Voodoo Music Arts Experience |
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 Snoop Dogg performs on the main stage in 2011 |
Status | Active |
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Genre | Music festival |
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Frequency | Annually |
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Venue | City Park |
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Location(s) | New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Country | United States |
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Years active | 19 |
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Inaugurated | October 29, 1999 (1999-10-29) |
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Previous event | October 26–28, 2018 |
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Next event | October 25-27, 2019 |
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Website | www.voodoofestival.com |
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The Voodoo Music + Arts Experience (formerly "The Voodoo Music Experience"), commonly referred to as Voodoo or Voodoo Fest, is a multi-day music and arts festival held in City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Voodoo Experience has hosted more than 2000 artists and over one million festival goers during its existence. The festival has been twice nominated for Pollstar's Music Festival of the Year.[1] It was acquired by Live Nation Entertainment in 2013 and is produced by C3 Presents.[2] Don Kelly, Voodoo's former General Counsel and COO, is now Festival Director and oversees the event.[3]
The Voodoo Experience is known for including national artists from all genres such as Stone Temple Pilots, Foo Fighters, Marilyn Manson, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Muse, Eminem, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arcade Fire, Tiësto, Nine Inch Nails, KISS, R.E.M., Modest Mouse, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Calvin Harris, The Weeknd, Deadmau5, The Black Keys, Neil Young, Green Day, Snoop Dogg, Duran Duran, Porcupine Tree, The Smashing Pumpkins, My Chemical Romance, 50 Cent, Cowboy Mouth and 311 as well as local Louisiana musicians such as The Original Meters, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Rebirth Brass Band, and Dr. John.
Zack De La Rocha of Rage Against The Machine performs at Voodoo 2007
History
Since its 1999 Halloween weekend debut, the annual event has become a Halloween tradition to music fans, both locally and others who travel from around the world. Throughout Voodoo’s 20-year run, more than one million festival goers have gathered to see performances from about 2,000 artists. The event has also been twice nominated for Pollstar's Music Festival of the Year and in 2005, Voodoo founder Stephen Rehage and his team were presented with a key to the city, following the Voodoo 2005 post-Katrina event.
Voodoo’s annual line-up traditionally features top-tier and innovative artists from a variety of musical genres. Highlights from the last 15 years have included performances from Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Eminem, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cure, Tiesto, Nine Inch Nails, Deadmau5, No Doubt, Ozzy Osbourne, The Black Keys, Neil Young, Green Day, KISS, Snoop Dogg, Duran Duran, R.E.M. (in one of the band’s last U.S. performances), My Chemical Romance, 50 Cent and 311.
Creation and growth
Moby performs at the inaugural Voodoo in Tad Gormley Stadium.
Voodoo was first held as a single day event on October 30, 1999 at Tad Gormley Stadium in City Park. Planned and executed by Stephen Rehage, CEO of Rehage Entertainment, the festival consisted of three stages and a mix of local and national acts including headliners Wyclef Jean and Moby.
As the U.S. festival market swelled, Voodoo continued its growth, increasing both the festival site and musically expanding with the addition of stages and performers.
Rapper Eminem performs early in his career at Voodoo 2000
During its second year in 2000, Voodoo became to a two-day event and garnered international attention with a headlining performance from Eminem in support of his just-released three times platinum major studio debut The Slim Shady LP. In 2007, Voodoo expanded to a three-day event.
Hurricane Katrina
Nine Inch Nails headline Voodoo 2005
Originally scheduled for Halloween Weekend in New Orleans’ City Park, the Voodoo Music Experience was displaced by the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. While plans were in full swing to move forward with relocation to Memphis, Voodoo founder Stephen Rehage met with community leaders in New Orleans about the opportunity to move the event back home for one of its two days—as a tribute event for relief workers. Festival organizers and Memphis representatives alike agreed this was an amazing opportunity to increase the scope of the event.
New Orleans event
On October 29, 2005, an invitation-only celebration (previous ticket holders exempt) for police, firefighters, National Guard, military and countless others who had aided in the recovery efforts of the city was staged at the Riverview "Butterfly" section of Audubon Park in New Orleans, one of the few public spaces in the city not damaged in the recent Federal levee failure disaster . Nine Inch Nails,Queens of the Stone Age, The Secret Machines, the New York Dolls, and Kermit Ruffins were among the artists who all came together in celebration of a city they love. [4]
It marked the first major multi-musical performance in the two months since Hurricane Katrina’s effects were felt in the city.
Memphis Event
Voodoo in Memphis included a fundraiser for victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in AutoZone Park.
2006 - present
The 2006 Voodoo Music Experience saw the debut of three distinct areas on six distinct stages within the festival’s landscape: Le Ritual, Le Flambeau and Le Carnival. Each of these areas was designed to uniquely showcase different sides of the personality of the festival and its New Orleans home: "Le Flambeau" features music and sounds consistent with the style of The Big Easy; "Le Ritual" features more mainstream music; and finally "Le Carnival" features indie bands, burlesque and circus acts.
In 2007, Voodoo expanded to three days and broke all previous attendance records with an estimated 100,000+ fans in attendance.
In April 2013, the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience announced an initial 15 acts to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Voodoo. The initial 15 acts include Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Calvin Harris, Bassnectar, Paramore, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Afrojack, Boys Noize, The Gaslight Anthem, Big Gigantic, How To Destroy Angels, Cults, Alkaline Trio, Desaparecidos and Robert DeLong. The 15th anniversary Voodoo celebration also marked the debut of City Park’s Festival Grounds, a new permanent home for Voodoo. Home to Voodoo since its 1999 debut—with the exception of Voodoo 2005 which was displaced by the city’s hurricane damage—New Orleans’ 1,300 acre City Park is the region’s principal recreation site that attracts over seven million visitors each year.
Line-ups
2018
The 2018 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held October 26–28, 2018. The lineup consisted of:
- Mumford & Sons
- Travis Scott
- Arctic Monkeys
- Odesza
- Martin Garrix
- A Perfect Circle
- Modest Mouse
- Marilyn Manson
- The Revivalists
- 21 Savage
- Janelle Monáe
2017
The 2017 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held October 27–29, 2017. The lineup was:
- Kendrick Lamar
- Foo Fighters
- The Killers
- LCD Soundsystem
- DJ Snake
- Galantis
- Dillon Francis
- Brand New
- The Head & The Heart
- Kehlani
- Post Malone
- Miguel
- RL Grime
- Prophets of Rage
- Cold War Kids
- Yellow Claw
- Superduperkyle
- The Afghan Whigs
- Live
- Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
- Marian Hill
- K Flay
- Illenium
- Louis the Child
- Nghtmare
- Whitney
- The Black Angels
- Amine
- Vintage Trouble
- Gnash
- G Jones
- Hayley Kiyoko
- Rich Chigga
- Bibi Bourelly
- The Record Company
- Benjamin Booker
- Mija
- Colony House
- Chicano Batman
- Strand of Oaks
- Autograf
- Joyride
- Flow Tribe
- Boombox Cartel
- Mondo Cozmo
- Snbrn
- Tokimonsta
- Pell
- CID
- Black Pistol Fire
- Saint Jhn
- Flint Eastwood
- Pham
- La Femme
- Ron Gallo
- Durand Jones & the Indications
- Mannequin Pussy
- Public Access TV
- Bleached
- Tim Gunter
- DJ Mel
- DJ Gracie
- Malik Ninety Five
- Alfred Banks
- Carmine P Filthy
- Free Swim
- Unicorn Fukr
- Otto
- Herb Christopher
- Zander
- SKB & Yrstrly
- Werd2jah
2016
The 2016 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 28–30, 2016.
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2015
The 2015 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 30-November 1, 2015.[6]
2014
The 2014 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 31-November 2, 2014.
2013
The 2013 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from November 1–3, 2013.
Official lineup:
- The Cure
- Nine Inch Nails
- Pearl Jam
- Kid Rock
- Calvin Harris
- Bassnectar
- Paramore
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
- Afrojack
- Boys Noize
- The Gaslight Anthem
- Big Gigantic
- Matt & Kim
- Alkaline Trio
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- Dirty South
- Desaparecidos
- Beats Antique
- New Found Glory
- Cults
- Savoy
- Delta Rae
- Anamanaguchi
- Maxim of The Prodigy
- Moon Taxi
- Allen Stone
- Destructo
- Youndblood Hawke
- ZZ Ward
- Rudimental +The Revivalists
- Shovels & Ropes
- The Olms
- Keys N Krates
- L.P.
- G-Eazy
- F. Stokes
- He's My Brother She's My Sister
- Hockey
- A Silent Film
- Robert Delong
- The Weeks
- The Virginmarys
- The Apache Relay
- Those Darlins
- Reignwolf
- CC Adcock & The Lafayette Marquis
- Ruby Amanfu
- Fleur DeBris
- Billy Squier
- Bad Things
- John Michael Rouchell
- Flow Tribe
- Mystery Skulls
- Royal Teeth
- Quintron & Miss Pussycat
- Roll The Tanks
- Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra
- Dan Dyer
- The Purrs
- Andrew Duhon
- Turf War
- The Black Cadillacs
- The Brenton Sound
- Poof! The Pop Show With Carmine P. Filthy & A Boy Named Ruth
- The Scorseses
- Big History
- Coyotes
- Kinky Machine
- Leopold and His Fiction
- Church with Unicorn Fukr, Mr. Cool Bad Guy & Guests
- Leslie Blackshear Smith & Double Black Featuring Simon Lott, DJ Raymond, Shawn Theriot, Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, Tim Green, Ivan Neville, Kiki Phillips, Mehnaz Hoosein & Erica Falls
- Sports & Leisure
- Paul Varisco and The Milestones
- Panic in Eden
- Oh, Jeremiah
- Hello Negro
- J Fernell
- The Real Night Tripper: Dr. John Featuring George Porter Jr., Herlin Riley, Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, Smokey Johnson, Chief Monk Bourdeaux, Nicholas Payton, Roderick Paulin, Sarah Morrow, & Topsy Chapman & Solid Harmony[7]
2012
The 2012 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 26–28, 2012.[7]
Official lineup:
- Artists and art installations
- Christina Sporrong and Christian Ristow "Sliver Claw"
- Program12 & Susie Kim "The Vaudeville Theater"
- Delaney McGuinness & Johnston Burkhard "Pinwheel Garden"
- RE:BE Art Department "Artist Bar"
- Christian Ristow "Face Forward"
- Marcus Brown "Way"
- Dave Rhodes "Doors of Perception"
- Andrew Graham "Movement"
- Hans Sachs
- Manuel Kretzer "Cone v2"
2011
The 2011 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 28–30, 2011.
Official lineup:
- Soundgarden
- Blink 182
- The Raconteurs
- Snoop Dogg
- Girl Talk
- Steve Angello
- Fatboy Slim
- My Chemical Romance
- Cheap Trick
- Ray Davies
- Band of Horses
- TV on the Radio
- The Original Meters
- Social Distortion
- Mastodon
- X (band)
- Z Trip
- Major Lazer
- Ozomatli
- Odd Future
- Portugal. The Man
- Boots Electric
- City and Colour
- Civil Twilight
- Blind Pilot
- Mates of State
- Dr. John with special guests Irma Thomas, Cyril Neville, and Walter "Wolfman" Washington
- Fitz and the Tantrums
- American Legacies with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Del McCoury Band
- Peelander-Z
- The Sheep Dogs
- Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes with Lost Bayou Ramblers
- A-Trak
- The Wombats
- The Static Jacks
- Kreayshawn
- The Limousines
- Fishbone
- The Stone Foxes
- Givers
- Ani DiFranco with Ivan Neville & Herlin Riley
- Honey Island Swamp Band
- Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes
- Mannie Fresh
- Dirty South +King Britt
- Red Baraat
- Members of Morphine with Jeremy Lyons
- Jackmaster
- Claude VonStroke
- Maya Jane Coles
- The Bangerz
- The Revivalists
- Daedelus
- Quickie Mart & Tony Skratchere
- Mike Relm
- MyNameIsJohnMichael
- BeauSoleil with Dr. Michael White
- Mississippi Rail Company
- Feur De Bris with special guest Dan Dyer
- Star Eyes
- Fort Knox Five
- Dangermuffin
- The Soul Rebels Brass Band w/ Cyril Neville
- Deniz Kurtal
- Craig Richards
- Danny Howells
- Lee Burridge
- Force Feed Radio
- Bobby Rush
- Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk with special guests Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Angelo Moore
- Treme Brass Band
- Tommy Malone and the Hard Head
- New Orleans Bingo! Show
- The Travelin’ McCourys with Keller Williams
- Bonerama feat. Dave Malone of The Radiators
- Fleur De Tease
- Leo Jackson and the Melody Clouds
- Glen David Andrews
- New Orleans Klezmer Allstars
- Ma Maison with the Trey McIntyre Project/Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- King James and the Special Men
- Tanner Ross with Voices of Black
- Wolf + Lamb
- Soul Clap
- Natalie Mae and Her Unturned Tricks
- Lynn Drury Band
- High Ground Drifters Bluegrass Band
- Kora Konnection feat. Morikeba Kouyate and Thierno Dioubate
- Ernie Vincent and the Top Notes
- Achachay!
- Cheeky Blakk
- Quintron and Miss Pussycat
- The Vettes
- Noisician Coalition, Electronic Sound Line with the Bull and the Bot
- Carmine P. Filthy
- Andrew Duhon
- Iris May Tango
- Kyle Turley
- Palmetto Bug Stompers
- Tao Seeger Brass Band
- Chris Thomas King
- Illuminasti Trio Plus 1 feat. Mike Dillon, James Singleton, Skerik, and Brian Coogan
- Morning 40 Federation
- R. Scully’s Rough 7
- Hurray for the Riff Raff
- Happy Talk Band
- Rotary Downs
- New Orleans Bounce Azztravaganza feat. Katey Red, Vockah Redu, Cheeky Blakk, D.J. Lefty Parker, and special guests
- Christoph Andersson
- Swiss Chriss
- Fran Moran and The Nervous Wrecks
- DJ Swamp
- Miracle at St. Anna
- Artists and art installations
- Richie Jordan "Fountain De Lis"
- Emilie Lejeune, Mike Landry and Matt Decotiis "Ephemeral Ambiance"
- Hans Sachs
- Manuel Kretzer "Cone v2"
- "Live Mural Wall"
- James Michalopoulos "Sparkie TouT Taux"
- Stefan Beese "The VMX Knot"
- Christian Ristow "Fledging"
- Doron Gazit "Color & Air"
- Jamin Murphy "Tensile"
- Jerry Therio "Tree of Words"
- Thom Rush "Swell Holding"
- Christian Van Heusen & Jerry Therio "Neon Garden"
- Buch Kanter "Mushroom Patch"
- Delaney McGuinness & Johnston Burkhard "Pinwheel Garden"
- Christiana Sporrong "Heron"
2010
The 2010 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 29–31, 2010.
Official lineup:
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Muse
- My Morning Jacket
- Drake
- Weezer
- Deadmau5
- Florence + The Machine
- Interpol
- MGMT
- Metric
- Hot Chip
- Paul van Dyk
- Street Sweeper Social Club
- Paul Oakenfold
- Jakob Dylan and Three Legs
- Ferry Corsten
- Rusko
- Buckwheat Zydeco
- Major Lazer
- Raphael Saadiq
- Eagles of Death Metal
- Cage the Elephant
- Minus the Bear
- A-Trak
- Janelle Monáe
- Fitz & The Tantrums
- Swiss Chriss (band)
- Christoph Andersson
- Eli "Paperboy" Reed
- Galactic with Guests
- The Airborne Toxic Event
- Jónsi
- Innerpartysystem
- Afrojack
- Die Antwoord
- Curren$y
- Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
- Rebirth Brass Band
- Paul Wall
- Crookers
- Boys Noize
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- Stanton Moore Trio with Anders Osborne and Robert Walter
- Voice of the Wetland All Stars feat., Tab Benoit, Cyril Neville, Waylon Thibodeaux, Monk Bourdeaux, Johnny Vidacovich, Johnny Sansone
- Soul Rebels Brass Band
- Theresa Andersson
- Basin Street Records Revue feat., Kermit Ruffins, Dr. Michael White, Jeremy Davenport, George Porter Jr. & Runnin' Pardners
- Toubab Krewe
- Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen
- Treme Brass Band with Uncle Lionel Batiste
- Cedric Burnside & Lightnin Malcolm
- Big Sam's Funky Nation
- The New Orleans Bingo! Show
- The Happy Talk Band
- Fleur De Tease Burlesque Revue
- Rotary Downs
- Paul Sanchez & the Rolling Road Show
- DJ Soul Sister
- Quintron & Miss Pussycat
- Honey Island Swamp Band
- Gal Holiday
- Rosie Ledet
- Fatter Than Albert
- Leo Jackson and the Melody Clouds
- AM
- Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights
- Shannon McNally
- Creole String Beans
- Feufollet
- Alvin Youngblood Hart
- Locos Por Juana
- Flow Tribe
- Consortium of Genius
- Luke Winslow-King
- Noisician Coalition
- DJ Quickie Mart
- The Vettes
- Debauche
- Helen Gillet
- The Local Skank
- COOT
- MC Sweet Tea
- Rival Sons
- Lost Bayou Ramblers
- O'Brother
- Kristin Diable
- Artists and art installations
- Photonic Bliss "Galactivation Station"
- Dave Rhodes "Paper Airplane"
- Munz, d6, Intruder Alert "Hotshot the Robot/ hugo3"
- James Michalopoulos "Sparkie TouT Taux"
- Program12 & Susie Kim "The Vaudeville Theater"
- Thomas Rush "Swell Holding"
- Hans Sachs
- Manuel Kretzer "Cone v2"
- Munz "Hotshot Robot"
- Stefan Beese "Arachnid"
- Charles Lumar & Lauren Domino "SOUSAPHORESCENCE"
- Munz/ D6 "Robotronia"
2009
The 2009 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 30-November 1, 2009.
Official lineup:
- Artists and art installations
- Mark Griffin "Ladder"
- Deirdre Sargent "Picnic Table Project"
- Eyetrap/Benson Trent "Illusion"
- Elliott Coon "Watch Your Eye", "Parlor"
- Hans Sachs
- Manuel Kretzer "Cone v2"
- Molly Gochman "Welcome"
- Mathias Gmachl
- Rachel Wingfield "Pavilion of the Four Winds"
- Jen Lewin "Light Harp"
- Generic Art Solutions "O.K."
- Daphane Park "Hammock Mother"
- Stefan Beese "Passage"
- Munz "Hot Shot The Robot"
- Andrew Slaughter
- Jeff Matson
- Thaddeus Zarse
- Joseph Keppel
- Mantis
- Mini Man
- TungstenMonkey Collective
- Tora Lopez
- Emiliano Maggi
- Mickey Sumner
- John Oles
- William Murphy
- Kristian P. Hansen
- Lisa Lozano
2008
The 2008 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 24–26, 2008.
2007
The 2007 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 26–28, 2007.
2006
The 2006 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 28–29, 2006.
2005
The 2005 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held on 29–30 October 2005 in New Orleans and Memphis.[8][9]
2004
The 2004 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 29–31, 2004.
2003
The 2003 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 31-November 1, 2003.
2002
The 2002 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 25–27, 2002.
2001
The 2001 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 26–28, 2001.
Official lineup:
- Tool
- Snoop Dogg
- The Black Crowes
- Bush
- Gov't Mule
- Karl Denson
- John Mayer
- Missy Elliott
- Penelope Tuesdae
- Will Hoge
- Brand New Immortals
- Tricky
- G. Love and Special Sauce
- Better Than Ezra
- Dan Dyer
- Spooks
- Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
- Brint Anderson
- Treme Brass Band
- Bamboula
- Lil Rascals Brass Band
- Anders Osborne
- Marva Wright
- Matt Nyce
- Indieo
- Julius Papp
- A-Trak
- DJ Craze
- Stryfe
- Rah Smoove
2000
The 2000 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 27–29, 2000.
1999
The 1999 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held on October 31, 1999.
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