The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — known locally as Jazz Fest — is an annual celebration of the music, food, and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana. Held over two weekends at the Fair Grounds Race Course, Jazz Fest showcases a remarkable range of music: jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Afro-Caribbean, folk, Latin, rock, and rap. Founded in 1970, the festival is as much about the food — crawfish Monica, cochon de lait po'boys, mango freeze — as the music. With 100,000+ daily attendance, it is one of the largest and most culturally significant festivals in America, deeply intertwined with the identity of New Orleans.