Voodoo Music + Arts Experience

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.

Voodoo Music + Arts Experience
Snoop Dogg performs on the main stage in 2011
StatusActive
GenreMusic festival
FrequencyAnnually
VenueCity Park
Location(s)New Orleans, Louisiana
CountryUnited States
Years active20
InauguratedOctober 29, 1999 (1999-10-29)
Previous event25–27 October 2019
Next event29–31 October 2021
Websitewww.voodoofestival.com

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 21-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.

No event will be planned in 2020.

Creation and growth
Moby performs at the inaugural Marconi meddows .

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 - 2015

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

1999

The 1999 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held on October 31, 1999.

Official lineup:

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2000

The 2000 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 27–29, 2000.

Official lineup:
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Eminem
  • Ben Harper
  • The Black Eyed Peas
  • Cypress Hill
  • Rahzel
  • Blues Traveler
  • Cowboy Mouth
  • 311
  • Live
  • Counting Crows
  • Galactic
  • Will Hoge
  • Guster
  • TUBA
  • Madstone
  • Section Eight
  • I-cast
  • Musician's Cook-off
  • Getaway People

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

2002

The 2002 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 25–27, 2002.

Official lineup:

2003

The 2003 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 31-November 1, 2003.

Official lineup:

2004

The 2004 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 29–31, 2004.

Official lineup:

2005

The 2005 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held on October 29–30, 2005 in New Orleans and Memphis.[7][8]

Official lineup:

2006

The 2006 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 28–29, 2006.

Official lineup:

2007

The 2007 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 26–28, 2007.

Official lineup:

2008

The 2008 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 24–26, 2008.

Official lineup:
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • R.E.M.
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Thievery Corporation
  • TV on the Radio
  • Lil Wayne
  • Lupe Fiasco
  • Panic At the Disco
  • Wyclef Jean
  • Ghostland Observatory
  • Old 97's
  • Joss Stone
  • Angels and Airwaves
  • The Mars Volta
  • Dashboard Confessional
  • Butthole Surfers
  • Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
  • Cold War Kids
  • Ozomatli Reunited w/ Chali 2na
  • Erykah Badu
  • Reverend Horton Heat
  • The Gutter Twins
  • Man Man
  • DeVotchKa
  • The New Orleans Bingo! Show
  • Extra Action Marching Band
  • Cowboy Mouth
  • Irma Thomas
  • Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
  • Bonerama
  • Fishbone
  • Lucky Brown
  • Manchester Orchestra
  • Innerpartysystem
  • Tokyo Police Club
  • Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue
  • Walter Wolfman Washington
  • Marc Broussard
  • The New Orleans Bingo! Show
  • Norcio
  • Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
  • The Dirtbombs
  • The Iguanas
  • New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
  • Marva Wright and the BMW's
  • The Zydepunks
  • Rockie Charles
  • Ben Jelen
  • Leo Nocentelli
  • Hot 8 Brass Band
  • Dead Confederate
  • Dan Dyer
  • Dr. Michael White
  • Treme Brass Band
  • Clint Maedgen +9
  • Rotary Downs
  • John Boutté
  • Sam & Ruby
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band
  • Shamarr Allen
  • Fleur de Tease
  • Fatter Than Albert
  • The Happy Talk Band
  • The Knux
  • Ashes Divide
  • 101 Runners
  • Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts
  • The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker and Big Sam's Funky Nation
  • Big Sam's Funky Nation
  • King Britt Tribute to Sister Gertrude
  • New Orleans Jazz Vipers
  • Big Blue Marble
  • Sons of William
  • Washboard Chaz Blues Trio
  • DJ Tom Harvey
  • Voodoo Social Aid A Pleasure Club presents DJ Soul Sista's Annual Downtown Throwdown
  • DJ Butterfoot
  • Nag Hammadi
  • Ray Bong
  • White Bitch's Prey Drive
  • Tap Water Mind Control
  • Worms Union
  • My Graveyard Jaw
  • Pain Tribe
  • Blind Boys of Alabama
  • The Morning 40 Federation
  • Deacon John’s Tribute to New Orleans R&B
  • Wardell Quezerque
  • Dirty Dozen Brass Band
  • New Orleans Sunken City Circus
  • Shellshock
  • Andre Williams
  • Oscillation Communications
  • One Man Machine
  • Gravity A
  • CHANT
  • (AN)drew Madinc
  • Common Thread
  • Mad Mike
  • The LowDown ThrowDown
  • The Wall Street Traitors
  • The Bad Off
  • Hurray for the Riff Raff
  • Wooded Teeth
  • F.I.S.T.
  • Voodoo Social Aid A Pleasure Club presents DJ Soul Sista's Annual Downtown Throwdown
  • DJ Butterfoot
  • C-Ba$ Sideshow
  • Nag Hammadi
  • Big Al Carson
  • Paul Sanchez and The Rolling Road Show
  • Widetrack
  • Noomoon Tribe
  • DJ Proppa Bear
  • Good Guys
  • Ratty Scurvics Singularity
  • DJ Soul Sister
  • CyberTrybe
  • Dave Gregg & the Barefoot Philistines
  • DJ Slice
  • Crooked
  • Worlds Most Dangerous
  • American Disaster Party
  • Deep in the Ninth
  • Under the Green
  • F.I.S.T.
  • Blind Boys of Alabama
  • The Morning 40 Federation
  • Deacon John’s Tribute to New Orleans R&B
  • Wardell Quezerque
  • Dirty Dozen Brass Band
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band
  • Soul Rebels Brass Band
  • Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves
  • Quintron and Miss Pussycat
  • Hot Club of New Orleans
  • Tin Men with the Valparaiso Men's Chorus
  • The Vettes
  • Bones
  • The Lee Boys
  • Melody Clouds
  • Voodoo Social Aid A Pleasure Club presents DJ Soul Sista's Annual Downtown Throwdown
  • DJ Butterfoot
  • C-Ba$ Sideshow
  • Sista Otis
  • Sirena Serpentina
  • Hands of Nero
  • Illusion Fields
  • Crimes Against Nature
  • Paul Varisco and The Milestones
  • Valpraiso Men's Chorus
  • Manwitch
  • Rock N' Soul

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

2010

The 2010 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 29–31, 2010.

Official lineup:
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"

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"

2012

The 2012 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 26–28, 2012.[9]

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"

2013

The 2013 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from November 1–3, 2013.

Official lineup:

2014

The 2014 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 31-November 2, 2014.

Official lineup:

2015

The 2015 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 30-November 1, 2015.[10]

Official lineup:

2016

The 2016 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held from October 28–30, 2016.[11] During their Sunday headlining set, Arcade Fire recorded the audience singing a melody for an unreleased song for its upcoming album, which later became "Everything Now".[12][13]

Official lineup:

2017

The 2017 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held October 27–29, 2017.

Official lineup:

2018

The 2018 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held October 26–28, 2018.

Official lineup:

2019

The 2019 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was held October 25–27, 2019.[14]

Official lineup:

See also
  • List of historic rock festivals

References
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