For the seventh year in a row, The Vinyl District will be a media sponsor for Satchmo Summerfest, the festival that pays tribute to the greatest musician to hail from New Orleans, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. The fest returns to its longtime home at the old U.S. Mint on Esplanade Avenue and Decatur Street for the second year in a row after the ill-fated move to Jackson Square in 2016.
The biggest name of the list of artists playing Satchmo Summerfest for the first time belongs to the one and only Irma Thomas. The living legend has been an icon on the music scene both in New Orleans and across the world for decades. Though she didn’t write her most famous song, “Time Is On My Side,” she is quick to quip that she recorded it before those blokes across the pond, the Rolling Stones.
Thomas is the Grammy-winning Soul Queen of New Orleans, a recent Tulane University honorary doctorate recipient, and a member of the Blues Hall of Fame. She earned her Grammy, among several nominations, for her 2007 album After the Rain.
Other 2018 Satchmo SummerFest debuts include Aurora Nealand & The Royal Roses, Bonerama, the Doyle Cooper Jazz Band, Dwayne Burns and His New Orleans Band, James Williams, Mayumi Shara & New Orleans Jazz Letters, and the Where Ya At Brass Band. Two tented stages will provide three days of musical performances.
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