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neworleansonline.com wrote:The lineup for this year's 45th annual JazzFest has been announced and it's another stellar year for one of the nation's top-rated musical events. Some of the biggest names on today's music scene, representing nearly every genre of popular music, will be coming to the Crescent City for the two-weekend, seven-day New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival at the historic Fair Grounds Race Course this spring.

This year's Jazz Fest has everyone's favorite genre, including country, gospel, blues, zydeco, R&B, rock and roll, and of course, Jazz.

neworleansonline.com wrote:Modern Jazz, Brass Bands, Mardi Gras Indians and More

Representing the festival's namesake genre are some of the most prominent performers in modern jazz, including saxophonists Pharaoh Sanders and Donald Harrison, organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, trumpeters Terence Blanchard and Nicholas Payton and vocalists Rachelle Farrell and Al Jarreau. Rene Marie will offer a tribute to the late jazz vocalist Eartha Kitt on Saturday, April 26.

There will also be plenty of the traditional brass bands that made New Orleans famous. Among them are Rebirth, Hot 8, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Dirty Dozen, Storyville Stompers and the Palm Court Jazz Band with legendary trumpeter Lionel Ferbos who still has his chops at 102 years of age! . . .

For a full day-by-day lineup visit http://www.nojazzfest.com. Go to the "Music" pull-down menu and click on each individual day. That will tell you who is playing on which day. However, the "JazzFest Cubes," listing the stages and tents where the various acts will be performing, have not yet been finalized. Keep checking back with the JazzFest website for that updated information.

Check out the full day-by-day lineup and a complete alphabetical listing of performers online.