Re: Fwd: [Harp-L] Memphis and New Orleans jams

[Howard Chandler <h_chandler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is all good advice.  There's a lot of stuff going on right now with 
all kind of street festivals etc. coming up in the next couple of months 
including the French Quarter Festival and of course the mother of all 
festivals the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Another great place to check out what's going on is to check out our 
great community radio station http://www.wwoz.org/

You'll find they have pretty good club and special event listings and 
you can stream the station and hear many of the fine musical acts that 
are out there right now as well as many New Orleans greats who've passed 
on.  We recently lost two more great ones, Snooks Eaglin and Eddie Bo.

As Dave mentioned, I usually try and stay away from Bourbon Street but 
there are some folks worth seeing down there such as Bryan Lee, Luther 
Kent, and Guitar Slim Jr.  Frenchman Street is a cool hang with lots of 
great music at places like Snug Harbor, DBA, Cafe Negril and many 
others.  There are a great happening places in other parts of town as 
well including the Bywater (upper 9th ward - St Claude) area, Uptown 
(Tipitinas, Mapleleaf, Carrolton Station, Le Bon Temps Roule)  Mid City 
(Chickie WahWah, Banks Street Bar), and many many others.

As far as the open jam scene, I'm not too up on that.

Have fun and take care.

Howard

Dave Dix wrote:
> Dave man...
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> when I was last in New Orleans, in 2004 (pre-Katrina) I went to a cracking blues jam, on a Sunday night, at a bar called Checkpoint Charlie's. At 501 Esplanade Ave, it says here (on the interweb). It was at the far (eastern) end of the French Quarter where it borders with a very elegant area called Faubourg Marigny. The bar was noted for its inhouse launderette (or laundromat, as they insist on calling it). 
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> And adjoining/joining Esplanade is Frenchmen Street, which has a much more appealing and authentic row of groovy music bars, patronised by locals, than does Bourbon Street, which is very themed up and usually full of drunk out-of-town conventioneers out in gangs.   
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> Best place to find out about what's on in N.O. is via the free listings mag, Offbeat, which can be found here
> http://www.offbeat.com/     
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> Also, don't miss:
> 1. oysters at Felix's (even though it's on Bourbon St)
> 2. cajun dancing at Mulatte's
> 3. coffee and beignets (doughnuts) at Cafe du Monde on Jackson Sq.
> 4. Jackson Sq.
> 5. Crawfish etouffe - or just about anything - at K Pauls Louisiana Kitchen
> 6. Breakfast at Mothers on Poydras St. It's where the Nevilles go apparently although they must've given it a miss the day i went....
> 7. a gig at the Maple Leaf. never managed to get there meself but that George Porter Jr out of the Meters seems to play there a lot. 
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> can't help re Memphis, although i've read that Beale St has suffered a similar fate to Bourbon St.
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> --- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dave Shannon <daveshannon@...> wrote:
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> A vocalist friend of mine is visiting the US from the UK and looking to visit a jam or two in Memphis and New Orleans. Can anyone recommend some friendly sessions in those fine cities?
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> Many thanks!
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> Dave Shannon
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