport 2:30 pm
2:40 pm
Grupo Fantasma 3:35 pm
12:30 pm
Charlie Halloran 1:25 pm
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Bourbon St. attack response criticized
Jazz & Heritage Stage
Gospel Tent
11:20 am
Audrey Ferguson & The Voices of Distinction
The Mid-City Aces 12:05 pm
12:25 pm
Ryan Foret & Foret Tradition 1:20 pm
Mardi Gras Indians 12:00 pm
12:20 pm
Son del Coamil
11:30 am
11:55 am
Kid Charleroi
1:45 pm
1:40 pm
1:35 pm
Leroy Jones & New Orleans Finest
Waylon Thibodeaux
Forgotten Souls
2:40 pm
2:40 pm
2:35 pm
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:55 pm
3:05 pm
The Pfister Sisters' Tribute to The Boswell Sisters
2:55 pm
Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole 3:55 pm
The Bester Singers and The Dynamic Smooth Family of Slidell 12:50 pm
1:00 pm
1:15 pm
1:45 pm
Little Freddie King Blues Band
Expedia Cultural Exchange Pavilion Stage
Melvin "Maestro" Winfield Jr. & The Glory Chorale Community Choir
12:15 pm
12:35 pm
Los Tremolo Kings feat. Margie Perez
1:45 pm
1:55 pm
Angels of Light Gospel Singers
Mixanteña de Santa Cecilia
1:40 pm
1:45 pm
2:30 pm
2:35 pm
2:45 pm
2:55 pm
Papo y Son Mandao
Lyle Henderson & Emmanu-EL 3:30 pm
2:55 pm
Papa Mali's Shantytown Underground 3:45 pm
3:50 pm
4:10 pm
Lisa Knowles-Smith & The Brown Singers
of Mexico
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
5:15 pm
4:20 pm
Dee Dee Bridgewater with Bill Charlap
Robert Jon & The Wreck 5:15 pm
5:30 pm
Goose
5:55 pm
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra 7:00 pm
4:20 pm
4:30 pm
Gerald French & The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band 5:30 pm
5:45 pm
5:20 pm
5:45 pm
5:50 pm
Shemekia Copeland
Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys
Stephen Foster & the New Orleans Jazz Ramblers
Sam Bush
Sons of Jazz Brass Band
4:50 pm
12:00 pm
John Mooney Trio 12:45 pm
1:10 pm
Caesar Brothers FunkBox
5:05 pm
Joanna Hale-McGill
5:20 pm
5:50 pm
Anna Moss
2:55 pm
1:45 pm
Ann Savoy & Another
4:20 pm
4:55 pm
Interviewer:
Keith Spera
2:35 pm
2:45 pm
Heart
3:00 pm
Lady Chops
3:00 pm
New Orleans Saxophone Master
Breeze Cayolle Interviewer:
3:35 pm
3:45 pm
Bryan Wagner
4:15 pm
Sabine McCalla
ISL Circus Arts Kids
Steve Hochman
3:45 pm
Mitch Woods Solo
4:00 pm
4:20 pm
Parade:4:30 - 4:45 pm
Grupo Fantasma
2:00 pm
Karl Denson
Native American Lore
3:10 pm
Mixanteña de Santa Cecilia
Interviewer:
Derek Huston
presents
2:20 pm
3:15 pm
Son del Coamil
1:00 pm
Swamp Pop in the “Promised Land”
Johnnie Allan
1:30 pm
1:50 pm
Gray Hawk
4:45 pm
EL Dusty & The Homies
Interviewer: 4:45 pm
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
6:00 pm
Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church Mass Choir
12:40 pm
Tchefunky Playground
The Tangiers Combo
2:10 pm
EL Dusty & The Homies
4:05 pm
Gregg Martinez & the Delta Kings with guest Johnnie Allan 5:00 pm
5:10 pm
5:35 pm
6:35 pm
6:40 pm
7:00 pm
Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage
11:30 am Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School Jazz Orchestra and Performing Arts Ensemble 12:15 pm
1:55 pm
of Mexico
3:50 pm
4:10 pm
12:15 pm
12:40 pm
1:20 pm
Sabine McCalla
Prophetess Flora and The
11:30 am
Mariachi en Nueva Orleans Los Viajeros
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Ochsner Children's Tent
Rhythmpourium Tent
11:15 am
Black Foot Hunters
2:50 pm
Stanton Moore featuring David Torkanowsky and James Singleton
Lagniappe Stage
presented by
Morris Bart
Celebrates Mexico
11:15 am
John Mooney & Bluesiana
6:15 pm
6:45 pm
PARADES:12:15 pm - Andrews Brass Band with Ice 1:20 pm - Big Chief Dow & the TimbuktuDivas, and Nkrumah Better Boys Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs Warriors Black Masking Indians and 2:00 pm - Black Mohawk and Young Seminole Hunters Mardi Gras Indians Cheyenne Mardi Gras Indians 2:50 pm - One Mind Brass Band with 3:45 pm - Mexican Parade featuring Lady Pigeon Town Steppers and Bad Boyz Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs Mixanteña de Santa Cecilia
N O L A.C O M
Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage
12:05 pm
12:25 pm
Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88's
4:05 pm
5:45 pm
John Fogerty
Economy Hall Tent
Kid Simmons’ Local International Allstars
4:15 pm
5:10 pm
5:30 pm
12:05 pm
1:25 pm 1:45 pm
3:50 pm 4:00 pm
Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen
Blues Tent
11:15 am
Andy J. Forest & The Swampcrawlers
12:20 pm
12:20 pm
1:10 pm
1:30 pm
Rockin' Dopsie Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters
2:45 pm
11:15 am
Denisia 12:00 pm
Kinfolk Brass Band
2:25 pm
Congo Square Stage
7:00 pm
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FOLKLIFE STAGE in LOUISIANA FOLKLIFE VILLAGE: 12:05, 1:20, and 3:55 pm - Pow Wow presentations with
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Council bans city-funded alcohol on trips Move part of political backlash to mayor’s travel spending
BY JAMES FINN Staff writer
The New Orleans City Council has banned city officials from buying alcohol on the city’s dime, part of a broader effort to restrict Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s travel spending amid a bitter conflict between the executive and legislative branches of city government. The ordinance prohibits employees from buying or collecting reimbursements for alcohol purchased on trips. City codes and policies had not previously said Cantrell whether alcohol can be expensed or not, but Louisiana law bars such reimbursements for state workers. The council deliberated for less than a minute Thursday before approving the ordinance carried by council Vice President Helena Moreno on a 6-0
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STAFF FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER
Public safety consultants said a ‘sparse’ and ‘overstretched’ New Orleans Police Department is limited in its ability to gather the sort of intelligence that would prevent future attacks in the aftermath of a deadly New year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street.
Emails from outside consultants cite poor communication, intelligence gaps
BY JOSEPH CRANNEY, JEFF ADELSON and BEN MYERS Staff writers
Public safety consultants working behind closed doors to examine the city of New Orleans’ emergency tactics flagged communication breakdowns that persisted weeks after the deadly New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street, newly released emails show. Those consultants also identified a “sparse” and “overstretched” New Orleans Police Department limited in its ability to gather the sort of intelligence that would prevent future
attacks. They further recommended that the city empower its officers to search video surveillance more easily. In late January, Bill Bratton, a former New York City Police Department commissioner hired to assess the city’s weaknesses, had identified a lack of coordination among the top brass of the Bratton NOPD, the city’s homeland security department and Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s office as the city worked to prepare for Super Bowl LIX and Mardi Gras. “At the moment it feels as if each
N.O. judge faces possible suspension BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer
entity is doing its ‘own thing,’ ” Bratton wrote in a Jan. 23 email to NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick responded with her own frustration that she was left out of another city agency’s plans to add security barriers to other pedestrian hot spots in New Orleans, including Frenchmen Street and Jackson Square. Ultimately, New Orleans did successfully coordinate security for the
A New Orleans judge is facing a potentially lengthy suspension over a pair of attack ads and other alleged misdeeds during her campaign nearly five years ago. Orleans Parish Civil District Judge Jennifer Medley is set to go before the Louisiana Judiciary Commission on Friday to answer to four counts of ethical miscon- Medley duct, all from a gritty run for office in 2020 that was backed by trash magnate Sidney Torres IV. The Office of Special Counsel, which prosecutes
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ä See JUDGE, page 4A
Book Festival guest Goldberg discusses Signal chat controversy BY RICH COLLINS
Staff writer
Tulane University grabbed a small spot in the national conversation over the Trump administration’s Signal chat leak on Thursday as journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, discussed his blockbuster article and its implications for U.S. security at the New Orleans Book Festival. Goldberg, who on Monday pub-
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lished his account of how he was inadvertently added to a group chat that top U.S. officials were using to discuss military strikes against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen, said the administration’s reaction to his article led him to release nearly the full transcript two days later.
“This was a serious breach of national security,” Goldberg said. “They had an opportunity to accept that they made a mistake, tell us how they’re going to fix the mistake and move on. Instead, they attacked the messenger, which is part of the playbook.” Goldberg said if Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and others hadn’t reacted the way they did, he wouldn’t have published the rest of
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, speaks at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane on Thursday. STAFF PHOTO By BRETT DUKE
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