R.E.M., STP, NIN, more headline Voodoo Music Experience

With this year’s Jazz & Heritage Fest already halfway over, another New Orleans music extravaganza is already shaping up. The 10th New Orleans Voodoo Music Experience will be held October 24-26 at New Orleans’ City Park with R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots set to headline.

The Neville Brothers, New Orleans’ First Family of Funk, returned to New Orleans for their first performance since Katrina for this year’s Jazz Fest and will make their first appearance at Voodoo Fest this year as well. Other local acts including the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Irving Mayfield’s New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and the New Orleans Bingo! Show.

The annual event began in 1999 and has grown in size to become the weekend-long blowout of music, food, crafts and New Orleans culture it is today. Last year’s festival featured Rage Against the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, Ben Harper, M.I.A., Galactic and many more. Tickets for the 2008 Voodoo Music Experience will go on sale this Friday (May 2).

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