The Zac Brown Band will substitute nation legend Willie Nelson on the closing day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Pageant.
Nelson canceled his Sunday (Could 8) efficiency and postponed different exhibits after a optimistic case of the coronavirus in his band. The 89-year-old musician was slated to shut the Gentilly Stage — the identical stage the place his son, Lukas Nelson, is performing earlier within the day along with his band the Promise of the Actual.
The Zac Brown Band is a rustic band from Atlanta that’s greatest identified for hits like “Hen Fried,” “Freeway 20 Trip,” “Knee Deep” and “Goodbye in Her Eyes.”
Melissa Etheridge additionally canceled her scheduled efficiency after members of her crew examined optimistic for COVID-19. Mavis Staples has been tapped to interchange Etheridge within the Blues Tent on Saturday.
“Oh my coronary heart hurts to not be there. Mavis will likely be wonderful, I do know. I’m hoping I may be requested again once more. Dave and crew are therapeutic. Thanks for all of the properly needs. COVID heartbreak,” tweeted Etheridge after information that Staples would seem on Saturday was introduced.
The seven-day pageant attracts tens of 1000’s to the town’s Truthful Grounds Race Course, the place as many as 80 musical acts carry out day by day on greater than a dozen levels, complemented by arts and crafts displays and an array of cubicles that includes meals from Louisiana and past. Whereas it attracts nationwide and worldwide expertise comparable to Nelson and Etheridge, the pageant can also be identified for showcasing the large gamut of musical expertise and genres present in Louisiana comparable to zydeco, gospel, blues and naturally, jazz.
It breaks my coronary heart @PLS_rock_on to announce that resulting from COVID hitting my crew I’m unable to do the @theryman tomorrow night time together with the #Graceland present in Memphis and my efficiency @jazzfest We’re rescheduling. I’m wholesome. Keep properly. Drink a number of water. Love you all! https://t.co/FCPY4LgE3R
— Melissa Etheridge (@metheridge) May 4, 2022
