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If you stripped the visiting headliners from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival schedule, switched the oil company presenting sponsor, moved it downtown and eliminated tickets, the result would closely resemble the 2024 French Quarter Festival. You won’t find the Rolling Stones, Chris Stapleton, Queen Latifah or Earth Wind & Fire at the 41st French Quarter Fest presented by Chevron, which opens Thursday and continues through Sunday. But you will sample a bounty of 270 musical acts, drawn almost exclusively from New Orleans and south Louisiana, on 21 stages...