This year’s Voodoo Music Experience will now be offering a New Orleans-style VIP area like nothing you’ve ever experienced. Beyond the typical perks of a VIP lounge — a prime view of the main stages, hassle-free parking, and a full-service bar — VMX‘s VIP lounge is also going to serve you New Orleans on a plate.
The ninth festival since its 1999 inaugural event, the 2007 Voodoo Music Experience will feature over 110 acts, including newly reunited Rage Against the Machine and The Smashing Pumpkins as well as Wilco, Sinead O’Connor, MIA, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. And at this year’s VIP area, you’ll be able to have your cake and eat it too.
The VIP area has been officially dubbed the LOA Lounge by the festival, and the theme is based on the seven primary spirit forces in the Voodoo religion known as “Loa.” Each loa has its own attribute, such as the Loa of love or the Loa of beauty. Guests of VMX‘s LOA Lounge will all be able to consider themselves the Loa of yummy after indulging in their offerings.
Those present at the LOA Lounge will be treated to authentic New Orleans cuisine, all prepared on site by chefs from Dickie Brennan‘s three critically acclaimed New Orleans restaurants. Mouth-watering dishes like Cochon de Lait — suckling pigs slow-roasted over an open flame, topped with blueberry barbeque sauce, and served over honeyed cornbread — that have never before been available to VMX attendees will be “offered” to LOA Lounge “spirits.”
What could be better than being in New Orleans and seeing Spoon (shown above) at Louisiana’s historic City Park? Answer: having the best view of Spoon in the park while eating a plate of the incomparable original White Chocolate Bread Pudding with white chocolate ganache generously ladled over the top.
A limited number of LOA Lounge tickets went on sale last Friday, July 20, and are now priced at $450. As the festival approaches, the price will increase until all tickets are sold.