The Big Easy Cruise — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

16–23 Jan 2027 (8 days)

Location

Cruise Ship (Eurodam), Hollywood, United States

Sound

Blues · Jazz · Roots Music

Tickets

€1,011 – €1,379 · 2 tiers tracked

Nearest airport

Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

Line-up announced

33 artists so far

The story

The Big Easy Cruise is an annual music festival at sea that takes place in Hollywood, United States. It features a diverse lineup of artists primarily from New Orleans and surrounding regions, focusing on music, food, and interactive experiences. The festival is set on a cruise ship, offering a unique setting that combines leisure with entertainment, and takes place over several days with various activities planned. It is designed to create an atmosphere of fun, camaraderie, and cultural celebration.

The Big Easy Cruise is a 8-day blues, jazz, roots music festival at Cruise Ship (Eurodam) in Hollywood, United States. The January 2027 edition runs 16–23 Jan 2027.

Announced so far: Al "Lil Fats" Jackson, Anders Osborne, Andrew Duhon, Blind Boys of Alabama, Chef Kevin Belton, Co-Host Cole Williams, Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel and Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers and 25 more. Expect stages split between Blues, Jazz and Roots Music. The line-up is spread across the 8 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

Everything happens at Cruise Ship (Eurodam), in Hollywood. Hollywood is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.

The Big Easy Cruise keeps the same calendar slot each year: January 2027 for this edition, opening on a Saturday and closing on a Saturday. It is a winter date, so indoor stages and a warm place to sleep matter more than they would in July — and off-season travel is often cheaper. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Hollywood are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

• 4th annual festival in 2027
• Round-the-clock concerts & entertainment
• Interactive events with artists
• New Orleans themed events
• Exciting ports of call including San Juan and Philipsburg
• Luxury accommodations on the Eurodam

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to The Big Easy Cruise works out at roughly €2,640 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 38% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 13h 41m each way, at €909 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at The Big Easy Cruise are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 9 nights rather than 8: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4If you fly into Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, check the transfer time to Hollywood before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow The Big Easy Cruise on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Saturday 16 January

  Al "Lil Fats" Jackson, Erica Falls & Vintage Soul, Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, River Eckert, The Tin Men

• Day 2 — Sunday 17 January

  Anders Osborne, Frenchy, Keb' Mo', Robert Randolph

• Day 3 — Monday 18 January

  Andrew Duhon, Galactic ft. Jelly Joseph, Kenny Neal, Sally Baby's Silver Dollars

• Day 4 — Tuesday 19 January

  Blind Boys of Alabama, Glen David Andrews Band, Mia Borders, Samantha Fish

• Day 5 — Wednesday 20 January

  Chef Kevin Belton, J & The Causeways, Minx Burlesque, Sue Foley

• Day 6 — Thursday 21 January

  Co-Host Cole Williams, Joe Krown, Music Host Keith Spera, The Record Company

• Day 7 — Friday 22 January

  Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel, John “Papa” Gros, New Orleans Suspects, The River Benders

• Day 8 — Saturday 23 January

  Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, John Boutté, Pine Leaf Boys, The Rumble

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2026

  16–23 Jan 2026 (approx.)

  Regulars: Al "Lil Fats" Jackson, Anders Osborne, Andrew Duhon

• 2025

  16–23 Jan 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Anders Osborne, Andrew Duhon, Blind Boys of Alabama

• 2024

  16–23 Jan 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Andrew Duhon, Blind Boys of Alabama, Chef Kevin Belton

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, the closest airport to the site.
• The site itself is Cruise Ship (Eurodam), in Hollywood.
• Book a bed in Hollywood early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air13h 41m · €909