180,000 First started in 1999, it was last held in October 2019, after being canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, and canceled in 2022 without explanation. The Voodoo Experience has hosted a wide variety of artists, and has had as many as 180,000 festival-goers in 2018.

Voodoo incorporates musical elements of jazz, funk, hip hop, blues, and soul, as well as ambient music with a musical layer shaped by guitar-based funk. It features vintage influences and a looser, more improvisational structure, which contrasts the more conventional song structure of Brown Sugar.

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY), about 12 miles away from where the multi-day music and arts festival is held in City Park in New Orleans. Where are the Where are the the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience festival grounds? New Orleans City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

The festival was started in 1999 with a line up that included Dr. John who has since become a Voodoo veteran making an appearance every few years, Train, and Third Eye Blind.

The Voodoo Music + Arts Experience will take a "pause" in 2022, according to organizers.

The cancellation of the 2022 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience caught many fans by surprise. Not Steve Rehage. Voodoo's founder and minority owner says the festival's fate was essentially sealed 18 months ago, when he declined to sell his 49% share to Live Nation Entertainment for less than what he thought it was worth.

Voodoo comes from the Louisiana French voudou, ultimately from a West African language. "Voodoo." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/voodoo. Accessed 16 Oct. 2023.

The festival is drawing people of African descent to discover the religion and land of their enslaved ancestors. Every year in Benin, locals celebrate a festival in tribute to the deities of Voodoo, the Indigenous religion that worships natural spirits and reveres ancestors.

Steve Rehage, Voodoo Fest founder, out at Live Nation.

The subsequent cancellation of the 2021 Voodoo wasn't surprising: All of New Orleans' major festivals took the year off because of the lingering COVID pandemic.

Programs are typically canceled for financial reasons; low viewership or listenership will lead to lower advertising or subscription revenue, prompting networks to replace it with another show with the potential to turn a larger profit.

voodoo. Informal: Sometimes Offensive. characterized by deceptively simple, almost as if magical, solutions or ideas: voodoo economics.