page_title: Maple Leaf Bar
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Maple Leaf Bar / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Rebirth Brass Band performing at the Maple Leaf in New Orleans on 12-15-2015. (Far left to right - Stafford Agee, Glen Andrews, Glenn Hall, Chadrick Honore)
context_page_description: The Maple Leaf Bar is a music performance venue in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is also a bar and hosts other events.
context_section_description: The Maple Leaf is on Oak Street in the Carrollton neighborhood. Opened on Feb 24, 1974, it is one of the longest continuing operations of New Orleans' music clubs with live performances seven nights a week.
  On the first night Andrew Hall's Society Jazz Band played and were there every Saturday for seven years. Many of the old time musicians were featured, including members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The Society Jazz Band left in the summer of 1981 but have played there several times since then, including the 30th birthday party in 2004 and the 40th birthday party in 2014. Musical styles represented include blues, funk, R&B, rock, zydeco, jazz, jam bands.
  Frequent performers have included James Booker, Rebirth Brass Band,  Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Henry Butler,  Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Papa Grows Funk, and The Radiators. The bar has been an incubator for young bands formed by students at Tulane University, Loyola University, and the University of New Orleans.
  In recent history, the bar has weekly hosted residencies from acts such as Tank and the Bangas, The Revivalists, George Porter Jr., Jon Cleary (musician) and Johnny Vidacovich. Porter still holds a weekly, Monday night residency at the bar with his trio, featuring Terrence Houston, and Michael "Goldenthroat" Lemmler.
  Poet Everette Maddox was so closely tied to the venue that his ashes are buried in the bar's patio area. The Maple Leaf hosts poetry readings and fashion shows. The Krewe of OAK starts and ends its parades at the Maple Leaf, where it holds its Krewe Ball.
  The Maple Leaf is thinly disguised in the Ellen Gilchrist short story "The Raintree Street Bar and Washerteria" (the bar used to contain a laundromat). Poems about it can be found in Mirror Wars and Shards by Nancy Harris, Body and Soul and Rhythm & Booze by Julie Kane; The Everette Maddox Song Book, Bar Scotch, and American Waste by Everette Maddox; and in the anthologies The Maple Leaf Rag (1980), The Maple Leaf Rag 15th Anniversary Anthology (1994), and Maple Leaf Rag III (2006).
caption: Rebirth Brass Band performing at the Maple Leaf in New Orleans on 12-15-2015
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