Forecastle Festival - Louisville, Kentucky

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I'd bet on Outkast being at Voodoo

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One name not on the 2014 roster that many observers assumed would be is Atlanta hip-hop duo OutKast. Principals Antwan "Big Boi" Patton and Andre "Andre 3000" Benjamin announced recently that they would hit the road in 2014 for the first time in more than a decade. Among other events, they are booked at the Coachella festival in southern California in mid-April; at the Counterpoint festival outside Atlanta, which coincides with the first weekend of Jazz Fest; and the Hangout Music Fest in Gulf Shores, Ala., which is May 16-18. Jazz Fest did extend an offer to OutKast late last summer, Davis said. But he was told that the duo would pass through the New Orleans area in the fall of 2013, not the spring of 2014. OutKast's plans and tour routing eventually changed. By the time Davis learned OutKast had shifted to a spring schedule, with appearances at numerous other festivals, it was too late: Another act had already been booked in the Jazz Fest slot originally intended for OutKast. "A lot of water had run under the bridge," Davis said, "and we were going in other directions." As a result, OutKast isn't at Jazz Fest. But a slew of artists who aren't playing other festivals are.

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