Jazz Fest returns to New Orleans for 2022

Quint Davis, producer of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, stands on a stage of the festival’s Blues Tent (Kevin McGill/AP)

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is back for the first time in three years after being silenced by the pandemic.

Friday’s long-awaited revival holds echoes of 2006, when the annual celebration of music and culture went on even after Hurricane Katrina.