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Voodoo fest wraps up with Lenny Kravitz

Reported by: Shelley Brown, Weekend Anchor
Email: sbrown@fox8tv.net
Last Update: 11/02/2009 1:09 am
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New Orleans - The festival has grown over the years in attendance.

 

Eight thousand people hit voodoo in year one back in 1990 and this year, attendance numbers are expected to top 150,000 for the festival's 10-year anniversary. Thousands poured in to City Park Sunday for the Voodoo fest finale. 

 

"You can check out Trombone Shorty, then you can go see Lenny Kravitz or you can go check out acountry band, then go check out a jazz band," said Blake Thomas a Baton Rouge Resident.  

 

Lenny Kravitz drew huge crowds to wrap up the night and local favorite Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue was also a huge hit.   

 

"It’s always getting better especially this year. I get to hang out with Uncle Lenny, hang out with him, see him play," said Andrews.  

 

Troy "Trombone Shorty"Andrews played with Kravitz on his world tour back in 2005. He says playing voodoo together is pretty cool. Plus, this is a homecoming for Shorty and his band.

 

"We’re working on a record. We just finished touring. We did about 150 dates so we're just home and relaxing and recording happy to be home,” said Shorty.

 

Dodging the mud became a bit of a balancing act for voodoo visitors but most were prepared. A wrap-up to a weekend some say is much more than a "music" experience.

 

"It's also Halloween weekend, which is the one weekend where you can be whoever you want  to be," said Kyle Golden.  

 

Steve Rehage with Rehage Entertainment put together the first voodoo fest back in 1999, which also fell on Halloween weekend. It was only a one-day festival then and was held in Tad Gormley Stadium.

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