NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The last day of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival kicked off Sunday under grey skies again, a day after a deluge whipped through the area and rained out closing acts.
Organizers honored tickets on Sunday for those who were rained out Saturday. Stevie Wonder, who was supposed to close the Acura Stage Saturday, gave an impromptu performance in a New Orleans nightclub instead on Saturday evening.
Some of the acts Sunday will be singer Lena Prima; jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis; the Isley Brothers; gospel singer Mavis Staples; and Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue.
Prima has an interview on one of the festival’s 12 stages and a performance 2 ½ hours later on another, with the Lena Prima Band. In an interview ahead of the festival, she said she most likely won’t be in the audience at other performances ahead of her own.
“I like to conserve my energy so I can do the best show I can.”