Jazz Fest in New Orleans

Every year, Jazz Fest brings tens of thousands of visitors to New Orleans, and a nudge to the city's economy. As Katy Reckdahl writes in today's Times-Picayune, this year's festival presents an historic gathering of Haitian musicians. Jazz fest (and affiliated events around the city) present more music, arts and culture then we could ever discuss here, but we will highlight the list of authors appearing at the Jazz Fest Book Tent, which includes some friends of Louisiana Justice Institute:

Friday, April 29
12:00pm: Tom Jacobsen: Traditional New Orleans Jazz : Conversations With the Men Who Make the Music
1:00pm: Irvin Mayfield: Love Letter To New Orleans
3:00pm: Denise McConduit: DJ and the Debutante Ball
4:00pm: Diane De Las Casas: There's a Dragon in the Library

Saturday, April 30
12:00pm: John Swensen: New Atlantis: Musicians Battle For the Survival of New Orleans
2:00pm: Jason Berry:Earl Long In Purgatory & Up From the Cradle of Jazz
3:00pm: Troy Gilbert: Cafe Degas & Dinner With Tennessee
4:00pm: Freddi Williams Evans: Congo Square

Sunday, May 1
12:00pm: Yvonne Perret: Yat Wit
1:00pm: Eve Abrams: Preservation Hall
2:00pm: Cornell Landry: One Dat, Two Dat, Are You A Who Dat!, Happy Jazz Fest & Goodnight Nola
3:00pm: Moose Jackson: Loup Garou
5:00pm: Jordan Flaherty: Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six

Thursday, May 5
12:00pm: George Bishop: Letter to my Daughter
1:00pm: Earl Higgins: Metairie, Ames High & Joy of Y'at Catholicism
2:00pm: Cornell Landry: One Dat, Two Dat, Are You A Who Dat!, Happy Jazz Fest & Goodnight NOLA
3:00pm: Bud Faust: Great Moments in New Orleans – Volumes 1 & 2
4:00pm: Sean Yseult: I'm in the Band

Friday, May 6
12:00pm: Tom Jacobsen: Traditional New Orleans Jazz : Conversations With the Men Who Make the Music
2:00pm: Tristan Thomas, Ann Gileson, Catherine Burke: How to Rebuild A City
3:00pm: Denise McConduit: DJ and the Debutante Ball
4:00pm: Troy Gilbert: Cafe Degas & Dinner With Tennessee

Saturday, May 7
12:00pm: John Swensen: New Atlantis: Musicians Battle For the Survival of New Orleans
1:00pm: Dan Baum: Nine Lives
2:00pm: Stephanie Bruno: New Orleans Streets
3:00pm: Jessica Harris: High on the Hog
4:00pm: Ian McNulty: Louisiana Rambles
5:00pm: Richard Campanella: Lincoln In New Orleans

Sunday, May 8
1:00pm: Irvin Mayfield: Love Letter To New Orleans
2:00pm: Johnette Downing: The Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Bugs
3:00pm: Eve Abrams: Preservation Hall
4:00pm: Jay Mazza and Reggie Scanlan: I’ve Got the Fish in the Head

Pictured above: Boukman Eksperyans.