NOLA Crawfish Festival Lineup Announcement

The inaugural NOLA Crawfish Festival will take place April 25 – 27, in between weekends of Jazz Fest, at the NOLA Brewery and Tap House in New Orleans. Organizers have detailed the musical lineup for the event which features such Crescent City luminaries as George Porter Jr., Jon Cleary, Anders Osborne and Nigel Hall.

In addition to the music, the festival will also present a variety of beers from NOLA Brewing Company and over 5,000 pounds of hot boiled crawfish prepped on-site by Chris “Shaggy” Davis and his NOLA Crawfish King staff. George Porter, Jr., Jon Cleary, Nigel Hall, John “Papa” Gros, Billy Iuso & The Restless Natives, Papa Mali, Eric Lindell, June Yamagishi, Raymond Weber, Tony Hall, Derwin “Big D” Perkins, Terrence Higgins, Brian Stoltz, Eric Vogel, Dave Malone, Johnny Sansone, Mike Zito & The Wheel, Colin Lake, Russ Broussard and special guest Anders Osborne are all scheduled to perform at the event, which will feature a number of superjams and collaborations. A portion of all ticket proceeds will go to The Brett Thomas Doussan Foundation, a local nonprofit whose mission is to raise mental health awareness through advocacy, education, and music.

Tickets and more information are available via the event’s website. General admission passes include one beer and a guaranteed minimum of two pounds of crawfish will all the fixings. Both single-day and three-day passes are up for sale as well as VIP passes.

NOLA Crawfish Festival Artist Schedule

4/25: Eric Lindell, Mike Zito & The Wheel, Colin Lake, Johnny Sansone

4/26: John “Papa” Gros Band w/ special guest, Papa Mali & Friends, Billy Iuso & The Restless Natives, George Porter Trio w/ special guest June Yamagishi

4/27: The MVP (Jon Cleary, Nigel Hall, Tony Hall, Raymond Weber, & Derwin “Big D” Perkins) + The 2016 NOLA Crawfish Cook-Off with NOLA Celebrity Judges + “The Crawfish All-Stars (George Porter, Jr., Terrence Higgins, Billy Iuso, Dave Malone w/ special guest Anders Osborne)