Praise hallelujah and join the jubilee when the Landing Festival takes flight along a rechristened South Shore Harbor, long languishing in the wake of Katrina but now bringing back among the city’s cultural attractions a top-notch live music and family-friendly entertainment set amidst Lake Pontchartrain’s stunning sunsets and soothing sea breezes.

Located near Lakefront Airport at the pre-Katrina Bally’s Casino space, the property, no longer held by the poststorm scuttled Orleans Levee Board, was revived after being placed on the private market. Purchased by a group including Tipitina’s owner Roland von Kurnatowski, who told to the Times-Picayune in January, “This is a community-based resource and asset that is underutilized and that’s a shame.”

While still a visionin-process, this lakefront festival grounds/park is anchored by a 5,000-seat outdoor amphitheater, opening with a big bang in the Landing Festival, a two-day affair (potentially three, if you’re a baller and/or on a bender) headlined both nights by co-presenter Galactic.

OffBeat’s cover boys host national names and local favorites largely in their same rock/jam/experimental spectrum in a line-up that includes Cake, Eagles of Death Metal, the blistering white-boy R&B of rising Birmingham, Alabama rock stars St. Paul and the Broken Bones, N.M.O. (Anders Osborne with Luther and Cody Dickinson of North Mississippi All-Stars), stellar Southern songstress Maggie Koerner, Soul Rebels, and Quickie Mart on Saturday, while Sunday holds psychedelic goddess Grace Potter (pictured), Dr. Dog, Trampled by Turtles, Sweet Crude and more.

The Landing Festival also offers food trucks, beer garden, marching bands and fireworks.

Noon on Sat.-Sun., Sept. 26-27, South Shore Harbor, 6701 Stars and Stripes Blvd. Tickets: 1-day $55/VIP $125, 2-day $100/VIP $200, 3-day $110/VIP $225 (includes Galactic plus Soul Rebels show Friday night at Tipitina’s Uptown).