Jazz Festival Goes On

Jazz Fest
5/8/06
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The 37th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival ended.
The six-day event included local musicians from New Orleans as well as others including Jimmy Buffett, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon.
Organizers have not announced how many attended; the event usually brings out around five hundred thousand people.
The New Orleans Fair Ground Race Course is where the festival was hosted.
During the height of the flooding the Race Course was under five feet of water.
A number of musicians returned to New Orleans for the jazz festival, for some this is the first time they are returning since Hurricane Katrina.
Performer Fat Domino was a headliner for the jazz festival.
Domino did make an appearance at the festival, but he did not perform.
It was his first visit to New Orleans since Domino was rescued by boat when Katrina hit on August 29th.(Written for broadcast)