Full Weekend Schedule
*All events listed below are included in the weekend ticket. Individual night ticket options will be posted on or by April 1st and their availability will depend on where we’re at with venue capacities at that time. (Note: all competitors must hold a weekend pass.) Don’t forget to check out all the live music and cultural activities at French Quarter Fest during the day!

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THURSDAY APRIL 13TH
Welcome Party!
Time: 7pm-11pm
Location: Toulouse Theatre
Address: 615 Toulouse
Music: Tuba Skinny & Preservation Brass
Cost: TBA (included in weekend ticket)

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FRIDAY APRIL 14TH
Time: 7:30-Midnight
Location: Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Address: 925 Camp St (enter on Andrew Higgins)
Music: NOJO5
Contests/Entertainment: Showdown Battle Prelims, Quarter Finals, & Winners Bracket Semi Finals
Cost: $75 (included in weekend ticket)

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FRIDAY AFTER HOURS (Saturday morning)
Time: 12:30-3:30am
Location: TBA
Address: TBA
Music: James McClaskey & The Rhythm Band
Cost: TBA (included in weekend ticket)

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SATURDAY APRIL 15TH
Time: 7:30-Midnight
Location: Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Address: 925 Camp St (enter on Andrew Higgins)
Music: Mark Braud’s Jazz Giants
Contests/Entertainment: Solo Battle Prelims, Semi-Finals, & Finals
Cost: $75 (included in weekend ticket)

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SATURDAY AFTER HOURS (Sunday morning)
Time: 12:30-3:30am
Location: TBA
Address: TBA
Music: The Jump Hounds
Cost: TBA (included in weekend ticket)

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SUNDAY APRIL 16TH
Time: 7:30-Midnight
Location: Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Address: 925 Camp St (enter on Andrew Higgins)
Music: Wendell Brunious & The Dream Team
Contests/Entertainment: Showdown Battle Losers Bracket Semi Finals & Finals
Cost: $75 (included in weekend ticket)

Performers

Tuba Skinny

Tuba Skinny

Tuba Skinny is a traditional jazz street band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The ensemble draws its inspiration from the early jazz, ragtime, and blues music of the 1920s and 1930s.

Perservation Brass

Perservation Brass

The Preservation Brass is the resident brass band of New Orleans most treasured jazz venue, Preservation Hall

NOJO 5

NOJO 5

NOJO5 is a dynamic five-piece ensemble drawn from the full New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, led by Grammy®-winning drummer and artistic director Adonis Rose.

JM and the Rhythm Band

JM and the Rhythm Band

The Rhythm Band is dedicated to performing classic rhythm & blues in a unique, jazz-inflected style.

Mark Braud’s Jazz Giants

Mark Braud’s Jazz Giants

Born in New Orleans, Braud comes from a family of world-renowned musicians. Traditional jazz, R&B and the great American songbook inspire his engaging music. 

The Jump Hounds

The Jump Hounds

The Jump Hounds is a New Orleans-based sextet that specializes in ‘jump’, the jazz-based rhythm and blues

Wendell Brunious and the Dream Team

Wendell Brunious and the Dream Team

Brunious was born into a Louisiana Creole family, the son of Nazimova “Chinee” Santiago and John “Picket” Brunious, Sr., a trumpeter who studied at Juilliard and played with the Onward Brass Band, Young Tuxedo Brass Band, and Paul Barbarin, and who arranged for Billy Eckstine and Cab Calloway.