2025 Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival Live Music Schedule Announcement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

NEW ORLEANS (July 17, 2025) — The Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival returns to Lafayette Square Park (602 St. Charles Ave.) in New Orleans — October 10-12, 2025. 

Devon Allman’s Blues Summit featuring The Devon Allman Project, Larry McCray, Jimmy Hall, and Sierra Green, Tab Benoit, and Bobby Rush will headline the festival, which is presented by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns Jazz Fest. Admission to the festival is free and open to the public. To elevate your festival experience, limited VIP packages are available for purchase, which include up-front seating, two complimentary bars, air conditioning, and more. VIP packages are valid for the entire weekend and are available here.

​​The Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival is an award-winning event, featuring two stages of music, a large selection of the best barbecue vendors in the region and a local arts market.

The festival will be held on Friday, October 10, from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm, and Saturday, October 11, and Sunday, October 12, from 11:00 am to 8:30 pm.

Performers at the 2025 edition include Devon Allman’s Blues Summit featuring the Devon Allman Project, Larry McCray, Jimmy Hall and Sierra Green,  Bobby Rush,  Tab Benoit, Leo Nocentelli of the Meters, Vasti Jackson, Carolyn Wonderland, Sierra Green & the Giants, Cindy Cashdollar, Brian Mitchell and the Woodstock All-Stars w/ special guest Sonny Landreth, Hubby Jenkins, Jontavious Willis, The Top Notes featuring Ernie Vincent, Ed Wills & Blues 4 $ale, Joy Clark, Eric Johanson, Mia Borders, Mem Shannon & the Membership, Pennsylvania Wolfe Johns, and Tyron Benoit Band.

For more information, visit crescentcitybluesfest.com

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The Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival is a presentation of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. The Jazz & Heritage Foundation radio station WWOZ New Orleans 90.7 FM will broadcast the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival live from Lafayette Square – over the air and live-streaming at www.wwoz.org and on the Foundation’s Facebook page and YouTube Channel.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation gratefully acknowledges the 2025 Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival sponsors:

Cathead Distillery, Urban South Brewery, National Endowment for the Arts, The Big Easy Cruise, Chillzone, Maverick Entertainment Group, Louisiana Lottery, Capital Vacations, 89.9 WWNO, Delta Utilities, and the Louisiana Office of Cultural Development.

ABOUT THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation invests proceeds from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell and additional funds that we raise for year-round programming in education, economic development, and cultural enrichment.   Education programs include the Don “Moose” Jamison Heritage School of Music, the Tom Dent Congo Square Lectures, the Class Got Brass competition for school brass bands, a youth audio workshop program, youth vocal workshops, and more! Economic Development initiatives include the Community Partnership Grants, the Catapult Fund accelerator program, and Sync Up entertainment industry workshops. Cultural enrichment programs include the Jazz & Heritage Concert Series and annual Foundation Festivals: the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival, the Congo Square Rhythms Festival, the Tremé Creole Gumbo Festival, and the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival.  Importantly, these are free programs that the Jazz and Heritage Foundation has developed over many years to ensure that we give back to Louisiana. The Jazz & Heritage Foundation also owns radio station WWOZ 90.7-FM and the Jazz & Heritage Archive.  In late 2014, the Foundation opened the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center – an education and community facility named for the late Jazz Fest founder George Wein and his wife Joyce.  In March of 2020, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation established the Jazz & Heritage Music Relief Fund – a statewide relief fund to support Louisiana musicians who were affected by the pandemic. In the last two years, the Jazz & Heritage Foundation has been able to provide relief funds of more than $2 million dollars supporting musicians, music industry gig workers, Black Masking Indians, and other indigenous cultural practitioners. To learn more about the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, please visit us online at www.jazzandheritage.org