Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline the first Sunday of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 1st. The band will assume the slot vacated by Foo Fighters after they canceled all tour dates in the wake of drummer Taylor Hawkins‘ death last month.
The Los Angeles, CA punk-meets-funk stadium rockers will close out Sunday at Jazz Fest alongside The Avett Brothers, Charlie Wilson, The Count Basie Orchestra, Dumpstaphunk, Randy Newman, and more. Weekend one of Jazz Fest April 29th–May 1st will also host performances from The Who, Foo Fighters, Lionel Richie, Nelly, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Death Cab for Cutie, Third World, José Feliciano, CeeLo Green As…”Soul Brotha #100” (A James Brown Tribute), Galactic featuring Anjelika ‘Jelly’ Joseph, Tank and The Bangas, PJ Morton, Terence Blanchard featuring The E-Collective & Turtle Island Quartet, Anders Osborne, Cyril Neville, Gilberto Santa Rosa, The War And Treaty, George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners, Tab Benoit, and many, many more.
Jazz Fest returns for a second weekend May 6th–8th with Stevie Nicks, Jimmy Buffett and The Coral Reefer Band, Luke Combs, The Black Crowes, Erykah Badu, Willie Nelson & Family, Norah Jones, Lauren Daigle, Ludacris, Billy Strings, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Ziggy Marley: Songs of Bob Marley, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, The Revivalists, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Melissa Etheridge, Boz Scaggs, Kool & The Gang, Irma Thomas, Buddy Guy, Tribute to Art and Charles Neville with the funky Meters and Ivan Neville & The Neville Brothers Band featuring Cyril Neville, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Rickie Lee Jones, Shovels & Rope, Chris Isaak, David Sanborn, The Radiators, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Big Freedia, Leo Nocentelli: Another Side, Samantha Fish, Kermit Ruffins and The BBQ Swingers, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & The Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians, and many more.
Tickets for Jazz Fest 2022 are on sale here. Scroll down to see the full lineup (which has not yet been updated to include RHCP).
