Drum Workshop, Inc. (DW) in conjunction with Latin Percussion (LP) are delighted to be gear support sponsors for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest) 2022. Jazz Fest takes place over two weekends, 29th April to 1st May and 5th to 8th May 2022, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, LA. The first-ever concert event was held in 1970 in Congo Square New Orleans, the open area space where enslaved African Americans gathered on Sundays in the early 1880s to create sounds that ultimately influenced all American Music. The inaugural event, featuring legendary artists such as Fats Domino and Duke Ellington had a modest audience of hundreds. Today the event is one of the nation’s largest spectaculars with an annual attendance of over half a million. Over the half century, many globally renowned artists have played DW and LP instruments at the festival, with this […]

May 2022 Issue