Will Jazzfest Improve This Year?

The Jazzfest lineup rumors thread got me thinking. Will Jazzfest actually improve this year? Will the lineup actually progress or return to the glory days of the 80s and early 90s? I’ve come to the same conclusion every year: Jazzfest is always overhyped. For the past ten years, they’ve been getting really shitty headliners. It’s Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Cee Lo Green or some crap like that every year. The only good acts are the local tents (blues, jazz, fais do do) and why pay $75 to go see good, local acts that you can see for $5 every week? It’s really only become a place for frat boys, dads wearing ray bans/Hawaiian shirts/fedoras and Yankees to go and try to look cool like we’re still living in the 70s. I think Santana/ Phish / Eric Clapton this year was the catalyst of the decline.. those were some of the worst festival sets I’ve seen during my lifetime. On top of the ”has-been” stacked lineup, the fairgrounds is a piece of shite. Literally. I don’t understand how anyone could enjoy going to an overcrowded festival where there is horse shite everywhere. The place is ugly as sin (even for a horse racing track) and gives visitors a poor representation of the city. When I think jazzfest, I think of spring in city park, not spending my whole weekend drinking over-priced beer in a horse track that smells like shite. It’s always hot as frick, dusty, muddy, and the sound is always terrible. The soundsystem is about 10 years past due for an upgrade. For a city with such a unique amount of music talent, New Orleans fricking sucks. They don’t even have a real outdoor venue or amphitheater. At least Baton Rouge has an amphitheater. Hopefully, Jazzfest can get their shite together this year, but I’m really not feeling too optimistic about it.