Beignet Fest announces music lineup

Beignet Fest is making a comeback on Saturday, September 24, at the City Park Festival Grounds with a standout musical lineup. Along with its main stage, the festival will add a second stage in its Kids Village for families to enjoy this year.

Entertainment for the 2022 Beignet Fest is sponsored by the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund and includes:

Main Stage
11 a.m. Imagination Movers
12:30 p.m. Dave Jordan and NIA
2 p.m. Water Seed
3:30 p.m. Shamarr Allen
5 p.m. Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Kids Stage
10:15 a.m. Connie Collins Morgan
12 p.m. Katy Ray
1:30 p.m. Connie Collins Morgan reading The Runaway Beignet
3 p.m. Johnette Downing

“The entertainment for the 2022 Beignet Fest has a little bit of everything from hip hop, blues and soul to legendary New Orleans brass bands, so everyone is destined to find something that fits their groove,” said Sherwood Collins, festival founder and executive director. “The Kids Village stage is something we have wanted to add for a couple of years now as we really focus on being the most family-friendly festival around in keeping with our charitable mission.”

The 2022 Beignet Fest marks the first time the organization and the community can unite since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020. Along with the musical lineup, food vendors will be a big part of the festival. The complete list of food vendors and menu items will be released at a later date.

All proceeds from Beignet Fest benefit the nonprofit Beignet Fest Foundation. The mission of the Beignet Fest Foundation is to celebrate, embrace and enhance the lives of children with developmental delays and disabilities by presenting them as whole beings, and to support organizations that do the same. Each year, the Beignet Fest Foundation makes grants to support New Orleans-area programs that serve children with development delays.

Tickets to Beignet Fest will go on sale August 1. Advance adult tickets will be $20, and children 12 and under will be admitted free with a paid adult. For more information about Beignet Fest, visit beignetfest.com.