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The Latest: 2nd soggy day at Jazz Fest ends some acts early

The Acura Stage area is flooded after a storm dumped several inches of rain on the second Saturday of the New Orleans Jazz Fest at the Fair Grounds, Saturday, April 30, 2016. (David Grunfeld/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)
The Acura Stage area is flooded after a storm dumped several inches of rain on the second Saturday of the New Orleans Jazz Fest at the Fair Grounds, Saturday, April 30, 2016. (David Grunfeld/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)

By Associated Press 2 min read

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The Latest on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (all times local):

1:40 p.m.

A day after thunderstorms forced the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to close early, another downpour turned parts of the Fair Grounds Race Track into a swimming pool for geese and forced opening acts on main stages to end their sets early.

Festival spokesman Matthew Goldman said The New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra, the Young Guardians of the Flame Mardi Gras Indians and other acts under big tents were able to keep performing Sunday.

Ketha Page waded across calf-high water to help her husband pack up their folding chairs and get under the blues tent, to be sure the chairs didn’t blow away.