According to organizers, the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience will “take a break” in 2022.
Voodoo Music + Arts Experience fans will have to wait a little longer before the festival returns to New Orleans.
On Friday, organizers confirmed in a statement on social media and the festival’s website. That the event would not be held this year, calling it a “hiatus.”
New Orleans’ major spring festivals — the Jazz and Heritage Festival. The French Quarter Festival, and the BOOK Music + Art Project — all return in 2022 after two years of absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And the Essence Culture Festival is planned for a private return weekend first of July. In addition, voodoo Fest is an annual festival in City Park featuring national and local artists. It attracts many young people from the city and beyond and is usually held on Halloween weekend.
The organizers did not give a reason for the cancellation but said more updates would be share on social media.
The last festival was in October 2019, five months before the end of the pandemic.
Voodoo was a thing before the coronavirus pandemic. Total attendance for the three-day 2018 20th anniversary celebrations, which included Mumford & Sons, Travis Scott. Janelle Monae, and the Arctic Monkeys, was report as 180,000 in 2016 and 2017. And a more significant jump from year to year. Earlier, says The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Lawyer.
Neither Don Kelly, who has direct Voodoo for the past several years nor a spokesperson for C3 Presents. The show’s producers, did not respond to reports seeking comment on the cancellation of 2022 and its possible implications for the festival’s future.
One person frustrated by the disappearance of Voodoo is Jeff Bourne. Whose company runs the Mortuary Haunted House and has been lending the festival its Halloween flair for several years.
Participating in Voodoo “is an amazing experience,” says Bourne.