Buku Brings Festivals Back to New Orleans This Weekend
Tame Impala and Tyler, the Creator
The schedules and highlights from the festival at Mardi Gras World Friday and Saturday.
When the Buku Music + Arts Project opens on Friday, it will be the first official festival to take place in New Orleans since the outbreak of COVID. Technically, the hybrid barbecue cook-off/Americana festival Hogs for the Cause—which returns to the UNO Lakefront Arena Grounds on April 1 and 2—came first when it took place in Belle Chasse last year, but Buku is the first pure festival to get back to business.
Evidently fans are ready since the two-day event at Mardi Gras World with headliners Tame Impala on Friday and Tyler, the Creator on Saturday is approaching a sell-out.
This year’s festival still takes place at Mardi Gras World, but it has been reconfigured, as is obvious to anyone who drove Tchoupltioulas on Thursday. This year, Buku has created more space for the main stage by having its back face the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Henderson, moving more of the festival away from the riverfront.
We have the daily schedules and a list of our priorities for the weekend. I expect we’ll end up seeing a lot more than this, but these are the shows we’ll work around. The schedule is subject to change.
My Spilt Milk will have a review of Tame Impala on Saturday, Tyler, the Creator on Sunday, and our last notes on Buku on Monday.
FRIDAY
100 Gecs
Skyline Stage
3:40 p.m.
Lady Lavender
Ballroom Stage
4:15 p.m.
BluShakurX
Riverside Stage
5:15 p.m.
Trippie Redd
Skyline Stage
6:10 p.m.
Porter Robinson
Skyline Stage
8 p.m.
$uicideboy$
Bridge Stage
8:50 p.m.
Tierra Whack
Ballroom Stage
9:40 p.m.
Tame Impala
Skyline Stage
9:45 p.m.
SATURDAY
Flo Milli
Skyline Stage
4:45 p.m.
Vince Staples
Bridge Stage
5:30 p.m.
Baby Keem
Bridge Stage
7 p.m.
Glass Animals
Skyline Stage
7:50 p.m.
Kali Uchis
Bridge Stage
8:50 p.m.
NCognita
Riverside Stage
9:10 p.m.
Tyler, The Creator
Skyline Stage
9:45 p.m.
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