Madame Vic's

11/22/2025

Im going to open .
MADAME VIC'S tonight,
9 PM til Midnight for some pre-Thanksgiving drinking, however no band! Come by and hang with us! Bring CASH!

09/27/2025

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
MADAME VIC’S is open TONIGHT, Sat, Sept 27th for an evening of CELEBRATION: 2 bands, 2 parties and an art opening!
First up, Dayna Kurtz and Robert Mache', 5 to 8pm!
Next, Margie Perez and Elijah Hartman 9pm til Midnight!
We are celebrating Dayna's 60th birthday and having a going away party for Maureen Basha !
There will be CAKE & FOOD!
ART SHOW featuring Michael Fedor, 4 pm til!.
Spread the word! Bring cash because we don't have a way to process cards! CASH ONLY
1500 Elysian Fields Ave
So excited to see everyone!

09/27/2025

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
MADAME VIC’S is open TONIGHT, Sat, Sept 27th for an evening of CELEBRATION: 2 bands, 2 parties and an art opening!
First up, Dayna Kurtz and Robert Mache', 5 to 8pm!
Next, Margie Perez and Elijah Hartman 9pm til Midnight!
We are celebrating Dayna's 60th birthday and having a going away party for Maureen Basha !
There will be CAKE & FOOD!
ART SHOW featuring Michael Fedor, 4 pm til!.
Spread the word! Bring cash because we don't have a way to process cards! CASH ONLY!
1500 Elysian Fields Ave
So excited to see everyone!

09/25/2025

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
MADAME VIC’S is opening on Sat, Sept 27th for an evening of CELEBRATION: 2 bands, 2 parties and an Art Opening!
First up, Dayna Kurtz and Robert Mache', 5 to 8pm!
Next, Margie Perez and Elijah Hartman 9pm til Midnight!
We are celebrating Dayna's 60th birthday and having a going away party for Maureen Basha !
There will be CAKE & FOOD!
ART SHOW featuring Michael Fedor, 4 pm til!.
Spread the word! Bring cash because we don't have a way to process cards! CASH ONLY!
So excited to see everyone!

09/18/2025

ONE NIGHT ONLY! MADAME VIC’S is opening on Sat, Sept 27th for an evening of CELEBRATION: 2 bands, 2 parties and an art opening!
First up, Dayna Kurtz and Robert Mache', 5 to 8pm!
Next, Margie Perez and Elijah Hartman, 9pm til Midnight!
We are celebrating Dayna's 60th birthday and having a going away party for Maureen Basha !
There will be CAKE & FOOD! Art show with Michael Fedor , time to be determined.
Spread the word! Bring cash because we don't have a way to process cards! CASH ONLY!

09/18/2025

SID ARODIN--UP THE LAZY RIVER
Sid Arodin's father, Victor Arnondin and my great grandfather, Leonce Arnondin were brothers. He didnt think audiences could pronounce his original French name Arnondin so he dropped 2 of the n's to create his stage name, Arodin.
The Arnondin family survived the Cheniere Caminada Hurricane of 1893 and moved to Westwego after the storm devastated the island.

LIFTED FROM WIKI:
Sidney Arnondin, better known as Sidney Arodin (March 29, 1901- February 6, 1948), was an American jazz clarinetist and songwriter, best known for co-writing the jazz and pop standard "Lazy River" with Hoagy Carmichael.
A native of Westwego, La., Arodin began playing clarinet at age 15 and played at local New Orleans gatherings and on riverboats. He made his way to New York City and played with Johnny Stein's New Orleans Jazz Band from 1922. He played with Jimmy Durante in the middle of the decade, then returned to Louisiana to play with Wingy Manone and Sharkey Bonano. In the 1930s he worked with Louis Prima and with a reconstituted version of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings which also featured Manone. After 1941, Arodin's poor health prevented him from playing frequently live, but before this time he recorded with Johnnie Miller, Albert Brunies, Monk Hazel, and the Jones-Collins Astoria Hot Eight.

I lifted this from BrilliantCornersaBostonJazzBlog: Tuesday, July 8, 2025--
IN*******AL JAZZ RECORDING ( #39) SIDNEY ARODIN and THE ASTORIA HOT 8.
This was the house band in the Astoria Hotel in New Orleans in 1928/1929-hence the name. Most of the players in the group have impressive jazz resumes. For example, coronetist Lee Collins took over when Louis Armstrong left King Oliver. Al Morgan, powerhouse bassist, played with everyone.
Sidney Arodin is our racial "odd man out" in this otherwise black group. He wrote the song "Up A Lazy River" with Hoagy Carmichael and also played with, among others, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Wingy Manone and Louis Prima.
Arodin is a simplification of either the name Arnandan or Arnondrin and Sidney's family was French (from France, not Creole). Arodin may or may not have played with the rest of the group at the Astoria, as a mixed-race group sharing a stage would have been pretty much unheard of at that time.
Jones and Collins Astoria Hot 8: Lee Collins, c / Sidney Arodin, cl / Theodore Purnell, as / David Jones, ts / Joe Robechaux, p / Emmanuel Sayles, bj / Al Morgan, sb, v / Joe Strode-Raphael, d. New Orleans, November 15, 1929.

09/18/2025

Please sign this petition to keep live music at the Blue Crab! Many of Madame Vic's musicians play there regularly and depend on the Blue Crab for income!

271 signatures are still needed! Support Live Music at The Blue Crab!

08/25/2025

Bar is now listed separately from the upstairs Inn. Please share it!

NEIGHBORHOOD BAR/LIVE MUSIC VENUE/EVENT SPACE Located in historic New Marigny, Madame Vic's is a Live Music Bar with a Speak-Easy Vibe and also serves...

06/02/2025

Just had a 2 hour showing to a potential buyer who wants to keep the live music going at MADAME VIC'S! Fingers crossed!

05/10/2025

Tonight is the last night of LIVE MUSIC AT MADAME VIC'S!!!
TETRAD with Angie Bachemin, Gingerbread the Original and a host guest singers/players will close us out, 8 to 11pm!
Hope to see u there!
Complimentary food in the back bar!
Rob and Andrea will be working the front bar!
1500 Elysian Fields Ave