FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVAL

The French Quarter Festival, Louisiana's largest free music
festival, takes place this weekend with nearly 140 live per-
formances featured throughout the French Quarter, from Canal
Street to Esplanade Avenue and from Bourbon Street to the
Mississippi River. Many of the performers featured at the
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in two weeks will be
playing for free on the 15 stages of French Quarter Fest.
Performers include such New Orleans legends as Pete Fountain,
Kipori Woods, Ingrid Lucia, Joe Krown Organ Combo, the Little
Freddie King Blues Band, Irvin Mayfield, Coco Robicheaux and
Spiritland, the Brint Anderson Band, the Irene Sage Band,
Papa Grows Funk, the Leslie Smith Band, All That, Theresa
Andersson, Marva Wright, Willie Tee, Bonerama, Olympia Brass
Band, Soul Rebels Brass Band, New Orleans Nightcrawlers, the
Rockin' Jake Band, Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster
Gentlemen, Walter "Wolfman" Washington and the Roadmasters,
Donald Harrison, Jr. Quintet, Dr. Michael White's Liberty
Brass Band, Original Pin-Stripe Brass Band, Jimmy Thibodeaux,
the Hackberry Ramblers, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys,
John Autin, the Pfister Sisters, Washboard Chaz Blues Trio,
Leigh "Little Queenie" Harris, Dukes of Dixieland, Michael
Ray and the Cosmic Krewe, Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue
Swingers, Wardell Quezerque Big Band, The Revealers and
George Porter, Jr. and the Pardners.