Once you’ve spent Halloween weekend in New Orleans, every other Halloween destination reads as the consolation prize. The Voodoo Music + Arts Experience is the festival that happens inside that decision — three days in City Park, October 25–27, 2026, with Guns N’ Roses, Post Malone, and Beck as headliners and Spanish moss and live oaks as the backdrop. Voodoo is what happens when New Orleans hosts a music festival. The setting separates it from every other outdoor event: City Park's old-growth oak trees drape Spanish moss over the crowd, the air carries the city's legendary culinary ambiance, and by Halloween weekend the temperature finally breaks into something resembling autumn. …