The annual French Quarter Festival is changing its planned 2020 dates.
The annual music festival, which presents free outdoor concerts in the French Quarter and along the riverfront, will take place April 16-19.
Festival organizers said in a news release Thursday that the 2020 event was originally set for April 2-5. But those dates would coincide with another major event set for New Orleans — the NCAA Women's Final Four tournament.
Organizers say the 2019 French Quarter Festival drew a crowd estimated at 825,000.