French Quarter Festival

Lost Bayou Ramblers at the French Quarter Festival

French Quarter Festival is a free, annual music festival held in early April, located in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 1983 with the first festival held in 1984, the festival features primarily New Orleans music, such as jazz, blues, and zydeco.

With an estimated attendance of over 732,000 in 2014,[1] the festival bills itself as "The Largest Free Festival In the United States."[2]

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