NEW ORLEANS — Willie Nelson is cancelling an approaching overall performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage competition and suspending other demonstrates following a good case of the coronavirus in his band.
The 89-12 months-aged musician posted on his band’s website on Friday that “due to a good Covid circumstance in the Willie Nelson Family Band” two future exhibits scheduled to transpire Might 6 and May perhaps 7 would be postponed and that Nelson’s Sunday general performance at Jazz Fest would be cancelled.
Nelson was slated to near the Gentilly Stage — the similar phase wherever his son Lukas Nelson is carrying out earlier in the day with his band the Promise of the Actual. No substitution for the elder Nelson has yet been declared.
The news will come right after Melissa Etheridge announced Thursday that she would not be ready to complete Saturday at Jazz Fest due to “COVID hitting my crew.” Mavis Staples will conduct throughout that time interval as an alternative.
“Oh my coronary heart hurts not to be there. Mavis will be wonderful, I know. I am hoping I can be requested back again all over again. Dave and crew are healing. Thank you for all the very well wishes. COVID heartbreak,” tweeted Etheridge right after news that Staples would surface on Saturday was announced.
Also on Friday, legendary New Orleans bass player George Porter Jr. explained on Instagram that he experienced the coronavirus and was out for the relaxation of the festival.
The Instances-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate claimed that Porter performed various reveals for the duration of Jazz Fest’s very first weekend and had a variety of performances scheduled outdoors the festival all through the 2nd weekend.
The 7-working day pageant started out on Friday, April 29, and ends Sunday, May possibly 8.
The celebration draws tens of 1000's to the city’s Honest Grounds Race Course, the place as numerous as 80 musical functions carry out day-to-day on more than a dozen phases, complemented by artwork and craft exhibits and an array of booths showcasing foodstuff from Louisiana and further than.
When it attracts nationwide and intercontinental expertise these kinds of as Nelson and Etheridge, the festival is also known for showcasing the large gamut of musical talent and genres uncovered in Louisiana these kinds of as zydeco, gospel, blues and of program, jazz.
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