[New Orleans] Free outdoor concert during Southern Decadence called off because of monkeypox fears

Nola.com ^ | August 17, 2022 | Keith Spera

[Ebenezer]

The producer of the Bourbon Street Extravaganza, one of Southern Decadence’s signature events, has canceled the free outdoor concert over concerns about the monkeypox virus.

Thousands of revelers were expected to gather Sept. 3 at the corner of Bourbon and St. Ann streets outside the gay bar Napoleon’s Itch to hear dance music diva Jeanie Tracy and other singers.

This was to have been the Bourbon Street Extravaganza’s celebratory return after two years of cancellations prompted by the COVID pandemic.

[EEGator]

That’s nasty.

[ViLaLuz]

Yes. You can actually feel the heavy demonic presence in the air in places of the French Quarter.