Come Halloween and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA gets ready to host a music festival with a quirky name, Voodoo Music + Arts Experience or Voodoo. Voodoo Experience is held on the three days of the Halloween weekend, which this year is from October 31 - November 2.

Voodoo has been held in New Orleans City Park on the Festival Grounds every year since the Halloween of 1999. In last 15 years since its inception, the festival has attracted over a million music lovers from all across the world who have been regaled by performances by over 2000 artists. The event has also been twice nominated for Pollstar’s Music Festival of the Year.

Staying true to New Orleans’s image of being the cultural potbelly of music, Voodoo has hosted artists from different genres of music over the past 15 years including Metallica, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Duran Duran Ozzy Osbourne, Deadmau5, 311 and 50 Cent. Voodoo has successfully blended the top-tier artists with the talented Louisiana musicians including The Original Meters, Rebirth Brass Band among many others.

Earlier started as a one day affair on Halloween in 1999, Voodoo turned in to a two-day event the very next year and from 2007 it became a three-day Halloween weekend fest. Back in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina washed away the place, the founder of the event Stephen Rehage faced a choice to take the festival to Memphis. He, however, after consulting with the New Orleans community members, held the festival in New Orleans for a day as a tribute to the relief workers. It was also seen as that one day post hurricane when people walked in the festival forgetting that their lives had been displaced and looked happy.

In 2012, Voodoo also started the accommodation option for the music lovers in the form of tents known as Camp Voodoo. The tents offer the chance to sleep under the stars, with all the basic amenities taken care of. The festival has day passes to the event, a combo 3-day pass, a pass with Camp Voodoo, a VIP lounge pass and a pass to experience backstage scenes from an artist’s perspective. Voodoo 2014 has an interesting line-up of artists including Foo Fighters, Outkast, Skrillex, Arctic Monkeys, Zedd, Pretty Lights, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Slayer among many more.

Going by the numbers and facts and as an answer to ‘trick or treat’, spending Halloween at Voodoo promises a whole lot of ‘treats’!