Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, The Killers, LCD Soundsystem and DJ Snake will headline the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience when the festival returns to New Orleans’ City Park from October 27 to 29.
Other acts on the bill include Galantis, Dillon Francis, Brand New, The Head and the Heart, Kehlani, Prophets of Rage, Cold War Kids, Marian Hill, The Afghan Whigs, Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, and more. A total of 70 artists will perform across four stages during the event.
A number of prominent artists on the lineup have their own histories with Voodoo Fest, which will mark its 19th edition this fall. Foo Fighters teamed up with Trombone Shorty when they last headlined the festival in 2014, and The Killers performed at the event in 2004 (just as their hit album Hot Fuss was launching them into superstardom). While Prophets of Rage have never played Voodoo, the band is a spin-off project that finds three members of 2007 headliner Rage Against the Machine joining forces with members of Public Enemy and Cypress Hill. Another notable act is funk/soul outfit Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, who pulled out of last year’s Voodoo Fest after singer Charles Bradley was diagnosed with stomach cancer (he has since completed treatment).
Voodoo Fest will also feature a number of New Orleans-based acts, with garage rocker Benjamin Booker, rapper Pell, current OffBeat cover subjects Flow Tribe and rapper Alfred Banks all set to perform at the gathering. The Afghan Whigs guitarist Dave Rosser—who was diagnosed with inoperable colon cancer last year—has called New Orleans home for many years as well.
Voodoo Fest experienced something of a revival last year when the event was produced by Live Nation subsidiary C3 Present for the first time. The festival drew a much larger crowd than it had in recent years, a feat that earned it Best Large Festival honors at the 2016 Best of the Beat Awards.
Three-day tickets to Voodoo Fest 2017 will go on sale this Friday, June 6. The full lineup can be found via the festival’s website or the graphic below.
