The 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is over, but the music plays on. Here are options for live music this week.
ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION
THURSDAY, SAENGER THEATRE
Throughout a prolific, Grammy-laden career, singer and fiddler Alison Krauss has interwoven Appalachian tradition and contemporary country songcraft. She and her ace combo, Union Station, can conjure a deep-in-the-holler hoedown or a tragic tale of hardship and woe as skillfully as anyone.
Alison Krauss July 13 Saenger Theatre Tickets to be swayed by the bluegrass siren: $49 to $90 (Photo by Brett Duke, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
On adult contemporary pop fare such as “Paper Airplane,” Krauss brings to bear an effortless precision and a lovely, bright voice, one that manages to be simultaneously delicate and steely. On her 2017 solo album “Windy City,” she recreated classic country songs by the likes of Willie Nelson, Brenda Lee, the Osborne Brothers, Glen Campbell and Bill Monroe. Her latest release is 2025’s “Arcadia.”
Beyond her own considerable skills, her Union Station ensemble is a band of aces, including world-class dobro player Jerry Douglas, who has worked with her since the 1990s. Krauss has presided over three excellent sets at Jazz Fest over the past couple decades. She and Robert Plant showcased their bewitching album “Raising Sand” at the Fair Grounds in 2008. Krauss then fronted Union Station at the Gentilly Stage in 2015 and came back to the Fair Grounds with Plant again in 2023. She just missed the 2026 Jazz Fest but will hold court with Union Station on Thursday at the Saenger Theatre. Theo Lawrence opens. Tickets start at $41.
MOLLY TUTTLE & MAGGIE ROSE
SATURDAY, TIPITINA’S
Molly Tuttle and Maggie Rose, simpatico artists with roots in Americana/bluegrass music, are playing only eight co-headlining shows this spring. One of them is Saturday at Tipitina’s.
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway perform on the Fais Do-Do Stage during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Friday, May 5, 2023. (Photo by Brett Duke, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
STAFF PHOTO BY BRETT DUKE
The pairing makes a lot of sense. Tuttle hails from the little-known bluegrass hotspot that is Palo Alto, California. She grew up in a family of musicians led by her father, multi-instrumentalist Jack Tuttle. By 15, she’d joined the family band as a guitarist and banjo player. Fluent in the cross-picking, clawhammer and flatpicking styles of guitar, in 2017, she became the first woman to be named Guitar Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association.
She has led a series of bands, including Golden Highway, whose 2023 album “City of Gold” won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Golden Highway broke up in 2025; Tuttle subsequently released the album “So Long Little Miss Sunshine.”
A native of Maryland, Maggie Rose gained national traction early in her career with a cover of Kings of Leon’s “Use Somebody.” Recording for various labels, she intermingled rock, pop, soul and Americana/country music. In 2016, she collaborated with Cash Money Records producer and New Orleans native Mannie Fresh on the Dallas Davidson track “Laid Back.” Leaning into the pop-soul shadings in her voice, she has appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville more than 50 times. Her fourth studio album, 2024’s “No One Gets Out Alive,” was nominated for a Best Americana Album Grammy.
Over the years, Rose and Tuttle have shared stages, and Tuttle was a guest on Rose’s “Salute the Songbird” podcast. On Saturday, they’re joined by New Orleans teenage piano phenom River Eckert and The Pernikoff Brothers. The show starts at 8 p.m.; tickets are $37.50.
OTHER NOTEWORTHY SHOWSTHURSDAY
Billed as “4 legends, 1 stage,” “The Queens” tour brings together four stars of classic R&B, soul and pop: Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan and Stephanie Mills. The show was originally scheduled for Feb. 19 at the Smoothie King Center but was postponed until Thursday. Tickets start at $96.
New Orleans trombonist Stephen Walker has toured and/or recorded with Harry Connick Jr., Branford Marsalis, Trombone Shorty, Irvin Mayfield, Nicholas Payton and many other artists even as he developed his own voice on his instrument. On Thursday, he celebrates the release of his new “Swing In New Orleans: The Trad Jazz Sessions Vol. 1” with shows at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro. Tickets are $30.
Zydeco accordionist Sean Ardoin is at Chickie Wah Wah starting at 8 p.m.; tickets are $15 plus fees.
FRIDAY
The Soul Rebels fire up the brass at Tipitina’s. Pocket Chocolate opens the show at 9 p.m. Tickets start at $25.
New Orleans-based saxophonist Brad Walker is equally at home onstage with Americana star Sturgill Simpson, roots rock guitar hero Anders Osborne or just about any jazz ensemble. At Snug Harbor on Friday, Walker presents “Mysteries: The Music of Keith Jarrett,” a salute to the legendary pianist who worked with Charles Mingus and Miles Davis as well as his own influential groups; Jarrett’s 1975 album “The Köln Concert” is among the best-selling solo piano albums of all time. Show times on Friday are at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.; tickets are $40.
SATURDAY
Saxophonist Victor Goines, a longtime member of the Wynton Marsalis Sextet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, leads his own quartet at Snug Harbor at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
SUNDAY
Percussionist Jafet Pérez, born in the Dominican Republic but based in New Orleans since 2020, is featured at Snug Harbor at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $30.
MONDAY
Multi-disciplinary indie rock singer-songwriter and occasional fashion guru Ethel Cain brings “The Willoughby Tucker Forever Tour” to the Orpheum Theater on Monday and Tuesday. Tickets start at $62.
Rapper HaSizzle and the To Be Continued Brass Band team up at Chickie Wah Wah at 8 p.m. Monday. Tickets are $15 plus fees.
TUESDAY
Drew and Ellie Holcomb bring their Never Gonna Let You Go Tour to the Joy Theater. Tickets start at $30.
After a busy Jazz Fest, Galactic drummer Stanton Moore shifts to modern jazz mode for two shows with keyboardist David Torkanowsky and bassist James Singleton at Snug Harbor, starting at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $30.
Ethel Cain is back at the Orpheum.
WEDNESDAY
David Ramirez is at Chickie Wah Wah with Lauren Victoria starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 plus fees.