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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

New Orleans has hundreds of rooms where music happens; Chickie Wah Wah is one of the few built for listening to it. The intimate music bar at 2828 Canal Street in Mid-City, a short streetcar ride from the French Quarter, was opened in 2006 by Dale Triguero, a New York-born promoter who had cut his teeth booking club shows before moving south in the 1990s. He took over the old Canal Bus Stop dive bar and named his room after a 1956 Ace Records single by Bobby Marchan - one of the city's first dra...