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C.J. Chenier

Teddy Swims with RAYE, Lorde, Kings of Leon, Eagles, Tyler Childers, Earth, Wind & Fire, Rod Stewart, Lainey Wilson, Nas, The Black Keys, Stevie Nicks, St. Vincent, The Isley Brothers, The Revivalists, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, Alabama Shakes, Jon Batiste, Herbie Hancock, Little Feat, David Byrne, Sean Paul, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Dave Koz, Mavis Staples, Marc Broussard, Leela James, Rhiannon Giddens, The California Honeydrops, Vieux Farka Touré, Catherine Russell, Hiromi, Lettuce, Cimafunk, Big Freedia, Jesse Royal, The Deslondes, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Gitkin, Galactic, Butcher Brown, Shinyribs, Sierra Hull, Anders Osborne, Dianne Reeves, Jackie Venson, Leftover Salmon, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Andrew Duhon, Rik Jam, Tuba Skinny, John Beasley, Dumpstaphunk, John Foster, Sue Foley, The Soul Rebels, Jon Cleary, Chris Thomas King, Cowboy Mouth, The Headhunters, J & The Causeways, Grayson Capps, Quiana Lynell, Grace Bowers, Anna Moss, Bonerama, Cha Wa, C.J. Chenier, Kristin Diable, Big Sam's Funky Nation, The Iceman Special, Joy Clark, John "Papa" Gros, Sonny Gullage, Ghalia Volt, Fred Wesley & The New J.B.'s, Kyle Roussel, Lilli Lewis, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Sasha Masakowski, River Eckert, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, Gregg Martinez, Ever More Nest, Samantha Fish, Ani DiFranco, Lake Street Dive, Boyfriend Sushi Town, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, ニコラス・ペイトン, Ziggy Marley, New Breed Brass Band, Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience, Leyla McCalla, Karma & the Killjoys, GA‐20, Kelcy Mae, Stephen Marley, Sweet Crude, Hiromi's Sonicwonder, Poisson Rouge Music, Robin Barnes Music and T' Monde

23 April Apr 2026
New Orleans, United States

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If "gay rapper" is an oxymoron where you come from, how to get your head around the notion of a gay rapper performing in a sports bar? What in most cities might seem plausible only as some sort of Sacha Baron Cohen-style provocation is just another weeknight in the cultural Galapagos that is New Orleans. Sometime after midnight on the sweltering Thursday before Memorial Day, the giant plasma-screen TVs at the Sports Vue bar (which "proudly airs all major Pay Per View events from the world of Boxing and Ultimate Fighting") were all switched off, and the bar's backroom turned into a low-lit, low-ceilinged dance club, where more than 300 people awaited a return engagement by Big Freedia, who by day runs an interior-decoration business and who is, to fans of the New Orleans variant of hip-hop music known as "bounce," a superstar.