The 2025 Crawfish Fest features multiple Grammy Award-winning and nominated musicians and legends in their own right, including: Galatic featuring Jelly Joseph, touring in support of their new album Audience with the Queen; George Porter Jr and  Runnin’ Pardners, supporting their new album, Porter’s Pocket; Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, touring in support of their new album The Bywater Sessions; two-time Grammy winner Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience; drummer extraordinaire, Stanton Moore; famed New Orleans vocalist-pianist, Marcia Ball;  one of today’s hottest new blues-roots groups, Southern Avenue, tour supporting their new album, Family; New Orleans’ brass-funk rockers, Bonerama; Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr. and the Zydeco Twisters, who released More Fun With Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr. and the Zydeco Twisters in late 2024; veteran blues bandleader-guitarist, Corey Harris; Texas guitarist Carolyn Wonderland, whose new album Truth Is, drops mid-May;  New Orleans vocalist formerly of Galactic, Maggie Koerner; Eddie 9V, who released Saratoga on Ruf Records mid-2024; Cajun band Amis Du Teche; jazz-blues funk-sters, Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes; developmentally-challenged group United By Music USA (promoting their most recent Alligator 2024 release, We’ve Got The Music; New Jersey’s own Ocean Avenue Stompers; seven-piuece rock group, Cold Hill; and Uncle Shoehorn’s Big Easy, a Hudson Valley-based band who pays tribute to New Orleans heritage music. The full stage schedule can be found on the Crawfish Fest website.

 All the 2025 Crawfish Fest artists and chefs are being interviewed by Alison Kaufman, CFF Emcee, Host of Morning Mojo on WNCI-FM and writer for several music magazines, beginning Thursday, April 24. Kaufman’s first guest is Crawfish Fest Producer/Creator, Michael Arnone. Every few days until the Crawfish Fest, Alison’s interviews will be broadcast on Crawfish Fest’s social media at (facebook.com/people/Michael-Arnones-Crawfish-Fest-in-Sussex-County-NJ/100064471698647/#.

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