MELISSA ETHERIDGE

2022 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - Weekend 2 - Day 1 Festivalgoers are seen at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, on Thursday, May 5, 2022, in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP) (Amy Harris)NEW ORLEANS — (AP) — Willie Nelson is cancelling an upcoming performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival and postponing other shows after a positive case of the coronavirus in his band. The news comes after Melissa Etheridge announced Thursday that she would not be able to perform Saturday at Jazz Fest due to “COVID hitting my crew." COVID heartbreak,” tweeted Etheridge after news that Staples would appear on Saturday was announced. The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported that Porter played multiple shows during Jazz Fest's first weekend and had a number of performances scheduled outside the festival during the second weekend.

Willie Nelson is cancelling an upcoming performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival and postponing other shows after a positive case of the coronavirus in his band.

Melissa Etheridge is taking a trip down memory lane but unlike most of us, the rock musician’s nostalgic reverie has sparked more than memories. It led to her latest national tour.

As part of her “One Way Out” tour, Melissa Etheridge will perform in Orlando at 7:30 p.m. on May 1.

But for Karen Pearl, God’s Love We Deliver’s president and CEO, what this one night generates for her group year-round is what makes it even more special. Pearl says God's Love We Deliver will provide about 2.6 million meals this year to more than 10,000 people. Happily, we never had to stop.”Greg Williamson, co-executive producer of Love Rocks NYC, said there are plenty of ways charities can fundraise, but concerts are something special. God's Love leaders count themselves lucky that their Love Rocks benefit was one of the last indoor benefits before the COVID-19 lockdowns and one of the first major in-person indoor benefits as pandemic restrictions relax. “Providing that sort of resource, that nutrition for people who couldn’t get it, that’s just God’s Love.

This year’s Love Rocks, which takes place at The Beacon Theatre in Manhattan Thursday night, boasts enormous star power – including headliners Melissa Etheridge, Keith Richards, with his “other” band The X-Pensive Winos, Mavis Staples, and others.

This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from producer and multiinstrumentalist Jack Antonoff and Billie Eilish, whose upcoming “Happier Than Ever” is the second studio album from the 19-year-old superstar.

Proceeds go to Live Nations Crew Nation, Drug Policy Alliance, and Americans for Safe Access. 4 p.m.11 a.m.Tommy Chong and Thievery Corporation's Rob Garza, along with Too Short, Citizen Cope and loads more. Proceeds benefit Covid-19 first respondersDragondeer, Dopapod, Star Kitchen, SPAGAand comedianscome together to celebrate the day and raise money for t he Payback, the Angel Relief Fund, the Colorado COVD Relief Fund, and the Colorado Comedy Relief Fund. Also a benefit for the Last Prisoner Project.It may not be a fest, but rapper Snoop Dogg is celebrating 420 in a very befitting manner. The Doggfather (as DJ Snoopadelic) is taking to Instagram Live for a special DJ set celebrating his epochal 1992 collaboration with Dr. Dre,A constellation of musiciansDance Party Time Machine, Ghost-Live, DJ Logic,EDM-heavy all-dayer features Skratch Bastid,