Music tour category
Live music tours for guests who care most about what happens after dark: a show or a club route every night, with a tour leader who knows the room.
Any city can sell you a ticket. What a tour leader adds is knowing which of fifty bars has the band worth hearing tonight, when to arrive, where to stand, and when to leave for the next room.
On these tours the nights come first. In New Orleans that means Preservation Hall, three clubs on Frenchmen Street and a brass band uptown. In Nashville it is the Opry and the honky-tonks, with a bluegrass detour. In Austin, the Continental Club, ACL Live, the Broken Spoke and Red River. In Chicago, Buddy Guy's, the Green Mill and Kingston Mines. In Seattle, the Crocodile and Capitol Hill.
Days are shorter and mornings start later. The program show usually ends by eleven; after that the tour leader carries on with anyone who wants more and walks everyone back to the hotel.
Cover charges for the program nights are in the price. Drinks are not, and many clubs have a one or two drink minimum, which soft drinks count toward.
Seats or tables booked, or a planned club route.
Of the clubs, or a short van ride.
Mornings begin after ten when the night was long.
7 tours
New Orleans
New Orleans
Five days in the city that invented jazz, staying in the Marigny a block from Frenchmen Street, with Preservation Hall, a brass band night uptown and the Natchez on the river.
From $2,390 per person, double room
See the tourNashville
Nashville
A long weekend that does Nashville properly: the Opry live, a backstage morning at the Ryman, Studio B, and a songwriter night away from Broadway.
From $1,890 per person, double room
See the tourAustin
Austin
Five days on South Congress with a club every night: the Continental Club, ACL Live, a two-step lesson at the Broken Spoke, and the rock rooms of Red River.
From $2,290 per person, double room
See the tourAustin
Austin
Four days timed to SXSW in March or the Austin City Limits Festival in October, with passes, a hotel near the action and a tour leader who has done both many times.
From $3,190 per person, double room
See the tourChicago
Chicago
Four nights of Chicago music: the Chess studio by day, Buddy Guy's club, the North Side blues bars and the Green Mill, where Capone's booth still faces the door.
From $1,990 per person, double room
See the tourSeattle
Seattle
Four days on the trail of Hendrix and grunge: MoPOP, the clubs and record stores of Belltown and Capitol Hill, the Hendrix memorial and a day in Aberdeen.
From $2,190 per person, double room
See the tourNew Orleans
New Orleans
A day with a local musician: Tremé and Congo Square in the morning, the Jazz Museum after lunch, and three clubs on Frenchmen Street at night.
From $189 per person, lunch included
See the tourLand prices per person sharing a double room.
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Questions
Some, yes. We bring earplugs for anyone who wants them, and pick seated rooms where we can.
No. The program show ends by about eleven and you can head back then.
Many are, and they check ID whatever your age. Carry a photo ID every evening.
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