NIGHTLIFE
 As the sun slowly
descends behind the Crescent City,
bartenders everywhere are making
their lists and checking them
twice as they gear up for another
night in an ongoing year-long
party that both begins and ends
with the traditional celebration
of Carnival. While New York may be
the city that never sleeps, New
Orleans is the city that doesn’t
care about New York or its
sleeping habits, or about much of
anything else besides having fun
and enjoying life. New Orleans is
a city where alcohol is a
supplement to living, and there
are over 400 bars to help you get
your necessary daily supplement.
This guide gives you a peek inside
some of the best bars,
dance
clubs, cabaret
and live
music venues in the city.
Modern
music, stemming from its roots in
Jazz and Blues, was born in New
Orleans, and it continues to
thrive here. On any given night,
you can wonder out to a club and
see some of the best live music in
the world. Whether it be the
slow-swing grooves of Kermit
Ruffins and his Bar-B-Que
Swingers, the psychic high-energy
funk of the legendary Funky
Meters, the impeccable talents of
up-and-coming young jazz giants
like Irvin Mayfield and Jason
Marsalis, or the mind-blowing
fusion-esque performances from
local college bands like Jonas
Risin, Oil, and the Cosmic Arc, it
is all there for you to explore
and experience and enjoy every
night of the week.
Music lovers
should venture away from Bourbon
Street and towards Frenchman
Street. Nowadays, Frenchmen Street
is one of the city's most
happening musical thoroughfares.
With the help of now-famous clubs
like Snug Harbor and the Dragon’s
Den, Frenchman Street has become
the true center of the New Orleans
Jazz scene.
If
you want to avoid the live music
scene, there are many incredible
bars littered though-out the city,
ranging from the elegant and
expensive to the cheap and dirty.
You will be hard pressed not have
a good time in the French Quarter.
When Bourbon Street grows
tiresome, you can wander the many
side streets where some excellent
pubs, like the Kerry and the
R-Bar, are lodged away in quaint
nooks and crannies everywhere you
turn. Or head Uptown on the
trolley-line into the Garden
District where many of the hip
young bars, like Snake and Jake’s
and the Club, are guaranteed to
show you a good time.
If
dancing is your thing, try the 735
Club on Bourbon Street or the
Metro in the Warehouse District,
or any number of great clubs for
the young and the old situated all
around the New Orleans area. New
Orleans nightlife has limitless
opportunities, so plan your
evenings well, or don’t plan
them at all. It’s the Big Easy,
after all, so do what you want. It
is impossible not to have a great
time.
Click
on any of the links to below to
find just what you’re looking
for.
New
Orleans Cabaret
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