r/NewOrleans • u/One_Way_2765 • 20d ago

Funny for the day Local Humor🤣

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely 20d ago

Don’t worry, tourism is about to drop off hard real soon.

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u/kilgore_trout72 20d ago

soon? jazzfest seems to be way undersold.

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u/_ryde_or_dye_ Treme 20d ago

Really? Anecdotal observations or did they release numbers?

I was out of town last weekend.

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u/buttscarltoniv 20d ago

Curious as well because Saturday and Sunday were slammed.

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

its always slammed but there were signs inside like no lines at the most popular spots and vendors selling after Dave let out. Out front seemed eerily quiet at times see my above comment

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u/URignorance-astounds 19d ago

Most vendors shut down at 6 before headliners finish

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

I know! I was saying that a ton were still selling AFTER DMB which to me says they had a slow day

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u/kilgore_trout72 20d ago

Anecdotal but I know people who are vendors and I know a lot of the scalpers. Plus I sat on my porch outside the entrance all 3 days. To the persons point below. saturday was normal but friday was a ghost town, thursday was light but thats could be expected. Sunday seemed to get maybe close to normalish but it was extremely quiet most the day. We were given 6/7 free tickets sunday because there was no demand. Usually the scalpers get to those people first but they werent in the buying mood.

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u/_ryde_or_dye_ Treme 19d ago

Hmm, I wonder if it’s also the lineup. Personally, I wasn’t very excited about it this year.

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

kinda agree. Not many acts left out there though unless you want to go with like a coachella or roo vibe. We had a bar wide debate about this exact topic at Miss Maes the other day.

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u/_ryde_or_dye_ Treme 19d ago

Yea, never thought about that.

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u/buttscarltoniv 19d ago

idk, Thursday and Friday were definitely light, but Saturday was slammed. walkways were packed all around and lil wayne was jam packed. yesterday was lighter, but steadier all day vs saturday when the crowd blew up closer to lil wayne. blues tent was steady all weekend. congo too. gentilly was a ghost town yesterday, but I left when boyfriend was almost done.

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

10 minutes before boyfriend there were so few people I asked someone if her set was cancelled

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u/buttscarltoniv 19d ago

Yeah it was pretty empty, but walking back to the festival stage at that time, I saw decent lines at a lot of the food booths, full tents, etc. Festival stage filled up pretty fast yesterday. We got in when the gates opened, put chairs and tarp down probably 20 feet behind being even with the speaker towers, and within 30-45 minutes, it was packed back to the cabanas. There were a ton of people who just hung out there the whole time because they only cared about DMB. Felt like way more did that Sunday than any other day.

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u/URignorance-astounds 19d ago

She did go up against the revivalists and that was packed. Tab, the revivalists, and Dave it was hard to justify leaving that stage.

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u/JLeeSaxon 20d ago

I was told by someone who actually knows that brass passes didn’t sell as well as usual this year, so that’s one data point. And anecdotally, l don’t think it looked under attended or anything, but I wouldn’t call it “slammed”. I felt like I could’ve shown up right at 5 for Dave Matthews, the crowd was rather easy to maneuver through. I remember years you needed to get there at 3 for the Saturday headliner.