Music for Halloween weekend includes two nights of a jam band at the Lakefront Arena and a multinight modern jazz festival.
WIDESPREAD PANIC
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, LAKEFRONT ARENA
In 1997, Georgia jam band Widespread Panic established a tradition of performing at the Lakefront Arena on what is now the LSU New Orleans campus on Halloween weekend. Over the next six years, Panic built up to playing three consecutive nights at the Lakefront Arena. In the early years of the tradition, fans were allowed to camp on the arena grounds, creating a temporary village reminiscent of the parking lots at Grateful Dead concerts…