The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has set its 2027 dates: 22 April to 2 May. Jazz Fest is the city hearing its own music at scale, jazz and blues, gospel, brass bands and the sounds of Louisiana, played in the place they grew up in, across two long weekends in spring.
Nothing else is out yet. The organiser's ticket page says 2027 tickets are not on sale and will be released when the line-up is announced in the coming months. Treat this as a signal to block the dates and look for a bed early, not to buy.
Leave the evenings for the city's rooms. Preservation Hall, at 726 St Peter Street in the French Quarter, has played traditional New Orleans jazz since 1961 in short sets on around 360 nights a year; it is small, it fills, and its atlas page has the set times.
