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John Gros Band 10pm $10

Sat, Dec 30

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Maple Leaf Bar

John Gros Band 10pm $10

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John Gros Band 10pm $10
John Gros Band 10pm $10

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Dec 30, 2017, 10:00 PM

Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak St, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA

About The Event

http://johnpapagros.com/

New Orleans native John “Papa” Gros (pronounced grow) has spent more than a quarter-century behind the piano championing the music of the Big Easy. He turns over a new leaf with his second solo album, River’s on Fire, which is set for release August 26th. It’s a record that mixes the sounds of rock & roll, funk and rootsy Americana into a genre-bending gumbo that carries on the tradition of New Orleans, both honoring its past and helping to shape its future.

Inspired by hometown hero and longtime colleague Allen Toussaint, who passed away while Gros was recording the album on the Vermilion bayou in southwest Louisiana, River’s on Fire is John’s first release since his former band, Papa Grows Funk, disbanded in 2013. The quintet held down a weekly residency for more than a dozen years at the famous Maple Leaf Bar in Uptown New Orleans, mixing the…

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