{"id":234340,"date":"2026-04-04T01:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234340\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:40:06","slug":"durand-jones-to-headline-2026-frontier-fiesta-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234340\/","title":{"rendered":"Durand Jones to headline 2026 Frontier Fiesta concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262287\" data-attachment-id=\"262287\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thedailycougar.com\/2026\/04\/03\/durand-jones-to-headline-2026-frontier-fiesta-concert\/durand_jones__the_indications_am_haldern_pop_festival_2019-07_-_foto_martin_schumann\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Durand_Jones__the_Indications_am_Haldern_Pop_Festival_2019-07_-_Foto_Martin_Schumann.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1620,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Martin Schumann&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Martin Schumann, martinschumann@posteo.de&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Durand_Jones_&amp;_the_Indications_am_Haldern_Pop_Festival_2019-07_-_Foto_Martin_Schumann\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Courtsey of Martin Schumann through Wikimedia Commons licensed with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/thedailycougar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Durand_Jones__the_Indications_am_Haldern_Pop_Festival_2019-07_-_Foto_Martin_Schumann-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/thedailycougar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Durand_Jones__the_Indications_am_Haldern_Pop_Festival_2019-07_-_Foto_Martin_Schumann-620x413.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-262287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Durand_Jones__the_Indications_am_Haldern_Pop_Festival_2019-07_-_Foto_Martin_Schumann.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-262287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Durand_Jones_%26_the_Indications_am_Haldern_Pop_Festival_2019-07_-_Foto_Martin_Schumann.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Schumann<\/a> through Wikimedia Commons licensed with <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWrlGGhkSPX\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UH Student Program Board announced Durand Jones<\/a> as the 2026 headliner for Frontier Fiesta on April 18 at 10:00 p.m. at the Budlight Stage.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is a soul singer from Hillaryville, Louisiana, who studied classical music and jazz at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana State University<\/a> before continuing graduate studies at the <a href=\"https:\/\/music.indiana.edu\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana University Jacobs School of Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He began his music career after being asked to sing on a class project at Indiana University, which led to the formation of <a href=\"https:\/\/durandjonesandtheindications.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Durand Jones &amp; The Indications<\/a> in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The group was nominated for the <a href=\"https:\/\/liberaawards.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Libera Awards<\/a> for best R&amp;B album in 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Jones released his debut solo album, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadoceans.com\/releases\/wait-til-i-get-over\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wait Til I Get Over<\/a>, in 2023, reflecting on his upbringing in Louisiana and his experience leaving home and staying connected to his roots.<\/p>\n<p>news@thedailycougar.com<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of Martin Schumann through Wikimedia Commons licensed with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 The UH Student Program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[90529,90530,56,58,57,90531],"class_list":{"0":"post-234340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-durand-jones","9":"tag-frontier-fiesta","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-uh-program-board"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}