r/jazzfest
plan better for next year, how to know when Grand Marshall pass goes on sale
hello all my jazzfest peeps. We traveled to NO from the westcoast for the first weekend of jazzfest. I have not attended in over 20 years and wow it's changed. We want to go back next year but have a 4 day super pass so we don't have to play the chair game and have access to shade a maybe a bar. How do I find out when they go on sale - is there a mailing list or should I join a certain group like here on reddit or something similar?
Dresses and shirts I made for Jazz Fest this year.
There are a lot of great places to wear tie-dye, (for me, almost everywhere), and jazz fest is one of them! Did you see any of these out there? 🤞
Maggie Koerner, Anders Osborne, and Dave Malone....post fest festivities!
Between Mardis Gras celebrations back at home, in season crawfish boils and closing it out with a trip to Jazz Fest, even living back in NC Festival Season is my favorite time of the year. Between New Orleans festivities, March Madness, and the weather I just seem to be in my best mood this time of year.
Anyone else feel like festival season is their "happy time"?
Anybody been able to find a good recording of their set from Sunday? I know its still a bit early but was wondering if anyone has stumbled upon something better than some short YouTube crowd videos. I really wanted to see this show but got kinda locked in to the Tedeschi Trucks show at Gentilly. I don't regret my decision at all, that TTB set was one of the better Fest closers I've ever seen, but would really like to hear some of what I missed.
If not a recordings what about some reviews from somebody that was there?
Hawaiian shirt - looking for photos
After enjoying this year's Fest, I'm trying to collect photos of all the Jazz Fest Hawaiian shirts and need photos of the 1986 and 1993 shirts. If anyone has a photo to share or even a description it would be greatly appreciated. I've looked on Art4Now / Bayou Wear web site with no luck.
Did anyone find ADA accommodation wildly inflexible?
I have severe systemic Lupus and can't be in the sun for very long without seriously flaring. I made due with spf 70, UPF clothing and hat, huge umbrella and other stuff. I'd be lying if I said this didn't seriously heavily impact my ability to enjoy the non-tent shows (if the below photos here aren't enough evidence of that lol) . I use a cane for bad arthritis in my hips and was told I would not be allowed to be in the ADA area if I wasn't in a wheelchair.
I was offered a wheelchair but my 75 year old mother can't push me around and my using the wheelchair myself would A. put a lot of stress on my arms which aren't too hot either and I wouldn't be able to provide myself with enough sun shade while I was doing that.
My biggest frustration is that I was told over the phone that I would be accommodated and then was rejected accommodations when I arrived. If I'd known that, I might not have elected to go. I tried to hide my semi-misery from my mom so she could have a good time but I was pretty sick by the end of each day and was in full flare when I got home.
Did anyone else have this experience? I'm so disappointed as I've gone to jazz fest every year of my 39 years minus covid and this was my first Lupus fest.
edited to add photos