New Orleans Jazz Fest, Blues & the World's Greatest Music Festival

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (the annual festival held at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans during the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May — the most celebrated music festival in the United States after Coachella and the most musically diverse): the Jazz Fest (as it is universally known) has been held continuously since 1970 (when it was founded by George Wein, the jazz impresario who also founded the Newport Jazz Festival and the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park) and has grown from a small local event to one of the most important music festivals in the world.