Cage The Elephant brought boundless energy to the Shell Gentilly Stage on Thursday, May 1, 2025 on the opening day of the second weekend at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
It was great to watch front man Matt Shultz bounding across the stage in his traditional fashion.
The last time SWOMP covered the Kentucky rockers, at Pine Knob in Clarkston, Michigan back in September, Shultz was still in a full walking boot, wheeling around the stage in a knee roller, after breaking his leg earlier in the year.
SWOMP was in the middle of the New Orleans crowd to capture these photos from their performance:
JazzFest continues May 2-4, 2025.
More details are available at https://www.nojazzfest.com/.