Melissa Etheridge will perform in the Blues Tent at Jazz Fest on Saturday, May 7, at 5:30 p.m.

“I never thought that I would not have the ability to play for an audience for that long,” says Melissa Etheridge, looking back on the last two years of the pandemic shutdown. “I always said, ‘Well, you know, if everything came down, crashing down, I could always go out on the street and put a hat down and make enough...