If you live in Louisiana and want to see the Rolling Stones at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, it's almost time to break out the credit card.
A limited number of single-day Jazz Fest tickets for Thursday, May 2 – the day the Rolling Stones are slated to headline – go on sale to Louisiana residents Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 1 p.m. Central Time for $225 plus fees.
The Louisiana residents presale ends Thursday, Nov. 30 at 10 p.m.
Residents with a Louisiana billing zip code attached to the credit card used for the purchase can buy as many as six single-day tickets.
General admission four-day weekend passes go on sale to the general public Friday, Dec. 1 at 10 a.m.
Whether or not the general public can buy single-day tickets for Rolling Stones Thursday is to be determined, pending availability.
A Rolling Stones flag flies under a New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival flag at the Acura Stage during Widespread Panic's performance at the Fair Grounds on Thursday, May 2, 2019, the day the Rolling Stones were originally scheduled to perform at Jazz Fest.
An "early bird" four-day general admission wristband for Jazz Fest's second weekend, including the Rolling Stones day, is $465 plus fees. The price increases to $495 after the early bird offer expires.
A four-day Jazz Fest first weekend "early bird" wristband is $290; the price then increases to $320.
Jazz Fest has a new "general admission-plus" option for 2024. GA+ wristbands grant access to a covered lounge with private restrooms, a full-service bar and shaded areas; the GA+ wristband also grants re-entry to the Fair Grounds.
The early-bird pricing for GA+ wristbands is $499 for the first weekend, $749 for the second weekend, plus fees. The prices bump up to $549 and $799.
The festival's various VIP packages are also available starting Dec. 1.
All tickets will be sold at www.nojazzfest.com.
The 2024 Jazz opens on Thursday, April 25. That will be "Locals Thursday": Louisiana residents can buy single-day tickets for $50 at the Fair Grounds gate that day.
Tickets for the 2024 Jazz Fest's second Thursday, May 2, are considerably more expensive due to the presence of the Rolling Stones.
The Stones were initially booked for the 50th anniversary Jazz Fest in 2019; they were to have headlined a specially structured Thursday at the Fair Grounds. But the Jazz Fest stop on the band’s No Filter Tour was scuttled so singer Mick Jagger could have heart valve replacement surgery.
Instead, the Stones performed at the Superdome on July 15, 2019, after postponing that concert by a day because of the threat of Hurricane Barry.
The Stones were then a surprise addition to the roster of the 2021 Jazz Fest, which had been moved to October of that year because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the entire 2021 Jazz Fest ended up being canceled because of COVID.
Jagger and company will try again as part of the 16-date Hackney Diamonds Tour.