Preservation Hall
Music Venue · New Orleans, Louisiana
A bare room off Bourbon Street holding about a hundred people, with peeling walls, no bar, no air conditioning worth the name and a handful of benches at the front for anyone who gets there early. Traditional New Orleans jazz has been played here every night since 1961, when Allan and Sandra Jaffe took over a failing art gallery and started paying elderly musicians properly to play the music they had grown up with. It is the least comfortable and most important room in American music, and the sets are forty-five minutes long.
726 St Peter Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70116, United States
Open for scheduled sets only — several nightly, typically from early evening, about 45 minutes each. There is no daytime access and no tours; the building is a locked door otherwise. Tickets online in advance are the reliable route, sold as general admission or reserved seating, with some walk-up capacity usually held for a queue on St Peter Street. There is no bar, no food and no photography or recording during sets. Sells out at weekends, during Jazz Fest and over Mardi Gras.
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