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Downriver Fest 2017

The fifth Annual Downriver Festival on Saturday, September 9th, 2017 celebrates the environmental, cultural, and economic impact of the Mississippi River and the land it built through live music, cooking demonstrations, presentations, panels, and walking tours that explore this year’s theme “Shrimp and Sno-balls.”

Music:

10:00 -11:00 Kinfolk Brass Band Second Line. Second line begins moving in Jackson Square at 10:30 and heads to New Orleans Jazz Museum

11:00 – 11:45 Soul Brass Band & Dancing Man 504

12:00 –1:45 Arrowhead Jazz Band with special guests Wendell Brunious, Richard Scott & Corinne Walters

2:00 – 3:15 Bluezy Pink Magnolias

3:30 – 4:30 Fredy Omar & con su Bonda

4:50 – 6:15 Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots

6:30 – 8:00 Javier Olondo & AsheSon Band & Bookoo Reuda
 

Earlier Event: September 8
Dexter Allen
Later Event: September 12
Down on Their Luck Orchestra