THAIS CLARK
Saturday, September 27th
Doors 5:30pm, Music 6:30-9pm
Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall
Legendary singer, Thais Clark, is a New Orleans jazz and blues powerhouse whose rich, soulful voice and electrifying stage presence have captivated audiences for over four decades. Born and raised in the city’s historic Seventh Ward, she burst onto the scene at age 35 in Vernel Bagneris’s hit musical One Mo’ Time, earning international acclaim and touring the world from Off-Broadway to Europe and Asia. Channeling the raw emotion of legends like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, Clark has shared the stage with jazz greats including Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Whether delivering bawdy blues, tender ballads, or foot-stomping traditional jazz, she embodies the spirit, resilience, and joy of New Orleans music.
Presented by the Friends of the Dew Drop, this concert will feature home-cooked food for purchase provided by the Ladies of First Free Mission Baptist Church, located next door. Soft drinks, water, beer and wine will be available for purchase. The concert begins at 6:30pm and will run till 9pm, doors open at 5:30pm.
Admission is $10 per adult. Students and children can enter free. No outside food or drinks are allowed and lawn chairs can be used outside the hall on the grounds. Please, no smoking allowed on premises, and no pets allowed, except certified service animals.
About the Dew Drop: In 1885, a group of civic-minded African American residents of the village of Mandeville, led by the late Olivia Eunio, created the Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Association. A decade later, in 1895, the organization laid a cornerstone and constructed a small wooden building 2 1/2 blocks from Lake Pontchartrain on Lamarque Street. The Association, like many created among African American residents following the Civil War, had chiefly benevolent goals - to care for the sick, provide help with funeral arrangements, food & temporary housing - all during a time when black residents could not obtain various types of insurance. Starting around the turn of the century, and for more than 40 years the Dew Drop was a sparkling center of musical activity for the neighborhood and community. Documentation reveals that early jazz greats such as Buddie Petit, Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson, George Lewis and even Louis Armstrong shared the small stage inside the building.
Today, known as one of the oldest, unaltered rural jazz halls in the U.S. the 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, Friends of the Dew Drop, schedules and manages the hall’s performances and educational activities (JazzKids). Along with hundreds of evening concerts presented in the historic hall over two decades the Friends of the Dew Drop have also gifted 50+ free JazzKids music assemblies and master classes since 2015 to schools in St. Tammany Parish, reaching over 12,000 local students in grades PreK-12.
The mission of the Friends of the Dew Drop is to preserve the Dew Drop Jazz Hall and promote its significance in the origins and the cultural history of Mandeville though music performances, music education programs and benevolent activities in support of local and emerging artists.
For more information, please visit www.dewdropjazzhall.com.
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