Snoop Dogg returns to Voodoo sporting a Colston jersey to an adoring crowd, opening for Blink-182. (Jean-Paul Villere for UptownMessenger.com)

The Treme Brass Band play a traditional set early afternoon at Preservation Hall. (Jean-Paul Villere for UptownMessenger.com)

At The Bingo! Parlour, local favorites The Happy Talk Band perform a mellow set, Alex McMurray sporting wolfish headgear. (Jean-Paul Villere for UptownMessenger.com)

The concourse takes on an air of small town delights with facepainting and a busy midway of rides at dusk. (Jean-Paul Villere for UptownMessenger.com)

Chris Thomas King plays to fans at Preservation Hall, including covering "Man of Constant Sorrow" popularized in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? in which he played Tommy Johnson, a reference to Robert Johnson. (Jean-Paul Villere for UptownMessenger.com)

Boots Electric (and Eagles of Death Metal) frontman Jesse Helms mugs to crowd before his set. (Jean-Paul Villere for UptownMessenger.com)

The Illumasti Trio Plus 1 perform an intimate and inventive material at Preservation Hall. Mike Dillon, James Singleton, and Skerik sans Brian Coogan played a briefly earlier in the day at the WTUL stage, noting humorously their evening set would be a "battle royale opposite Snoop." (Jean-Paul Villere for UptownMessenger.com)

Social Distortion close out their set at dusk covering Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." (Jean-Paul Villere for UptownMessenger.com)

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