NOLADIY.ORG - New Orleans Area Venues

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12 Bar
608 Fulton Street | 70130 | 504 212 6476 | dave@12barnola.com | http://www.12barnola.com/
Music venue.

531 Liberty Cafe
531 Liberty Street | 70360 | All Ages | 985 223 2233 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/531-Liberty/175883582458285?sk=info
Cafe in Houma that hosts all ages shows.

A Shotgun Near You
2827 Chippewa Street | 70115 | 917 232 6090 | ashotgunnearyou@gmail.com | http://facebook.com/ashotgunnearyou
DIY venue in the Irish Channel hosting regular music and comedy shows.

Airline Lion's Home
3110 Division St | 70002 | All Ages
All ages. Off Vets by Lowes.

Alamo Underground
5037 Freret Street | 0 | All Ages | casey.mintzer@gmail.com | http://www.thealamounderground.com
Space open for plays, art shows, concerts, meetings, rehearsals, etc.

Allways Lounge and Marigny Theatre
2240 Saint Claude Ave | 70117 | 504 947 0505 | allwayslounge@gmail.com | http://www.theallwayslounge.com
Lounge & theatre, presenting all kinds of performance and music.

The A.R.K./Plan B/Hasbin Wilby's
511 Marigny | 70117 | All Ages
A community arts space in the Marigny district downtown. The bike project is open Monday 4pm-8pm, Tuesday 4pm-8pm (women and trans only), Thursday 2pm-6pm, and Saturday 4pm-8pm. Hasbin Wilby's (Recycle for the Arts) is open Monday, Thursday, Saturday 1pm-7pm.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center
1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd | 70113 | All Ages | 504 569 9070 | ashecac@gmail.com | http://www.ashecac.org
Promotes African, Caribbean, and African-American art and artists, including visual and performance art. Also a community gathering place and a conference center.

Babylon
2917 Harvard Avenue | 70006
Bar in Metairie.

Backyard Ballroom
3519 St. Claude Avenue | 70117 | All Ages | 504 473 6819 | otter@backyardballroom.com
Financial arrangements vary but are always reasonable. For theatrical/music/performance, strong preference is given to new, locally created work. For community events, the Backyard Ballroom will consider just about anything, including classes, meetings, and benefits. Catering is available. Lastly, the space is available for private rental: birthdays, weddings, and the like.

Badabing's
3515 Hessmer | 70002 | 504 454 1120
18+ bar.

Balcony Music Club
1331 Decatur St | 70116 | 504 599 7770 | talebloo@bellsouth.net | http://www.myspace.com/balconymusicclub
21+ bar on Esplanade and Decatur. Formerly The Matador.

Banks Street Bar
4401 Banks St | 70119 | 504 486 0258 | http://www.myspace.com/banksstreetbar
Bar. All free shows; bands get 25% of alcohol sales.

The Bar
3224 Edenborn | 70002 | http://www.myspace.com/thebarrocks
Bar in Fat City.

Barrister's Art Gallery
2331 St. Claude Ave. (at Spain) | 70117 | All Ages
Art gallery.

Bayou Park Bar
542 S. Jefferson Davis Parkway | 70119 | bayoupark@yahoo.com | http://www.myspace.com/bayouparkbar
Bar

The Blue Nile
534 Frenchmen St. | 70116 | 504.948.BLUE

C-Note Lounge
1753 St. Charles Ave. | 70130
Bar.

Caddy Whomp Haus
3027 Banks Street | 70119 | All Ages
House space.

Cafe Brasil
2100 Chartres St. | 70116 | All Ages
Bar on Frenchman.

Cafe Prytania
3445 Prytania Street | 70115 | 504 891 5773 | info@prytaniabar.com | http://www.prytaniabar.com/
18+ bar. The talent buyers are Cooper Garff and Max Bonanno.

Carrollton Station
8140 Willow St. | 70118 | 504 865 9190 | info@carrolltonstation.com | http://www.carrolltonstation.com/
Uotown bar.

The Central
8343 Lafitte Court | 70043 | All Ages | thecentralbooking@gmail.com | http://www.myspace.com/centralmusichall
All ages space in Chalmette.

Checkpoint Charlie's
501 Esplanade Ave. | 70116 | 504.947.0979 | http://www.myspace.com/checkpoints
Bar; 21+. They have free shows where the bands get paid a percentage of the food and alcohol sales made during their set.

Chickie Wah Wah
2828 Canal St | 0 | 504 304 4717 | info@chickiewahwah.com | http://chickiewahwah.com
18+ bar.

The Circle Bar
1032 Saint Charles Avenue (on Lee Circle) | 70130 | 504 588 2616 | jason@liveneworleans.com | http://myspace.com/thecirclebar
21+ bar.

The Country Club
634 Louisa St. | 70117 | 504.945.0742 | http://www.countryclubneworleans.com/
Bar/poolhouse/art gallerey.

The Cypress
3612 Hessmer Ave | 70002 | All Ages | bookingthecypress@gmail.com | http://www.thecypressvenue.com/
Formerly Cypress Hall and The High Ground. All ages space in the Metairie suburbs.

DBA
618 Frenchman St. | 70116 | 504.942.3731 | info@drinkgoodstuff.com | http://drinkgoodstuff.com
"It is a bar, but I don't ever see a doorman carding there."

Der Rathskeller (Tulane Campus)
McAlister Dr. | 70118 | All Ages | miverson@tulane.edu | http://wtul.fm
Aka "The Rat." The summertime venue for shows on Tulane's campus in the LBC (the Lavin Bernick Center) on McAlister Drive, across from Tulane's business school, between Freret and Willow. It is an industrial looking big glass windowed building on the left hand side of the street (McAlister is one way, so it's left based on the way you can drive down the street). The Rat is on the "gardenlevel" (in the basement).

Dragon's Den
435 Esplanade Ave | 70116 | All Ages | dragonsdenbooking@gmail.com | http://myspace.com/dragonsdennola
Space above what was formerly Cafe Siam and is now the new downtown Zotz.

Ducbo
2728 N. Derbigny / 1616 St. Ferdinand | 70117 | All Ages
Warehouse in the Marigny/9th Ward. Folks should enter through the back gate on St. Ferdinand (the street N. Derbigny deadends at--take a right, and it's right there on your right on the corner).

Ernie K-Doe's Mother-in-Law Lounge
1500 N. Claiborne Ave. | 70116
Bar.

The Frat House
8200 Willow St | 70118 | http://thefrathouseneworleans.com/
New bar at the old Jimmy's location.

The Front
4100 St. Claude Avenue | 70117 | All Ages | nolafront@gmail.com | http://www.nolafront.org/
Kyle and Jenny from Hot Iron Press have opened a new art gallery on St. Claude with a collective of folks. The gallery is open Thursday - Sunday 12pm - 5pm.

Gold Mine Saloon
701 Dauphine St. | 70116 | goldminesaloon@aol.com | http://www.goldminesaloon.net/
Bar. Corner of Dauphine and St. Peter.

The Green Space (Green Project)
2831 Marais | 70117 | All Ages | 504 578 0888 | recycledartsbooking@gmail.com | http://www.noladiy.org/gp.html
All ages art space located above the Green Project recycling space on Marais and Press in the bywater. To get inside, park in the lot off Press between the space and the tracks. The entrance is in the back and up the stairs.

Gris Gris Lab
2245 Brainard Street and Jackson Avenue | 70113 | All Ages | 504 872 0577 | http://www.grisgrislab.com/
Community healing space.

Hammerhead's
1300 N Causeway Blvd | 70001 | 504.834.6474
Metairie bar.

Handsome Willy's
218 S. Robertson St. | 70112 | 504 525 0377 | info@handsomewillys.com | http://handsomewillys.com
Bar that occasionally does all ages backyard shows. You can also try Rita (bombshelly84@hotmail.com) for booking.

Hey Cafe
4332 Magazine Street | 70115 | All Ages | communityrecords@gmail.com | http://www.heycafe.biz/
Formerly Magazine Perks. Small coffeehouse for quiet, quiet, quiet late night goings on.

Hi-Ho Lounge
2239 Saint Claude Ave. | 70117 | 504 945 4446 | ethansleep@gmail.com | http://hiholounge.net/
Small bar off Elysian Fields.

The High Ground
3612 Hessmer Ave | 70002 | All Ages | incisionbooking@aol.com | http://www.thehighgroundvenue.com/
Formerly Cypress Hall. All ages space in the Metairie suburbs.

The Hookah
309 Decatur Street | 70130 | 504 943 1101 | hookah@hookah-cafe.com | http://www.hookah-club.com/
Formerly the Hookah Cafe.

The House of Blues
225 Decatur St. | 70130 | 504.529.2583

The Howlin Wolf
907 S. Peters | 70130 | 504.529.5844 | stu@thehowlinwolf.com | http://www.thehowlinwolf.com
18+ bar in the Warehouse district.

Iron Rail Book Collective
503 Barracks Street | 70116 | All Ages | 504 383 3284 | ironrailbookcollective@gmail.com | http://ironrail.org/
Collective-run, non-profit, anarchist book store, record store, and lending library. Too small for shows, but a possible space for organizational meetings or reading/speaking engagements.

Keystone's Lounge
3408 28th street | 70002 | http://myspace.com/keystoneslounge
local music venue doing all it can to help support the local new orleans music scene by booking genre after genre of local acts weekly.

Kim's 940
940 Elysian Fields | 70117 | 504.944.4888
18+ bar.

The Kingpin
1307 Lyons St. | 70115 | 504.891.2373
21+, bar.

Le Chat Noir
715 St. Charles Ave. | 70130 | 504 581 5812 | http://www.cabaretlechatnoir.com
Theatre and show space.

Les Bon Toups Roule
4801 Magazine St. | 70115 | 504 895 8117 | http://www.myspace.com/4801magazine
Bar/restaurant on Magazine St. uptown across from Rock Off RPM and Crescent City Tattoo Co.

Lyon's Club
2920 Arlington St. | 70121 | All Ages
All Ages. $700 to rent out.

Maison Musique
508 Frenchman Street | 70116 | http://508maisonmusique.com
Booking is done through the website.

The Maple Leaf
8316 Oak St. | 70118 | 504.866.9359
Uptown bar. 18+

Marigny Theatre
2240 St. Claude Avenue | 70117 | All Ages | dennis@nofringe.org
$200 to rent. Behind Cowpokes.

Marlene's Place
3715 Tchoupitoulas | 70115 | 504.897.3415 | marlenes3715@yahoo.com
Mid-sized club for rock, punk, etc. Capacity is 571. 21+

Melvin's
2112 Saint Claude Ave. | 70117
Bar in the Marigny/French Quarter.

Mimi's in the Marigny
Franklin & Royal | 70117
Bar.

Mudlark Theatre
1200 Port Street | 70117 | All Ages | pandora.gastelum@gmail.com | http://www.themudlarkconfectionary.com/
All ages venue in the Bywater for theatre, puppet mastery, and music.

New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
3624 Coliseum St. | 70115 | All Ages | 504 899 5818 | http://www.nopsya.org
Facilitated film screenings and discussions every Sunday.

NOLA Candle Factory (aka Heavy Metal Parking Lot)
4537 N. Robertson (at Japonica) | 70117 | All Ages | chandler@rocket-hire.com
Warehouse space of two names.

Nowe Miasto
223 Jane Pl. | 70119 | All Ages | 504 451 3693 | nowemiastonola@yahoo.com | http://nowemiastonola.wordpress.com/
All ages. Middle-city punk house. They only do one show a month with bands they're into. All Ages All The Time! If your parents are worried about dropping you off, call me and I'll talk to them. Near Canal and Broad Sts. in Mid-City - Park on Broad or Canal and walk in from Broad for safety and for easier parking. Questions comments or concerns please call!

One Eyed Jack's
615 Toulouse St | 70130 | 504 250 0081 | scott@aquariumdrunkard.com | http://www.oneeyedjacks.net/
Downtown club in the old Shim Sham location. Rock, punk, metal shows and theme nights. (504 569 8361)

Outer Banks
2401 Palmyra (at S. Tonti) | 70119 | 504.628.5976 | outerbanksbar@aol.com | http://www.myspace.com/outerbanksmidcity
Bar in Mid-City. 21+. Shows will start at 9PM and end around midnight.

Parse Gallery
134 Carondelet Street | 70130 | All Ages | parsegallery@gmail.com
Art gallery in the CBD.

Republic
828 South Peters Street | 70130 | 310 910 4538 | Nick@lrgnola.com | http://www.republicnola.com/
Indie rock, special events, and nightlife.

The Saint
961 St. Mary St. | 70130 | http://www.myspace.com/saintbarnola
Uptown bar on lower Magazine.

Saturn Bar
3067 St. Claude Ave. | 70117 | 504 949 7532 | http://www.myspace.com/saturnbar
Bar.

Siberia
2227 St. Claude Avenue | 70117 | siberianbooking@gmail.com
18+ bar/club.

Sound Cafe
2700 Chartres Street | 70117 | All Ages | 504 947 4477
Coffee shop in the bywater.

Southport Hall
200 Monticello Ave. | 70121 | 504.835.2903 | info@newsouthport.com | http://www.newsouthport.com
Music club.

The Spellcaster Lodge
Somewhere near the train tracks | 70117 | rhinestonerecords@hotmail.com | http://www.quintronandmisspussycat.com/tourdates.html
Mr. Quintron and Ms. Pussycat's above ground basement in the 9th ward.

St. Roch Taverne
1200 Saint Roch Ave | 70117 | 504 945 0194
Bar in the Marigny-Bywater two blocks from St. Claude Ave.

Stitches
3941 Houma Blvd. | 70006 | http://www.myspace.com/stitchesbar
Bar.

Studio 3
3610 Toulouse | 70119 | All Ages | openhousemusicnola@gmail.com
10,000 sq foot DIY venue.

Tarantula Arms
209 Decatur St. | 70130 | tarantulaarms@bellsouth.net | http://www.myspace.com/tarantulaarms
In the French Quarter next door to House of Blues.

Tipitina's
501 Napoleon Avenue | 70115 | 504.895.8477 | http://www.tipitinas.com
Uptown club. Concentrates mostly on the "New Orleans-style" music, but occasionally comes through with an good show.

The Treehouse
1614 Esplanade Avenue | 70116 | All Ages | http://www.1614esplanade.com
Part of the Art House.

Twist of Lime
2820 Lime Street | 70006
Bar in Metairie.

United Bakery
1325 St Bernard Avenue | 70116 | All Ages | 504 655 3326 | bum.jug@gmail.com
DIY punk space in the Bywater-Marigny. If you want to play a show there call: Sara Phoenix: 2155205853; Sierra: 5032503005; KBrutal: 7074909795; Jascha: 5046553326.

Vintage Uptown
4523 Magazine Street | 70115 | All Ages | booking@vintageuptown.com | http://www.vintagenola.org
Gallery / music hall.

Whirling Dervish
1135 Decatur St | 70116 | 504 218 4520
Bar on Decatur.

Whiskey Dix
1753 St. Charles Avenue | 70130 | 504 525 5253 | Whiskeybooking99@gmail.com | http://www.myspace.com/whiskeydixbooking
Live music 5 days a week. Who has played? One Man Machine, Felix, War Amps, many more.

Wolf Den
907 S. Peters | 70130 | 504.529.5844 | stu@thehowlinwolf.com | http://www.thehowlinwolf.com
Smaller, side bar at the Howlin Wolf.

X/O Studios
2833 Dauphine St. | 70117 | All Ages | 504 949 8134 | http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/2008/06/xo_studios.html
Corner of Press Street by the tracks. 13 rooms of Local Art. Hours Wen-Sat 10-5 and by appt.

Yellow Moon Bar
800 France at Dauphine | 70117 | 504 944 0441 | l0renm@gmail.com | http://www.yellowmoonbar.com
Bar.

Bailey House
831 Violet St. | 70802 | All Ages | rcpzine@gmail.com | http://www.myspace.com/rcpzine
House shows on Violet Street.

Baton Rouge Gallery
1442 City Park Ave | 70808 | All Ages | 225 383 1470 | http://www.batonrougegallery.org
Center for contemporary art.

Building Studios
239 E. Chimes | 70802 | All Ages | rcpzine@gmail.com
Warehouse space for web-streaming, live radio and DIY shows.

Carlotta Street
3270 Carlotta St. | 0 | All Ages | starsandlemonade@hotmail.com
Apartment/house in Baton Rouge. If you're mapquesting and you're having trouble, try 3270 Carlotta and that gets you close. You'll see whats going on from there.

The Caterie
3617 Perkins Rd | 70808 | All Ages | http://www.thecaterie.com
Club.

Dragonfly's
124 West Chimes (College Town) | 70802
Bar.

Fletcher's House
440 State St. | 70802 | All Ages | rcpzine@gmail.com | http://myspace.com/rcpzine
House.

Here Today Gone Tomorrow
10240 Burbank Drive | 70810 | All Ages | 225 769 2259 | http://htgthrift.com/
All ages thrift store space in Baton Rouge.

House of Screamo
416 E. State St. | 70802 | All Ages
BR house containing Q, Fats, and Robot.

Insomkneeacks
9810 Florida Blvd. | 70815 | All Ages | 225 935 2824 | http://www.myspace.com/pexcho66
Coffee house and art space.

Junkyard House
3299 Ivanhoe St. | 70802 | All Ages
Miguel WNTT's house in Baton Rouge.

North Gate Tavern
136 W. Chimes St. | 70802 | sam.terito@gmail.com | http://www.myspace.com/northgatetavern
Baton Rouge bar.

Red Star
222 Laurel St | 70801 | 225.346.8454 | http://www.redstarbar.com/

Rotolo's
1125 Bob Pettit Blvd | 70820 | 225.761.1999
Baton Rouge Bar. 18+

Simon's House
219 E. Chimes St. | 70802 | All Ages | rcpzine@gmail.com | http://myspace.com/rcpzine
House.

SoGo Live
150 Mayflower Street | 70802 | 225.387.0321

The Spanish Moon
1109 Highland Rd | 70802 | 225.955.5582 | moonbooking@hotmail.com | http://www.thespanishmoon.com
18+ bar.

The Sugar Shack
1470 Aster Street | 70802 | All Ages
Baton Rouge house.

The Varsity
3353 Highland Rd. | 70802 | 225.383.7018 | mark@varsitytheatre.com | http://www.varsitytheatre.com/
Music and movie club.

Artmosphere
902 Johnston St. | 70501 | All Ages | 337.233.3331
A coffee house/bar. There are shows here pretty often, no set style of music.

Bizbanno's
1540 Johnston St. | 0
Space in Lafayette.

Bourque Social Club
1012 Saint Mary Street | 70583 | http://www.myspace.com/bourquessocialclub
Just outside Lafayette.

Bucknuttys
101 Benoit-Falgout Dr. | 70501 | All Ages | 337 234 6121 | http://www.bucknuttys.com/
Skate Park.

Cafe Cottage
1013 E Saint Mary Blvd | 70503 | 337.235.4199

Changes
200 McKinley St. | 70501 | 337.269.0809
18+ bar on the strip.

Cite' des Arts
301 East 3rd St. | 70501 | All Ages | 337.291.1122

Club Sin
114 McKinley Street | 70501

The Feed & Seed
106 N. Grant St. | 70501 | All Ages | http://www.facebook.com/feedandSeed106?sk=info
All ages space in Lafayette.

Grant Street Dancehall
113 West Grant St. | 70501 | 337.237.8513 | booking@grantstreetdancehall.com | http://www.grantstreetdancehall.com
Music club.

Mojo Monkey's
116 Spring St. | 70501
18+ bar.

Renaissance Cafe
425 Jefferson St. | 70501 | 337.267.7404

Shakers
222 Jefferson Street | 70501
Sometimes it's called Shakers Martini Bar, and sometimes it's called Shakers Live.

Toys Music Center
1019 E Saint Mary Blvd | 70503 | All Ages | 337.232.7625
All ages club.

The Underground Sea
600 S.Lewis Street | 70560 | All Ages | http://www.myspace.com/newiberiaallages
All ages space in New Iberia. Exit Lewis Street off Hwy 90, we're 2.3 miles past Burger King.

Wildfires House
163 Jomela | 70508 | All Ages | wildfires666@yahoo.com
House space.

Evangeline's Cafe
2852 Carey St. | 70458 | All Ages

Last Call
230 Cousin St. | 70458 | 985.781.2969 | ringleader001@hotmail.com | http://profile.myspace.com/users/25255769
Bar.

Skater's Paradise
200 W Gause Blvd. | 70460 | All Ages | 985.643.0839
Skater's Paradise

Cottonport Coffee House
405 Natchitoches St. | 71291 | All Ages
This venue is in West Monroe, LA

Paraground
111 N. 2nd St | 71291 | All Ages
This venue is in St. Monroe.

The Dalzell House
246 Dalzell | 71104 | All Ages | nathantreme@gmail.com | http://dalzellhouse.blogspot.com/
We host all ages shows and let bands crash if they need a place to rest when passing through. We can't charge a cover for shows but we take up donations for touring bands and bands can sell merch and our typical crowd is very generous. We host a lot of last minute shows for bands on tour.

Distro Projects
| 0 | All Ages | distroprojects@gmail.com | https://sites.google.com/site/distroprojects/
It is a space in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana. We book experimental, avant-garde, sound art, noise, micro-crust, free-drone, footwork, hyper-drag, extreme-fi and nihil-waves.

Media Star Entertainment
1258 Dalzell Street | 71103 | All Ages | booking@mediastarentertainment.com | http://www.mediastarentertainment.com
"All ages live music venue and art community geared towards aiding the growth of Shreveport through music and art."

Minicine
846 Texas Avenue | 71101 | All Ages | minicine@swampland.org | http://www.swampland.org/
"Turn Your Living Room into a Camera Obscura Today! D.I.Y. Minicine? Swampland is a venue for independent and experimental film."

Soundstage
516 Texas St. | 71101
http://www.516soundstage.com | booking_516soundstage@hotmail.com

The Warehouse
630 Commerce Street | 71101
Show space in Shreveport.

The Fire House
| 0
Hwy. 190 near the Goodwill in Covington

Fun Land
1225 W. Causeway Approach in Mandeville | 0 | All Ages
Formerly known as Putt Putt Games

The Green Room (Covington)
521 E Boston St. | 70433
In Covington on the North Shore.

Howlin Wolf Northshore
1623 Montgomery Street | 70448 | 985 626 1616 | howlinwolfevents@gmail.com | http://www.thehowlinwolf.com
Imperialist settlement in Mandeville.

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