Taylor Swift's first New Orleans area gig got rained out. She still signed 2,000 autographs.
Swift’s rained-out 2008 show attracted somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 fans, Buisson estimated. That’s a big crowd by Family Gras standards, but not its biggest. Other years, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons and Marie Osmond drew crowds large enough to shut down several lanes of Veterans Memorial Boulevard on both sides of the stage.