Festival favorites Flow Tribe bring a raucous, colorful energy and street parade feel to the Caribbean-funk-rock sound they’ve dubbed, “back-bone crackin’ music.” Flow Tribe was founded in 2004 by six students from New Orleans’ Brother Martin High School, but after graduati... Read more

Anaïs St. John was raised in a musical household and trained as an opera singer, singing mezzo-soprano with the New Orleans Opera. She branched out as a solo artist, blending jazz, blues, and R & B, inspired by iconic singers like Eartha Kitt and Lola Falana, and hometown h... Read more

Trombonist Glen David Andrews embodies the renaissance of the New Orleans brass band sound: rooted in brass and gospel traditions but with an ear to the future. Born in 1979, Andrews’ prolific musical family includes his brother Derrick Andrews, the snare drummer for the R... Read more

James Andrews is a vocalist, songwriter and trumpet legend from New Orleans. He hails from a musical family, the grandson of Jesse Hill and the brother of Trombone Shorty. A trumpeter and vocalist with a tone and voice as distinctive as Louis Armstrong, Andrews is one of th... Read more

The New Orleans Suspects offer high-energy rock and roll ala Little Feat meets swamp rock, and the since their inception in 2009 as a pick-up band at the Maple Leaf, the group has developed a devout following across the country. The Suspects include some of New Orleans’ fin... Read more

Erica Falls may be best known as the singer for Galactic, a spot she held for some five years, but the talented vocalist owns her own stage with a loyal following eager for her unique blend of neo-soul sounds, sassy stage presence, original tunes and arrangements, and impec... Read more

Backed by his band, Funky Nation, Sammie “Big Sam” Williams wields his trombone with a funk-driven, energetic authority that delights audiences from Frenchmen Street to France. Raised in the uptown Twelfth Ward and New Orleans East, an adolescent Williams ended up in the sc... Read more

The Bucktown Allstars are a New Orleans institution, known for their impeccable musicianship and high energy.  The horn-heavy party band offers up a crowd-pleasing setlist packed with classic R&B, 60’s hots, 70’s funk, and Crescent City flavors. The band has won a boatload ... Read more

Guitarist Leo Nocentelli reigns as one of the founding fathers of funk. The guitarist is the recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his work with The Meters, and he has recorded and performed with top artists such as Etta James, Dr. John, The Supremes, Jimmy B... Read more

John Mooney embodies the direct connection between today and the music of the blues’ founding fathers: Professor Longhair, and the Mississippi Delta bluesman Son House, who mentored a teenaged Mooney and fostered his driving slide style and vocal sound. Mooney was born in... Read more