![]() ![]() LP cover, "Junco Partner" by James Booker: James Booker also played at the Maple Leaf Bar weekly, in the bar's early years. This tradition launched the bar's successful formula of having a feature local act play the same night every week.Ĭourtesy of Louisiana State Museum. 2007.034.001.Īndrew Hall's Society Jazz Band, circa 1970s: Andrew Hall's Society Jazz Band continued to play at the Maple Leaf Bar every Saturday night for the next seven years. 2007.034.003.īass drum: Courtesy of Louisiana State Museum. Andrew Hall's Society Jazz Band: Andrew Hall's Society Jazz Band played the opening night of the Maple Leaf Bar, February 24, 1974.Ĭourtesy of Louisiana State Museum. 1978.118 (F) 248.įlyer, The Maple Leaf: The founders, Bill Odoms and Tom Bethel, wanted to open a quiet, intellectual place where patrons could occasionally hear jazz.ġ986 flyer depicts directions to the Maple Leaf Bar, illustrations, and descriptions of the bar.Ĭourtesy of Louisiana State Museum, Music Collection Vertical Files. Originally published in 1899, this Melrose Music Corporation printing dates to 1939,Ĭourtesy of Louisiana State Museum. "The Maple Leaf Rag" : When the Maple Leaf Bar opened its doors on February 24, 1974, it was originally called The Maple Leaf Rag Time Bar and Chess Club, named after Scott Joplin's ragtime song. However, the ideas of a quiet place and occasional jazz did not last, as the bar soon featured music every night of the week.Ĭourtesy of Louisiana State Museum. View File Record Images Original sign, circa mid- to late 1970s: Early on, the Maple Leaf started a poetry reading series every Sunday to fulfill the bar's intellectual mission. As with the Nightlife, the content of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.Hank Staples on the opening of the Maple Leaf BarHank Staples, co-owner of the Maple Leaf Bar, talks about the rapid evolution of live music at the Maple Leaf. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The original content was at Maple Leaf Bar. Template:Music-venue-stub This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. Swampish Thoughts - a blogger's account of the first live concert in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, at the Maple Leaf Bar.The gig was eventually shut down by police and National Guard as the city was still under a curfew. ![]() (Some other local musicians who were playing in the aftermath of the storm dispute the claim that it was the city's first post-Katrina public performance, but it was the first to generate such sizable crowds and media attention.) The band's equipment was powered by a diesel generator because electricity had not yet been restored to most of the city. And on September 30, 2005, Walter "Wolfman" Washington played the Maple Leaf's first post-Katrina show in New Orleans. ![]() Owner Hank Staples stayed in New Orleans to guard the bar and his other properties, while vowing in interviews with national media outlets to host the first concert in New Orleans after the storm. The Maple Leaf was closed for several weeks in the aftermath of the storm ( see: Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans). Some came from having spent the day boarding up their homes and packing up their cars, and evacuated from the city after the party. While attendance was smaller than usual, a crowd insisted on partying New Orleans style one last time. The Maple Leaf hosted the Krewe of OAK "Midsummer Mardi Gras" parade and party as schedualed on the night of Saturday, the 27th of August, 2005, although Hurricane Katrina was barrelling down on the city. The Leaf has also been an important incubator for the city's many up-and-coming bands formed from the ranks of local musicians and music students at Tulane University, Loyola University and the University of New Orleans. Bruce Springsteen once dropped in unannounced to jam with The Iguanas after one of his New Orleans concerts Jon Cleary's band was once joined by his frequent employer, Bonnie Raitt. Frequent performers at the Maple Leaf have included local legends James Booker, the Rebirth Brass Band, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, and Henry Butler. Over the years the bar has hosted many of the city's greatest musicians, as well as national touring acts. Styles represented on stage include blues, funk, R&B, rock, zydeco, jazz, jam bands, and any combination thereof. It is one of the oldest and most beloved of New Orleans' music clubs, with live bands often performing seven nights a week. The Maple Leaf is on Oak Street in the Carrollton neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans. ![]() The Maple Leaf Bar is a music performance venue in New Orleans, Louisiana. ![]()
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