2009 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - Weekend One Music Lineup

40th Anniversary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Weekend One Music Lineup
April 24 - 26, 2009

Friday, April 24
Wynton Marsalis, Joe Cocker, Spoon, Drive-By Truckers and Booker T., Henry Butler, Tab Benoit, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys, Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band, Marc Broussard, Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings, Yacub Addy & Odadaa! of Ghana and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Donald Harrison, Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters, Tribute to Mahalia Jackson feat. Irma Thomas, Mavis Staples, and Pamela Landrum, Warren Storm, Willie Tee & Cypress Band feat. Tommy McLain and T K Hulin, Benjy Davis Project, The Vettes, Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience, Ladysmith Redlions of South Africa, Chris Smither, Spencer Bohren, Mem Shannon & the Membership, MyNameisJohnMichael, Willis Prudhomme & Zydeco Express, Freedia and Nobi, Rockin’ Tabby Thomas, Leroy Jones presents the Fairview Brass Band Reunion Tribute to Danny Barker, Val & the Love Alive Fellowship Choir, Marlon Jordan, DJ Hektik & the New Orleans Society of Dance, Tommy Sancton Quartet feat. David Paquette, David Egan, Gospel Soul Children, Topsy Chapman, McDonogh #35 High School Gospel Choir, Christian Serpas & Ghost Town, 19th Street Red Blues Band, Hadley Castille & the Sharecropper Band, Water Seed, High Ground Drifters Bluegrass Band, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indians, June Gardner & the Fellas, Real Untouchables Brass Band, New Orleans Night Crawlers Brass Band, Sophisticated Ladies feat. Barbara Shorts, Leslie Smith, Cindy Scott, and Judy Spellman, Connie Jones, New Orleans Spiritualettes, Kumbuka African Drum & Dance Collective, Semolian Warriors Mardi Gras Indians, Gringo do Choro, Native Nations Intertribal with Hoop Dancer Lyndon Alec, Fred Dupin’s New Bumpers Revival Jazz Band of France, Smitty Dee’s Brass Band, Comanche Hunters Mardi Gras Indians, Como Now, Donnie, Second Mount Carmel Gospel Choir, Keep N it Real, Single Ladies, Family Ties, and Big Nine Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, Casa Samba, Xavier University Jazz Band, David & Roselyn, Masankho K Banda of Malawi, Red Hot Brass Band, Gray Hawk, Bombes2Bal of France, UNO Jazz Combo…

Saturday, April 25
Irma Thomas, James Taylor, Wilco, Erykah Badu, Third World, Pete Seeger, Johnny Winter, Galactic, Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Pete Fountain, The Dixie Cups, Rebirth Brass Band with guest Kermit Ruffins, Ivan Neville & Dumpstaphunk, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Del McCoury Band, Chris Owens, John Mooney & Bluesiana, The Anointed Jackson Sisters, Ilê Ayiê of Brazil, DJ Jubilee with 5th Ward Weebie and Ms. Tee, Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band, New Birth Brass Band, Connie and Dwight with St. Raymond/St. Leo Gospel Choir, Savoy Music Center of Eunice Saturday Cajun Jam, Paul Sanchez & the Rolling Road Show, Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, Texas Johnny Brown, Young Tuxedo Brass Band, Crescent City Allstars feat. James Andrews, Joe Krown with Walter “Wolfman” Washington and Russell Batiste, Jr., Astral Project, Judith Owen, Henry Gray & the Cats, Thomas “Big Hat” Fields & his Foot Stompin’ Zydeco Band, Stephanie Jordan, Ingrid Lucia, Amammereso Agofomma of Ghana, Sharde Thomas & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Leah Chase, Don Vappie & the Creole Jazz Serenaders, St. Joseph the Worker Music Ministry, Mahogany Brass Band, Patrice Fisher & Arpa feat. Chiko & Rogerio of Brazil, Lil’ Buck Sinegal Blues Band, New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Society Brass Band, Washboard Leo, Jonno Frishberg, N.O.C.C.A. Jazz Band, Tipsy Chicks, Arthur Clayton & Purposely Anointed, Red, White & Blue and Wild Mohicans Mardi Gras Indians, Small Souljas Brass Band, Golden Comanche, Seminoles, and Golden Blade Mardi Gras Indians, Nine Times Men, Single Men, Dumaine Gang, Divine Ladies, and Lady Jetsetters Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, The Cork Singers, Native Nations Intertribal with Hoop Dancer Lyndon Alec, Nineveh BC Mass Choir, Archdiocese of New Orleans Community Choir, Collage, The RRAAMS Drum & Dance…

Sunday, April 26
Dave Matthews Band, Earth, Wind & Fire, Etta James & the Roots Band, The Robert Cray Band, Orishas of Cuba, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Hugh Masekela, Mavis Staples, Better Than Ezra, The Avett Brothers, Papa Grows Funk, Kinky, Terence Blanchard, Sonny Landreth, Robert Mirabal, Dew Drop Inn Revisted hosted by Deacon John feat. Wanda Rouzan, Robert Parker, Eddie Bo, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, and Allen Toussaint, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles, Locos por Juana, Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, Wayne Toups & ZyDeCajun feat. “Back To My Roots”, Ebony Hillbillies, Dr. Michael White & the Original Liberty Jazz Band feat. Thais Clark, Trout Fishing in America, Tyronne Foster & the Arc Singers, Jo “Cool” Davis, Pine Leaf Boys, Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band, Lil’ Malcolm & the House Rockers, Tarace Boulba of France, Storyville Stompers Brass Band, Joe Hall & the Cane Cutters, Rockie Charles & the Stax of Love, Clive Wilson’s New Orleans Serenaders with guest Butch Thompson, The Mighty Chariots of Fire, Germaine Bazzle, Herlin Riley Quintet, Amammereso Agofomma of Ghana, Ilê Ayiê of Brazil, Pfister Sisters’ 30th Anniversary, Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble, Zulu Male Ensemble, Vivaz!, Guitar Slim, Jr., E.O.E., AsheSon, Schatzy, The Untouchables and Furious Five Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, Brasilliance!, SUBR Jazzy Jags, Kid Simmons’ Local International Allstars, Betty Winn & One A-Chord, Craig Adams & Higher Dimensions of Praise, Voices of St. Peter Claver, Jim McCormick, Roderick Paulin & the Big Easy Groovers, Jake Smith, Golden Star Hunters Mardi Gras Indians, Big Steppers, Olympia Aid, New Look, and First Division Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, Carrollton Hunters, Flaming Arrows, Cherokee Hunters, and Ninth Ward Navajo Mardi Gras Indians, Theatre Coatimundi of France, Loyola University Jazz Band, Native Nations Intertribal with Hoop Dancer Lyndon Alec, Heritage School of Music Band, Kayla Woodson & Louisiana Lightnin’, Young Pinstripe Brass Band, Judy Stock & the Calliope Puppets…

[line-ups from Jazz Fest Web site. Photo of Henry Gray from Henry Gray and the Cats Web Site.]