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Monday, December 6th, 2010
I don’t need mulled beer as badly as I thought. Metairie is cold enough. Dear weather, I take it back, please warm up.
Those of you familiar with The Rivershack are well aware that our beer selection is almost as unique as our collection of admittedly insane bar stools and the lunatics like you that plant their bottoms upon them while lifting the bottoms of their glasses to the air. A week or so ago I wrote that it’s about time to start drinking some of that beer warm, or even heated as was the standard in the middle ages. They called it mulled. I call it my favorite winter Soup Of The Day.
Full disclosure: I am a New Jersey transplant. A damned yankee. There is no force in this world strong enough to again uproot me and turn me from an Oleander back into a Pine Tree. One of the things I love about this town? The weather. Well, when it’s not too rainy. Back up north I’d get odd looks drinking my ale mulled. Down here I have a feeling bar patrons would slowly shift their stools a few inches away and watch me out of the corner of their eyes. Still, I was looking forward to a cold enough day to justify sidling up to the bar, casting the ‘tender a sly smile and saying, “One pale ale… and warm it up.”
Well that day has come and gone. I’m sick of wearing gloves already. Sun, get your act together and warm me up – I’m ready for an ice cold brew at The Rivershack. Although, another warm buttered rum might just hit the spot!
Tags: beer, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
There’s a chill wind blowing through the parish, my friends, as we prepare to launch our Metairie beer blog. As happens yearly the weather turned overnight from burning to blowing, from fresh to frigid, from sahara to tundra. But one thing remains hot: Metairie’s live music. And the best place to listen? You guessed it (shameless self promotion!) the one and only Rivershack Tavern.
Huff and puff the chill winds may blow, but our simple shack’s fun times only will grow. One of the best things about good beer, good people and good music in Metairie is that it brings people in out of the cold. Yeah, the river may rise, but the shack will (you guessed it) get down!
Come down to The Rivershack and don’t be shy about it. Come in here and you’re family, and you’ll have a great time.
Tags: beer, Live Music, Metairie
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Sunday, October 24th, 2010
If there’s one thing Metairie is good for it’s food. If there’s two things, it’s a good time with great live music – and there’s one band that hasn’t made it out here yet. Let’s change that.
Now I know that not everyone in Metairie digs on provincial jazz or acoustic foreign folk music but Haramouche is one hell of a trio. Joyous, energetic and friendly they really entertain. Now, Metairie is a blues, country, folk and rock town – is it ready for something new? What do you say, Metairie, can you deal with a little something new? If you are, the only problem is that I’m not sure they exist.
I heard them jamming out in the French Quarter and everyone (of every description, as you only find in the quarter) was enjoying it. Loudly. The problem is they had four CDs, all of them with a different band name. Can anyone here help me track down my new favorite live music performers and bring them to Metairie?
Tags: food, fun good drinks, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Two weeks from now the dead will enjoy live music in Metairie and throughout New Orleans. Cabalistic chants will fill the beer-soaked air. Revellers in boogey masks will dance the tarantella and people from all over the world will try to out-scare one another in the most haunted city in America. Halloween, and with it the voodoo music and art experience, are returning to the New Orleans area. Truly, they’re returning home. The pageantry, the spookiness, the celebration, the downright fun. This is what Metairie is about. Good times and good music with good friends. Of course it also means lots of tourists, more excitement than we see outside of mardis gras and barely any chance to relax.
I don’t know about you, but I prefer to get my kicks in before candyday.. I mean, Halloween. Come out to The Rivershack in the next few weekends and get some preemptive shelter from the coming storm of papier mache and discarded plastic hand grenades. Get your fill of real Metairie live music all year long here, even when the rest of town is selling out for a week.
Tags: fun, harahan, Live Music, Metairie
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
Another week gone, another week of live music down. Were you in Metairie while Refried Confuzion turned our little corner of the world upside down? Were you in the audience on Friday when Truman Holland brought the south back with soul so genuine you can hear the 2 x 4’s creaking on his porch in his voice?
If you weren’t, shame on you. The best live music in the best little bar in Metairie and you stayed home with your mom and them or headed into the French Quarter to get wasted with the tourists and damn yankees when you should have been paying a visit and bringing the whole family to have the best weekend they could have. Shame. But we forgive you – here you’re family and you can always come back.
Come on down this coming week and see what we got in store. Reed Allemen’s kicking off our weekend on Thursday with his unique, low-fi sound and songs that make you think about home and feel the clay between your toes. Li’l Red and Big Bad come by on Friday and you should too, picking up the energy a little bit and making the romantic couples feel right at home. Saturday’s Kim Carson and if you don’t know about Kim you need to find out. You need to be careful when you see Kim – she’ll have your shoes dancing whether your feet like it or not and your gramma might just join in. She’s got the rhythm and the voice to reach into you and tug out some love.
Get on down to the river and stop in the Rivershack on Thursday evening, and don’t leave til Sunday morning.
Tags: fun, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
If you like live music, I mean really like live music, and you’re near Metairie on Thursday, you have to stop by the ‘Shack – with your favorite instrument. It’s Jam time with Austin and Jim, and we want to see your funkiest instruments. We’re not saying don’t bring your guitar, bass or trumpet: Metairie loves live rock and jazz! We’re saying, if you have a didgeridoo, tom toms, vuvuzela or snare drum full of hyperactive bees toss it in the car and come on down.
That is, if you’re not too blitzed from Wednesday’s Pintapalooza. I mean, everyone in Metairie loves cheap drinks, so everyone in Metairie likes 2 bucks off every damn pint and two for one Stolis. Just wake up in time for Thursday night or you’ll miss out on the best live music fun you can have anywhere in, or out of, town.
Tags: beer, fun, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
It’s been too long since we’ve updated this blog on Live Music In Metairie, but we’ve got a great excuse – we’ve been too busy enjoying the great local bands and cold brews we serve up with regularity.
Every week at The Rivershack Tavern in Metairie you’ll find at least three great local musicians and musical groups rocking the house. Who’s playing this week, you ask? Just call us up (504 834 4938) and ask – you won’t be disappointed.
We’re proud to show that Metairie is the right place to find the best music, best drinks and best food in the New Orleans area. You don’t have to go to the French Quarter and pay an arm and a leg. Come to the Rivershack and we’ll only charge you a toe and a finger.
Tags: beer, food, fun, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
We realized a couple of things recently. First: Live music is the heart and soul of Metairie and of The River Shack. Second: There is no good online source of information about Metairie’s live music scene. Well, now there is.
Welcome to the first live music blog for the Metairie scene. From now on we’ll be posting weekly about the bands, acts and local talent that really help Metairie shine. And rock. And roll. Yes, we’re biased. We will be featuring the talent that passes through our doors and expounding on the virtue of the shows we host – but how can we help it? They rule. They don’t get in our doors unless they’ve got soul. They don’t hook up the amps if they don’t rock. They don’t sing on our stage if they act their damn age.
New Orleans proper has too long held the public’s eye with it’s well deserved lighthouse beacon of local and non-local musical acts at the expense of Metairie and the surrounding area’s excellent tune makers. New Orleans’ publicity might outshine Metairie’s, but Metairie’s music retains its roots. To be successful in New Orleans’ spotlight, live music acts homogenize their sounds and conform to what tourists think Jazz should be. To please a Metairie crowd a band perfects its form and takes it to the next level.
It’s about time there was a source for information on the bands that play outside the bright lights / big city. That time has come. Stay tuned.
Tags: fun, harahan, Live Music, Metairie
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
This week is a great one for live music in Metairie. Starting with Amanda Walker & Friends tonight we’ve got a hell of a line-up sure to get your feet tapping. This week at The Rivershack Tavern we have Mark Carson on Friday and The Mustard Brothers on Saturday. We’d have a show on Thursday but we’re making room for…
… THE FIRST SAINTS GAME OF THE SEASON! Be sure to stop by and toast our champions as they soundly trounce the Patriots. Should the unthinkable happen you’ll be in the right place to drown your sorrows in an ice cold glass of Abita.
But we’re not talking about the greatest football team ever to grace the Mississippi River. No, we’re talking about the greatest venue to stomp and clap to live music in Metairie – also along the Mississippi River. Check out the artist descriptions below so you can decide what nights you’ll be here having a good time.
Amanda Walker has been called “bewitching” and “dramatic” by the Times Picayune, compared to Alanis Morissette and Anna Nalick by Where Y’at, and fawned over in Offbeat Magazine. Find out why – and bring your lady friend. (Tonight, Monday the 9th)
Mark Carson lists among his influences The Beatles, Johnny Cash and Arethra Franklin. When he’s not dealing with those obvious symptoms of split personality disorder he’s rocking us with his home brewed fusion of country melancholy, rockabilly rhythm and soundtrack ambiance. Come see why we invite him back.
The Mustard Brothers put on a one hell of a rocking show… and otherwise defy description. Perhaps their website says enough.
Tags: beer, Friday, fun, good drinks, Live Music, Metairie
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
New Orleans was founded in 1718 when French explorer Jean-Baptise Bienville claimed it with the intention of building a new colonial city. Two hundred years later, a guy named Walter. J. Teolet established a bar and grocery store in Harahan on the banks of the Mississippi river.
It’s unlikely that Mr. Teolet knew that his dwelling would some day become the Rivershack Tavern and serve up bodacious beers, burgers and live music for locals and tourists in metro New Orleans, but that’s what happened.
In the years between, the tavern existed in various forms as a bar, inn, private residence and liquor store. Then, just a few years ago, the asbestos shingles from the Rivershack Tavern were peeled off revealing a slew of cardboard advertisements from the 1940’s. The already rich history of the tavern became local lore.
History is a confluence of people and places from the past and here at the Rivershack Tavern, we like to reflect on those who have come before us.
What would Mr. Teolet be up to today if he was still around? Would he be running the pool table at the Rivershack Tavern in between snacking on a delicious platter of buffalo oysters?
How about Mrs. Golda Brooks, who was proprietor of a liquor store at the Rivershack Tavern dwelling between 1954-1957? Would she stop in to taste one of the many ice cold beers the Shack has on tap. Would she consider it, like many do, to be the best bar and restaurant outside of the French Quarter to watch sports and listen to live music?
Would she get her groove on to one of the many live blues, rock, jazz and funk bands that tear up the stage at the Shack every week? Would she stop in on Tuesday and trade a tacky ashtray for a free drink?
We believe that the history of metro New Orleans comes alive at the Rivershack Tavern. We’ve been around in our current incarnation since 1990, and in that time thousands of locals and tourists have come through our doors. Many of them prefer the cheap beers and great live music at the Shack over pricey, crowded French Quarter bars. We like to think that our ancestors would do the same.
Tags: beer, food, fun good drinks, harahan, Live Music, Metairie
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