Thu, Apr 23
|Maple Leaf Bar
007
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM - Drummer Jeffrey "the Houseman" Clemens (G. Love & Special Sauce) assembled some of New Orleans' finest — guitarists Alex McMurray and Jonathan Freilich, plus bassist Joe Cabral of the Iguanas — to revive rocksteady, the mellow, bass-heavy bridge between ska and reggae.
Time & Location
Apr 23, 2026, 8:00 PM
Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak St, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
About The Event
007 | Live at the Maple Leaf Bar
You know ska. You know reggae. But do you know rocksteady? That's exactly the gap that 007 was built to fill — and Jazz Fest weekend at the Maple Leaf is the perfect place to get schooled.
Dreamed up by Jeffrey "the Houseman" Clemens, drummer for G. Love & Special Sauce, 007 is a love letter to a very specific and very cool slice of Jamaican music history: rocksteady, the mellow, bass-heavy bridge between ska and reggae that had its heyday right around 1966-1968. Think ska slowed down, stripped of the horns, and grooving deep. It's the sound that laid the groundwork for Bob Marley, and honestly, it just feels right in New Orleans.
The band is stacked with local heavy hitters — guitarist Alex McMurray of Royal Fingerbowl, avant-garde jazz guitarist Jonathan Freilich of the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars, and bassist…
TICKETS
Advance - 007
Sale ends
Apr 23, 12:10 AM
8PM $20 Adv $25 Day of Show *21 & Up* NOTE: $4 Ticketing Fee
$24.00
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