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Today, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival released its day-specific musical lineup. The 2010 Jazz Fest is scheduled for April 23-25 & April 29-May 2 at the Fair Grounds Race Course.
Festival organizers also announced that Juan Luis Guerra y 440 have been added to the lineup. Making his first-ever Jazz Fest appearance, Juan Luis Guerra will perform on Sunday, April 25. The Dominican singer has sold over 20 million records and won numerous awards including nine Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards.
Juan Luis Guerra y 440 join Simon & Garfunkel, Pearl Jam, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, The Neville Brothers, Lionel Richie, Anita Baker, The Allman Brothers Band, My Morning Jacket, Widespread Panic, B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Irma Thomas, The Dead Weather, The Black Crowes and hundreds more previously announced to appear at the 41st edition of the beloved Festival.
In other updates, Jazz Fest noted that Band of Horses will be appearing on Saturday, May 1 and not during the first weekend of the Festival as listed earlier. Gil Scott-Heron, previously announced for the Festival, will not appear.
The complete day-by-day Jazz Fest schedule breakdown is available at nojazzfest.com.
For more on Jazz Fest see our 2009 coverage here. And the 2006 Jazz Fest event was recently voted one of JamBase's Most Important Shows of The Decade, be sure to check out that special feature here.
