Aretha Franklin, Drake Sign On For Jazz & Heritage Festival
Date: 12/15/09 | Newsroom
Filed under: Tours Gigs & Events, Aretha Franklin, Drake
The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin and Grammy nominated recording artist Drake will join a number of Jazz, Pop, Gospel and Rock artists for the 2010 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Slated to run April 23-25 and April 29-May 2 in New Orleans, LA, the forthcoming festival will also feature performances from Lionel Richie, Darius Rucker, Anita Baker and BB King.
"It's just a way cool thing that Jazz Fest is so broad that it can embrace all these different things, all these different artists," the festival's producer, Quint Davis, said in a statement Monday.
Marking its 41st year, tickets for the 2010 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival go on sale Tuesday, December 15.
For more information visit nojazzfest.com
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you guys are dumb as hell ARETHA IS AN ICON SHE SET MANY OF THE STANDARDS WE RESPECT AS PROFFESSIONALS IN MUSIC TODAY. QUIT HATING
I wonder will she bring her own band or give the local musicians of New Orleans if they back her, a Katrina styled "hard time" on their playing skills like she does in every other city! Queen Re is known to give many professional musicains hell in reheasals and their will be no empathy for Louisana from her Queendom! I know another damn thing for sure is that she will eating up, any and everything that says or looks cajun or creole! New Orleans: watch out for the Queen of Soul Food and Attitude is headed South just in time for your Spring Break or Spring Breakfast!
I always thought the Trash Heep from Fraggle Rock was fiction. My bad, it's Aretha. You go girl!