(Staff photo by Scott Threlkeld, The Times-Picayune) In its early years, the French Quarter Festival, which is produced by the nonprofit French Quarter Festivals Inc., focused on traditional jazz.

(KRON) — If you are a jazz lover, get out your dancing shoes. The Annual Latin Jazz Festival is coming back to downtown Hayward on Saturday. This free festival will have three stages of smooth jazz.

Three men, a shared problem, a half-circle of red plastic chairs; as the action begins, Stephen Cristopher and Graeme Smith’s new play Dancing Shoes looks like the very archetype of a Play ...