Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall

If only old buildings and old live oak trees could talk. While that may border on cliche, it is certainly true for the Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall built in 1895, the same year that historians agree that traditional American jazz was being invented across Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans.

By the turn of the century inventive young musicians who are now considered icons in the historic development of this unique New Orleans musical gift to the world, were making their way by steamer boat to Mandeville to play on the small stage of the Dew Drop.

If the old walls of the building and the old stage could speak, along with the graceful ancient live oaks around the building, they all would likely tell of the times that Kid Ory, Bunk Johson, Buddy Petit, Louis Armstrong and so many others made beautiful music well into the long and starry nights in Mandeville and the faithful gathered to listen and to dance the night away at the Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall.

Friends of the Dew Drop, invite you to come visit our hallowed monument to the growth of this musical form.

Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall
400 Lamarque Street
Mandeville, LA 70448
phone: (985) 626-4312
web: http://www.dewdropjazzhall.com/
email: dewdropjazzhall@hotmail.com