Best of the Beat™ 2022 Schedule

Update (November 10, 11:40 a.m.): Bluesman Vasti Jackson added to Little Freddie King tribute on the Best of the Beat™ 2022 Schedule. Jackson is Little Freddie’s cousin.

Best of the Beat Schedule

The 26th annual Best of The Beat™ Music Awards is tonight at the New Orleans Jazz Museum from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Join us as we honor artists nominated by the local music community and voted on by the public for excellence in music in 2021 and 2022. Read up on the nominees for each category here.

The Best of the Beat™ 2022 schedule will include a Tribute to Little Freddie King (2022 Lifetime Achievement in Music Recipient) with Lulu and the Broadsides plus Johnny Sansone, Sunpie Barnes and Andy J. Forest; Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen; swamp-pop legend Tommy McLain and C.C. Adcock; Bo Dollis, Jr. & the Wild Magnolias; the New Orleans Baby Dolls; Kings of Brass (winners of this year’s Red Bull Street King competition); The Pathways Quartet; the Daiquiri Queens; the Joy Clark Band, and more special surprise guests.

Tickets are available at the door and here.