Bayou Boogaloo to charge $10 admission for the first time to cover city fee, organizers say

Bayou Boogaloo, the annual Mid-City music, food and arts festival scheduled for Friday-Sunday (May 17-19), will charge admission for the first time, according to a festival spokesperson. The fee of $10 per day or $20 for all three days was made necessary by “a radical increase in land use fees from the City of New Orleans,” according to the spokesman.

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Why — for first time ever — Bayou Boogaloo to charge admission for popular New Orleans festival

Be prepared to pay up for Bayou Boogaloo this weekend.

For the first time in its 14-year history, the Bayou St. John music festival — known as much for  the wild floating creations launched on the bayou by attendees as for its bands — will have a required entry fee when gates open this Friday.

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