The Drop Inn jam session hosted by local comedian and MC, DC Paul is a long-running Wednesday night jam with a house band and rotating special guests weekly. The series originally began in 2016 at (what was) the New Orleans Jazz Market on O.C. Haley Blvd with beloved house band CoolNasty and regular rotating members from Tank & The Bangas and countless other musicians from the city's burgeoning young new R&B-soul-funk-jazz scene.

After a few years of hiatus through covid pandemic times, the grand re-opening of the 50-years-abandoned, legendary Dew Drop Inn Hotel & Lounge offered the famed Wednesday night jam a new home at at one of America's most important historic sites for Black music, civil rights, and American music in general.

Since March 2024, the mid-week soul church has been re-branded as The Drop-Inn Jam Session with a new young house band, but the same format and certainly, the same vibes. The night opens with an open-mic sign-up, culminates with a special guest performance, and rolls out with an open jam session.

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SPECIAL GUEST THIS WEEK ~ A.J. Haynes of The Seratones

A.J. Haynes is a Grammy-winning Southern Black and Filipina queer singer, songwriter, educator, and reproductive freedom advocate originally from Shreveport, Louisiana. She is the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the genre-expansive soul-power and rock-and-soul band The Seratones, who blends soul, rock & roll, disco, gospel, folk, and found-soundscapes.

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Cashless Bar and soul food kitchen available.

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