Mr. Jaq and I were there recently and made a sort of music pilgrimage to a laundromat near Louis Armstrong park. Apparently used to be a recording studio. There was live music in a park off Canal on Wednesday evenings (toward the river) - continues through the summer. We enjoyed the jazz brunch at the Palace Cafe (Saturdays and Sundays), but heard really good things about the same thing at the Court of the Two Sisters. What I loved best was when I'd get bitters and soda to drink (often, it is my favorite thing), servers would ask after what kind of bitters. I had some amazing plum bitters and lots of Peychaud's - such a nice change from the default angostura.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
I am going to New Orleans! First time back to Jazzfest since 2008. Hope it isn't ridiculously overcrowded. I have an awesome AirB&B house 6 blocks from the fairgrounds.
― pee-tape pay per view special (Dan Peterson), Monday, 4 March 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
Went for a weekend a couple weeks ago - my wife and I had both been but never together. Amazingly flew out a few hours after the airport closures ended the government shutdown and flew back into Detroit right as the polar vortex blizzard was hitting. Ate a bunch of good food, slept in a pitch black room with no dog or kid waking us up, ate edibles and road the streetcar / walked 9 miles one day around the garden district and it was amazing.
― joygoat, Monday, 4 March 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
https://gonola.com/food-drink-in-new-orleans/five-multigenerational-black-owned-businesses-to-visit-in-new-orleans
Willie Mae’sDookie ChaseLil Dizzy’s CafeNeyow’s Creole CafeMe. Okra
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/travel/big-freedia-five-places-to-eat-and-visit-in-new-orleans.html
Rapper Big Freedia’s 5
1. Morrow’s restaurant 2. Neyow’s Creole Cafe3. Republic NOLA on bouncebeat night 4. Cafe du Monde5. Manchu Food Store for its fried chicken
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
X—post — damn autocorrect...that’s Mr. Okra
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
Had a couple fancy meals in New Orleans that I'd highly recommend if you are looking for something like that:
Tea service at Sucre Brunch at Brennan's
I'd go back to either of these in a heartbeat.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
Avery's has the best seafood gumbo I've had in a restaurant but they were just featured on a guy fieri episode so go during off hours.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
So the New Orleans Jazzfest booked The Rolling Stones as a big 50th Anniversary coup, charged jacked up prices for tickets, sold out immediately (Jazzfest has never been able to sell out before) and now Mick has a medical issue and the Stones have cancelled their tour. What a cluster, I bet the JF office is an insane and horrible place to be this morning. (I booked first weekend, in part to avoid all this hoopla.)
https://www.nola.com/jazzfest/2019/03/rolling-stones-cancelled-for-jazz-fest.html
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Monday, 1 April 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
Rumour is Fleetwood Mac will be filling.
The grey hairs that clog the the field with their portable chairs should be happy.
JazzFest never appealed to me. I can understand others paying premium prices for classic/legacy mainstream musicians, but the times I've been I've circulated between the Congo Sq (R&B/urban) and Gentilly (indie) stages, almost impossible due to the press of people. Of the hundreds of artists this year, I've a lackluster interest in Kamasi Washington, and that's it. The fest needs to rely less on boomer artists to stay relevant going forward. Voodoo and Buku are more my thing.
― Kardashev scale sex tape (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
I'm a grey hair (no chair) but I won't be seeing any of the mainstage acts (unless you count the tribute to Fats Domino with Irma Thomas, Bonnie Raitt etc.)
As a gigging blues musician I'm interested in Taj Mahal and locals like Alvin Youngblood Hart, and there's some interesting world music making its way over from Festival International in Lafayette. As long as there is trad jazz, brass bands, and Mardi Gras Indians, I'm happy. (Both of the fests you linked are a generation or two apart from my tastes.)
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 4 April 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
I agree with Dan re going to Jazzfest to see brass bands, old-school New Orleans r’n’b, etc. I like the gospel and Congo Square global music too
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 April 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
I would even argue that it's better to go to French Quarter fest (or the now-annual Original Brass Fest in Congo Square) to see this stuff, rather then messing with Jazzfest at all.
Does TBC still busk outside of the festival, or are they too old/professional for that now?
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
I am more curious about Essence Fest there than Voodoo.
I also loved the one Ponderosa Stomp I attended there, and was sad to see on FB that they’re taking a hiatus ( although doing a 1 night thing with a few acts in Brooklyn and some small things in New Orleans too)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
I don't know why I have yet to give French Quarter Fest a try. I guess I just fell in love with Jazzfest in 1988 and keep clinging to that, although I haven't attended in a decade. It does seem like the rapidly escalating price of Fest is to subsidize to booking of Katy Perry and Bruce Springsteen, and I don't go see them anyway.
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
FQF is great! Way more chill and focused on the local musicians that I actually want to see.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
lol, now Fleetwood Mac canceled because of illness
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 8 April 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
food is cheaper at FQF too, used to be maximum $4 for any dish (idk if that's changed).
i once saw a serene dr john being driven around FQF in a golf cart. like a buddha. i have since aspired to a similar beatitude
― adam, Monday, 8 April 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
fqf is def a good time. I’ve always liked going down to NOLA *during* Jazzfest, even if I don’t make it to the actual festival (which, if memory serves I’ve probably only gone to maybe three times). weather’s usually pretty good and there’s tons of stuff/ music going on in all the local haunts
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 8 April 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
What are the best liquor stores in N.O., with an emphasis on amari and other liqueurs? I've been recommended Keife & Company and Martin Wine. I'm going down for a couple of days at the end of this month.
― WmC, Saturday, 11 May 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link
Don't know about amari but Keife was the only place I could find Becherovka 18 months ago
― Fetchboy, Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
Thanks! The N.O. event that I was going for has been rescheduled, so I may or may not make the trip this month.
― WmC, Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/article_e0e12f22-9520-11e9-8dd4-2b995adb9059.html
Geno’s Po-Boys in that Pink building closing down after 50 years. Will be sold and replaced with condos. Business post-Katrina hasn’t been the same. Article provides more details
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 June 2019 02:51 (five years ago) link
Gene’s I mean
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 June 2019 02:54 (five years ago) link
https://64parishes.org/new-orleans-pop-festival
50 years ago, 2 weeks after Woodstock
A young Deacon John played as well as many who had also been at Woodstock
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
Seven years is too long! Flying out on Sunday for a week and staying on Frenchmen Street. Hope to finally get to the Maple Leaf for Rebirth on Tuesday. Also plan on seeing Kermit at his Mother-in-Law Lounge and Corey Henry at Vaughan's Thursday night. Any hot new bands in the R&B or jazz vein that I should be checking out?
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 5 September 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
Recommendations on any new clubs or reasonably priced restaurants would also be welcome.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 5 September 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Huh, I thought I saw on social media that Rebirth wasn't doing Tuesdays anymore and that TBC had taken it over, but maybe that was just temporary (Rebirth is listed on their website).
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
was about to highly recommend sneaky pickle on st. claude for excellent and fairly cheap eats, but just looked and they're temporarily closed due to a fire! next time, maybe.
― andrew m., Thursday, 5 September 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.wwoz.org/programs/inthestreet
Second line parade link ( usually on Sundays)
An Offbeat mag editorial was touting St Claude Street
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Big 6 Brass Band
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
Avery's on Tulane has the best restaurant gumbo I've had outside of Prejean's in Lafayette (and pretty damn good poboys, too).
― Fetchboy, Friday, 6 September 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
avery's used to be in my lunch rotation, great french fries too
― adam, Friday, 6 September 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
I thought I saw on social media that Rebirth wasn't doing TuesdaysDon't know about that, but I just learned they're not playing the Tuesday I'll be there. They're on tour elsewhere, apparently.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 6 September 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
Same exact shit is popular there now as when I lived there 20 years ago. What a shithole. Fun to visit for a few days though.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 6 September 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
We had an epic time. One of the highlights was seeing Michael Doucet play to a small dinner crowd at Three Muses on Frenchmen. (We had seen him perform with Beausoleil to thousands at a music fest in Rhode Island just the week.) Bought him a drink and had a nice chat with him. Real genuine, friendly guy. He recommended some good restaurant/cocktail spots, including Cane & Table on Decatur, which was indeed special.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 20 September 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Please stop jumping under parade floats. 2 in 4 nights, after some 38 years without fatalities among Mardi Gras spectators.
― tetragrammaton in vain (Sanpaku), Sunday, 23 February 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link
Uh. More like don’t reach for beads and trip and fall. Sad accidents
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 February 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
endymion is the absolute worst, the whole vibe of the krewe and the metairie-convenient mid-city route bring really bring out the lsu polo straining over a sunburnt gut brigade
― adam, Monday, 24 February 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
I am going to New Orleans this weekend, and also the weekend after that.
This weekend is for a wedding, and I'm a little concerned because it's with a group of Milwaukee people and I don't drink very much these days. Adam, any recommendations for Marigny/Bywater bars (or anywhere between there and the Garden district)? I think they would like Bud Rips, Vaughan's, idk. I'm just used to going wherever the good brass bands are playing.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 February 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
i've been gone for 6 years (!!) so my knowledge is well out of date but:
1. i worked at vaughan's for a long time so i am biased but any non-thursday evening there is a good chance to view firsthand the effects of long-term alcohol abuse, really gets deep into the 1970s era white boho new orleans soul
2. bud rips is like fancy now i heard? in my day it was the last explicitly racist bar in the neighborhood. beautiful tin ceiling tho.
3. markeys is my old home base but the owner goes on these periodic no-new-friends type rampages and deliberately makes it an unpleasant place to be. idk where it's at right now.
4. my buddy has a couple places in the french quarter if you want fancy pants cocktails. manolito and "jewel of the south"
5. when i lived on chartres and franklin, i think you were there last time we hung out, i liked all the gay bars in that area. big daddy's and friendly bar in particular.
― adam, Monday, 24 February 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
I wandered into Bud Rips last year and had a good experience, then I googled it yesterday and the first auto-complete was "bud rips racist". Oh no! Then I found an article from 2017 saying it was now under new non-racist management, whew! Thanks.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 February 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
The Mother-in-Law Lounge was originally opened in 1994 by Ernie K-Doe, the rhythm and blues singer, and was named for a song he recorded that topped the charts in 1961.
Mr. Ruffins didn’t anticipate the ownership transformation on St. Bernard Avenue. “We wish that black owners were still there,” he said. But he added, “There’s no time to be negative about it, just because we didn’t do what we were supposed to do to keep it alive.”
Just off St. Bernard Avenue, a number of black-owned places, like Bullet’s Sports Bar and Bertha’s Place Bar and Restaurant, continue to thrive. Elsewhere across the city, there are other strongholds.
From a N.Y. Times article
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/new-orleans-black-bars-second-lines.html?referringSource=articleShare
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
Victor Dawkins’s routine has varied little in 40-plus years of owning The Other Place, a brick two-story that is one of the last black-owned bars on St. Bernard Avenue.
But outside, much has changed. Four of the six nearby bars — all of which were once owned and operated by black people and served black customers — now have white owners and cater to a primarily white crowd.
Article mentions other places including Sportsman’s Corner
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
that bums me out, st bernard between rampart and claiborne on a weekend night was an amazing vibe
― adam, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
Yeah, good piece though. I'll be at most of these since they're stops during the second line this Sunday. :)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
Going to be in New Orleans in early November, what should I do? Any ILXors about?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
Randomly decided to spend a few days there with the family on Christmas break. Now I sort of don’t know why or what to do there, so help me come up with ideas I guess?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 12 December 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
I enjoyed the art museum, the Avenue Pub, and walking through Mid City.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 12 December 2022 05:02 (one year ago) link