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Jazz Fest 2013
10:41 am
Sat May 4, 2013

Jazz Fest Music Schedule For Saturday, May 4

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Your updated, complete music schedule for the second Saturday of Jazz Fest 2013!

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A Blog Supreme
4:03 am
Sat May 4, 2013

At Jazz Fest, Photographers Have A Culture All Their Own

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Little Freddie King at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2013, photographed by Skip Bolen.
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Little Freddie King at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2013.
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Skip Bolen says B.B. King is one of this year's most photogenic performers at the festival: "He has such great expressions."

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Trombone Shorty at Jazz Fest in 2011.
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Dave Matthews' rain-soaked set at Jazz Fest 2013.
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Skip Bolen has attended the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for years, competing with other photographers for the best shots — and forming relationships with performers in the process.
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Bolen shot one of Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews' earliest public performances at the 2001 Jazz Fest. Andrews' teacher Clyde Kerr can be seen at the far right.
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Originally published on Sat May 4, 2013 10:53 am

The 2013 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival wraps up Monday. This weekend and last, 12 stages have mixed such marquee names as Fleetwood Mac, Phoenix and Los Lobos with dozens of local bluesmen, soul belters and Cajun fiddle players.

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Jazz Fest 2013
2:03 pm
Fri May 3, 2013

Friday, May 3 — Jazz Fest Schedule

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The rain might have delayed the opening of Jazz Fest today, but everything is back on schedule! Here's your music lineup for Friday, May 3, 2013.

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Arts & Culture
1:33 pm
Fri May 3, 2013

Music Impresario George Wein Dedicates Center for Jazz Education

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George Wein, jazz musician and festival creator, at a ceremony to dedicate the George and Joyce Wein Jazz Heritage Center
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The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival continues its 44th year of music today at the Fair Grounds. This morning a new music education center was dedicated to one of the festival’s founders, George Wein, and his wife Joyce.

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Jazz Fest Minutes
11:29 am
Fri May 3, 2013

Jazz Fest Minutes: 'One Mo’ Time' With Actor Vernel Bagneris

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Vernel Bagneris
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The Show “One Mo’ Time” went from humble beginnings as a homemade New Orleans labor of love with a single scheduled performance to a worldwide theatrical sensation that ran for years. Its creator, New Orleans actor Vernel Bagneris, has loved the idea of putting on a show from way back.

“Cousins of mine still laugh at the fact that they used to come over and I’d put on a show for them and play a little accordion and single a little bit with the few chords I knew on a piano and do plays and make them all do parts,” Bagneris remembers.

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