Schedule:

10am: Jazz Mass presented by Rhodes Funeral Home St. Augustine Church - Parish Hall 1210 Governor Nicholls Street, New Orleans, LA 70116

PosiGen Solar Stage - Esplanade Avenue

12:00 pm - 1:10 pm: Al "Lil Fats" Jackson
Presented by Danny & Alana Wolfe

1:30 pm - 2:40 pm: Doreen's Jazz

3:00 pm - 4:10 pm: Detroit Brooks with Special Guest Charmaine Neville
Detroit Brooks with Special Guest Charmaine Neville

4:40 pm - 5:50 pm: Shannon Powell's Traditional All-Star Band
Shannon Powell's Traditional All-Star Band | Presented by Sal Borelli

6:20 pm - 7:50 pm: Brass-A-Holics with Flagboy Giz
Brass-A-Holics with Flagboy Giz

Fidelity Bank Stage - Barrack's Street

12:20 pm - 1:30 pm: John Boutté

1:50 pm - 3:00 pm: Steve Lands and Kosmi(k)rewe

3:30 pm - 4:40 pm: Wendell Brunious

5:00 pm - 6:20 pm: The Original Pinettes Brass Band

6:40 pm - 8:00 pm: Kermit Ruffins tribute to Louis Armstrong

The Satchmo Legacy Stage in Memory of Joni Berry

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: "Black and Blue": Louis Armstrong and the American Dream
by Robert Cataloti | This discussion explores the origin of "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" and Armstrong's reworked version, making it the first major racial protest song in American popular music.

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm: Louis Armstrong and Panama Al Brown: Muses of the Avant-Garde Movement in 1930's Paris
by Ariel Perez Price | Using their encounter in Paris in 1934 as a starting point, the presentation seeks to explore parallels between the lives of Louis Armstrong and Panama Al Brown, the first Latin American World Boxing Champion.

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm: Roger Lewis, interviewed by David Kunian
Roger Lewis, founding Dirty Dozen Brass Band member, sits down with David Kunian, Curator of the New Orleans Jazz Museum, to talk about his storied life in music.

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm: Home Movies: Louis Armstrong's New York City 1956 - 1963
by Catherine Russell & Paul Kahn | This discussion forms a fascinating picture of a musician's life in New York City from 1956 through 1963 through 8mm film home movies.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Louis in London
by Ricky Riccardi | The most talked-about Armstrong release of 2024 is Verve's Louis in London, a dazzling set of live recordings capturing the "last hurrah" of Armstrong's storied career.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Piano Sessions

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Capt. John Royen
Presented by New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Rickie Monie & Jamil Sharif
Presented by New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Steve Pistorius with Charlie Halloran
Steve Pistorius with Charlie Halloran | Presented by New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park