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Music is everywhere in New Orleans, and that’s especially true from Sept. 23 – Oct. 9. Enjoy 17 days of special shows at some of the most iconic music venues across the city.

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NOLAxNOLA Venue Check in Challenge

  • Mobile exclusive
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How this Pass Works

Step 1 - Get Your Pass

This mobile exclusive passport is a collection of curated attractions, offering check ins redeem during your visit.

Step 2 - Receive Text

Your passport will be instantly delivered to your phone via text and email and is ready to use immediately! There is no app to download. Your pass can be saved to your phone’s home screen for easy one-tap access.

Step 3 - Redeem

When visiting a participating business, simply utilize your phone's built in GPS to check in at each location and win prizes!

Included Venues

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BK Historic House and Gardens
Designed in 1826, the BK Historic House and Gardens encompasses a complex of nineteenth and twentieth century buildings and gardens and their collections. Concerts are BYOB.
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Blue Nile
A groovy little atmospheric music club offering live performances from famous and up-and-coming jazz, blues, rock and funk acts.
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Bombay Club
A historic gem and New Orleans mainstay for martinis, jazz, and great food.
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Buffa's
Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Buffa's Bar has been on the "border of the Quarter" since 1939. Check out their weekend specials and jazz brunch with live music.
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Bywater Bakery
Chaya, pastry chef who is famous for Chantilly Cake and Gentilly Cake opened her own bakery to continue her passion for food. Her unique flavors and artistic drive will leave your stomach and eyes wanting more.
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Bywater Brew Pub
Bywater Beer Pub brings a homegrown, fullscale brewery to the heart of the Bywater. Its kitchen is led by Chef Anh Luu, who uses her Vietnamese background to create colorful and fun Gastropub food like no other. Bang mi burgers, spring rolls, Vietnamese Crawfish Etouffee nachos and more are among their original creations.
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Cafe Istanbul
Café Istanbul offers live theatre, music, stand-up, and films screenings to the New Orleans community while serving drinks in a coy, romantic setting.
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Candlelight Lounge
Small live music venue often featuring brass bands, with creole-style bar food.
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Carrollton Station
Local uptown bar with nightly events like trivia or live music.
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Columns
Housed in the lobby of a historic hotel, The Columns Hotel Bar is an iconic fixture on Saint Charles Avenue. The indoor parlors are moody and romantic, while the outside seating features a front-row seat to the streetcar as it breezes past underneath centuries-old oak trees in a lush, tropical setting. Known for their craft cocktails, they also offer a menu of small plates, snacks, and shareable bites.
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Commons Club New Orleans
Serving dinner daily and weekend brunch, Commons Club is the social epicenter of Virgin Hotels New Orleans and is designed to feel like a modern social club in a playful, sophisticated environment. Under the direction of Executive Chef Alex Harrell, the menu showcases contemporary Southern seasonal cuisine with Mediterranean influences.

Restaurant Week Venue

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d.b.a.
In the heart of the Frenchmen Street "music district," d.b.a. is a very hip-but not trendy-bar that offers off-the-cuff music geared towards local music lovers.
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Dos Jefes
Cigars & Drinks in an eclectic space of couches & seating, with a small outdoor patio.
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Double Dealer New Orleans
Located in the basement of the Orpheum Theater, Double Dealer is a subterranean cocktail lounge bustling with charm.
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Dragon's Den
Nestled on the corner of the historic Frenchmen and Esplanade Streets, Dragon's Den is a French Quarter favorite. With two floors, one stage, a full bar and an outdoor patio, this venue is the perfect place to grab a drink and enjoy live performances and DJ sets. Check their event calendar for weekly and specialty events.
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Fillmore New Orleans
Featuring 22,000 square feet of flexible design space, full-service event production, customized menus and creative beverage packages, along with access to the world's greatest musical entertainment and state-of-the-art lighting and sound. The Fillmore is your home for hosting New Orleans' most spectacular private events.
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Gasa Gasa
Gasa Gasa is the uptown neighborhood's newest music and arts venue. Located on Feret Street, Gasa Gasa supports local talent through weekly events that include art exhibits, live music shows, and film screenings. This funky arts house, which locals rave is cool and has great sound, is the perfect place to visit to explore the music and art scene that thrives in NOLA.
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Hi-Ho Lounge
HiHo Lounge prides itself on New Orleans musical tradition. HiHo is regarded as an underground alternative arts venue that hosts live music events every night of the week. The music will satisfy any ear, with genres ranging from hip-hop, funk, or indie rock. Beyond the music, HiHo has great drink specials everyday and inexpensive small plates made with local ingredients.
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House of Blues New Orleans
Premier live music and special events venue offering a casual restaurant and courtyard with Southern-inspired cuisine, happy hour from 3pm to 6pm, VIP Club and fine dining. Sunday Gospel Brunch at 10am. Special event space available for up to 1,500 guests. Visit website for calendar of live music performances.
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Joy Theater
Landmark Canal Street theater restored to its Art Deco grandeur. One block to French Quarter. State-of-the-art 10,000 square foot multi-purpose venue. Capacity of 1,200. Available for receptions, meetings, screenings, concerts and lectures.
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Kermit's Tremé Mother-in-Law Lounge
The late Emperor of the World, born in Charity Hospital, founded this one-of-a-kind bar, along with his lovely wife, Antoinette, also known as the Empress of the World. The entertainment varies but unvarying is Mrs. K-Doe's devotion to her late husband's legend. Soul food is often on the agenda.
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Le Bon Temps Roule
This local bar does not offer the specialty drinks that tourists are often after. It has a stage dubbed "House of Dues " where local bands play, often before they are discovered by the mainstream.
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Maple Leaf Bar
Small live music venue / bar on Oak Street. A regular spot for New Orleans bands.
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Music Box Village
A unique contemporary art sculpture garden where each house is a musical instrument. Explore and participate in hands on play during public hours, see orchestral shows with local and national musicians and much more. Reach out for more information on seasonal public hours and special events.
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New Orleans Jazz Market
Located on the historic Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, the New Orleans Jazz Market holds a magnificent theatre, full size bars, meeting rooms, interactive learning spaces and more. If you’re looking to see a concert, learn about a famous musician or hear live music at the bar, you have to stop by the Jazz Market and see what it’s all about!
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New Orleans Jazz Museum
Celebrates jazz in the city where it was born. Through dynamic interactive exhibits, multigenerational educational programming, research facilities and engaging musical performances, the music New Orleans made famous is explored in all its forms. Housed in the historic Old U.S. Mint, strategically located at the intersection of the French Quarter and the Frenchmen Street live music corridor, the New Orleans Jazz Museum is in the heart of the city's vibrant music scene. Through partnerships with local, national and international educational institutions, the New Orleans Jazz Museum promotes the global understanding of jazz as one of the most innovative, historically pivotal musical art forms in world history.
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NOLA Brewing
Visit NOLA Brewing where you can truly drink up a little bit of NOLA, brewed on-site! Our Tap Room offers a unique experience ... in the heart of the Irish Channel in Uptown New Orleans. Here, we guarantee you won’t go thirsty thanks to 24 taps of specialty beers brewed ... , we’re always happy to help! We don’t just brew beer we also brew memories!
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Oak Wine Bar
Steps from the streetcar, Oak Wine Bar is a sophisticated bar and eatery with a cool and embracing atmosphere. It combines an upscale, cosmopolitan style with New Orleans own laissez-faire attitude. Relax and unwind with a creative drink menu composed by renowned Sommelier Michelle Geuydan. Oak also serves up a diverse menu of small plates created by Chef Aaron Burgau of Patois Restaurant.
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One Eyed Jacks
All of the finer points of El Matador and The Shim Sham Club rolled into one hip venue. The club offers live jazz, funk, and rock as well as sexy burlesque shows that can't be found anywhere else.
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Orpheum Theater
Three levels of seating available for 1460 or standing reception for 800. Private VIP boxes, six bars and a speakeasy lounge round out the audience experience. Offers state-of-the-art sound and lighting, projector/screen and green rooms.
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Poor Boys Bar
Stop by Poor Boys Bar and Lounge for drinks specials, live DJ sets and dancing. This neighborhood dive bar is the perfect place to grab a drink in the heart of a Big Easy neighborhood.
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Preservation Hall
Open nightly with concerts at 8, 9 and 10pm Mondays through Wednesdays with additional 5 and 6pm performances Thursdays - Sundays, for the best in traditional New Orleans jazz for all ages. Limited online reservations are available at preservationhall.com/tickets and at the box office daily between 12-5pm. Also, available for private concerts, receptions and catered events.
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Royal Frenchmen Hotel and Bar
Chic, hip hotel in the middle of the Marigny Triangle on the bustling Frenchmen Street. Often has live music & private events are available.
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Santos Bar
Located in the world-famous French Quarter, Santos is a rock & roll bar hosting free, weekly events and live rock performances.
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Siberia
Neighborhood dive bar with live music and other nightly activities like trivia, comedy and burlesque. Serves typical bar-fare food like burgers, as well as "Slavic Soul food" and more.
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Sidney's Saloon
A psychedelic honky tonk!
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Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro
New Orleans' premier jazz club. Sets at 8pm and 10pm (see website for additional show times). Classic Creole cuisine. Call for ticket sales and/or dinner reservations.
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The Broadside
Outdoor venue for movies, music and more. Amentities include large stage, large projection screen with 4k projector, and sound system. Full bar on premises with standard movie theater fare like hot dogs & pop corn. They also often have pop-ups / food trucks.

The Broadside is the sister-venue to the Broad Theater, located across Toulouse street from the theater itself.
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The Chloe Hotel
Charming, small hotel in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans. Situated on St. Charles Avenue in view of the passing streetcars, enjoy the on premises restaurant, multiple bars and pool.
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The Civic Theatre
New Orleans’ oldest theatre, designed by Sam Stone in 1906, is revitalized with an eye to the future to become the city’s newest multipurpose venue, morphing itself to reflect the requirements and mood of the occasion.
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The Howlin' Wolf
Despite the name (conjuring images of Chicago blues), this club is the high velocity outlet for rock bands with occasional blues and jazz. Comfortable, cold A/C and owner Howie Kaplan is determined to make you love his club. Located in the Warehouse District.
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The Maison
Maison is a three level restaurant, bar and music venue with private event space located on world-famous Frenchmen Street, featuring the best live music in New Orleans seven days a week.
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The Saint Bar & Lounge
Late night, no frills dive bar with live music in the Lower Garden District.
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The Spotted Cat Music Club
The quintessential live jazz music venue in New Orleans. Located in the Faubourg Marigny, just steps from the French Quarter. Live music seven days a week.
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Three Keys At Ace Hotel New Orleans
Cozy live music venue located in the Ace Hotel New Orleans.
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Tipitina's
Tipitina's began as a neighborhood juke joint, established in 1977 by a group of young music fans to provide a place for Professor Longhair to perform in his final years. Since then Tipitina's has grown into an Uptown musical mainstay for both national and international touring acts, as well as being home to many of New Orleans' most historic artists. Available for public or private events, Tipitina's is an authentic part of the cultural fabric of New Orleans.
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Toulouse Theatre
Located just one block from Jackson Square, is the French Quarter's largest, artist-owned independent music venue and private event space.
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Treme Hideaway
The Treme Hideaway is one of New Orleans' best-kept secrets. Located near the Claiborne Bridge, enjoy a truly authentic night on the town - New Orleans style. With drink specials, hot food served nightly, and music throughout the evening, the Treme Hideaway is sure to please.
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Zony Mash Beer Project
Hip brewery in Central City with ample outdoor seating. Food trucks are regular visitors.