Happy Monday with Livin' to Eat and Great Music!

Happy Monday - It's a beautiful day in the Crescent City!

All Week Long!!

A Yummy way to spend your week!  The Louisiana Restaurant Association Greater New Orleans Chapter is proud to unveil the inaugural We Live to Eat: Louisiana Seafood Restaurant Week, celebrating the art and appreciation of dining in New Orleans. During the week of September 12-18, 2011, more than thirty local restaurants will offer two-course lunches for $20 and three-course dinners for $35. It's a chance to enjoy exceptional dining and satisfy your palate the way only New Orleans cooking can... at a great value.  http://www.welivetoeatnola.com/restaurant-week/

Monday Night Music

If you're Uptown - It's lovely weather for some porch sippin' over at the Columns Hotel (3811 St. Charles)....It's David Doucet of Beausoleil fame at 8:00 pm tonight!

And there's more Mid-City fun over at Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal)...with a great happy hour and the Vincedent at 6:00 pm with (no cover)!  And of course come hungry - the Taceaux Loceaux is overflowing with yummy food!

Head on down to Mid-City and to the Banks Street Bar (4401 Banks) about 9:00 pm for the N'awlins Johnnys and FREE red beans tonight!

And If you're lookin' for some bluegrass music tonight you don't have to go too far to find it....Check out the Hi Ho Lounge (2239 St. Claude) and the Bluegrass Pickin' Party at 8:00 pm...there's no cover and cheap and yummy red beans (veggie red beans too)! 

BMC (1331 Decatur) has a great early show at 5:00 pm with Fun in the Pocket featuring Mayumi Shara (drummer extraordinaire)...then stay on for the next show at 9:30 with Smoky Greenwell's Blues Jam!!

And two great shows at the Maison (508 Frenchmen) with the sultry sounds of Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Band at 7:00 pm, and The New Orleans Super Jam at 10:00 pm.

Be sure to make a stop by the Spotted Cat (623 Frenchmen) early for this great line-up of music...Ben Polcer at 4:00 pm, Dominick Grillo and The Frenchmen Street All Stars at 6:00 pm and be sure to stay on for the Jazz Vipers at 10:00 pm.....it's sure to be another smokin' Monday evening show.

To top off you're evening....you gotta go Uptown and over to the Maple Leaf (8316 Oak) for Papa Grows Funk at 10:00 pm - he really knows how to get your Monday night groovin' - there's a cover for the show, but the "funk" is worth it!!!

Have a great one...and for more musical fun check out WWOZ Livewire - http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar...until tomorrow!



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