615 Toulouse Street has a robust history of presenting the very best in live music and entertainment from across the world since 1970, right in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Construction on the current building began in 1969, when the facility was built to house a single screen Walter Reade cinema featuring first-run films.
In June of 1977, the facility began its history as a live performance space, with an opening night performance by The Neville Brothers. In the late 1970s and Early 1980s, the theatre was known for hosting regular performances of Vernel Bagneris’s vaudeville musical One Mo Time!, and the lobby bar hosted regular performances by James Booker.
The venue began it’s rise to prominence as a national touring destination when Morgan Higby Night opened his Shim Sham Club here in 1998. Shortly after the Shim Sham Club closed in 2003, Rio Hackford and Ryan Hesseling reopened the venue as One Eyed Jacks, which they operated until March of 2020.
After the closure of One Eyed Jacks, the property was renovated and reborn as the Toulouse Theatre again in October 2021.
The Toulouse Theatre continues to operate as a proudly independent venue, committed to presenting live entertainment from around the world in the heart of New Orleans.
Here’s an incomplete list of notable past acts to perform at Toulouse Theatre from both its current and past iterations:
… And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Alabama Shakes
Alvvays
Amos Lee
Angel Olsen
Animal Collective
Arcade Fire
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Ash
Bahamas
Benjamin Booker
Big Freedia
Bill Callahan
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Black Lips
Blitzen Trapper
Bloc Party
Bonnie Prince Billy
Boris
British Sea Power
Built to Spill
Calexico
Cass McCombs
Chairlift
Charles Bradley
Charli XCX
Charlie Louvin
Chelsea Light Moving
Chelsea Wolfe
Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah
Corrosion of Conformity
Counting Crows
Shim Sham Club
– April 27, 2002
– May 5, 2000
Courtney Barnett
Crooked Fingers
Crystal Castles
Cults
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Deafheaven
Deerhunter
Delorean
Delta Spirit
Dengue Fever
Dr. Dog
Eagles of Death Metal
EyeHateGod
Father John Misty
FIDLAR
Flamin’ Groovies
Foxygen
Fruit Bats
Futurebirds
Girls
Great Lake Swimmers
Greta Van Fleet
Guided By Voices
HAIM
Hayes Carll
Heartless Bastards
Helio Sequence
Holy Fuck
Hurray for the Riff Raff
James Booker
James McMurtry
Japandroids
Jay Reatard
Jeff Mangum
Jessica Pratt
Joan Baez
John Maus
Jon Spencer
Jonathan Richman
Josh Ritter
Joy Formidable
Justin Townes Earle
Kamasi Washington
Karl Denson
King Khan
King Tuff
Kishi Bashi
Kurt Vile
L.A. Guns
Lady Gaga
Lee Fields & The Expressions
Leftover Salmon
Lindsey Buckingham
Little Dragon
Los Campesinos!
Lower Dens
Lucy Dacus
M. Ward
Marie Stern
Mark Lanegan
Meat Puppets
Melvins
Shim Sham Club
– May 6, 2000
Mike Watt
Modern English
Monotonix
Mount Eerie
Mount Moriah
Mutemath
My Morning Jacket
Shim Sham Club
– June 8, 2002 ⁺⁺
Neon Indian
Neville Brothers
Oberhofer
Okkervil River
Old 97’s
Parquet Courts
Peaches
Peter Bjorn and John
Phosphorescent
Pinback
Portugal. The Man
Pretty Lights
Queens of the Stone Age
Ra Ra Riot
Real Estate
Richard Buckner
Robert Glasper Experiment
One Eyed Jacks
– May 2, 2019 (footage)
Robyn Hitchcock
Rogue Wave
Roky Erickson
Rooney
Sean Ono Lennon
Sebadoh
Shakey Graves
Shovels & Rope
Silver Jews
Smith Westerns
Sondre Lerche
Soulive
St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Strand of Oaks
Superchunk
Shim Sham Club
October 31, 2001
Surfer Blood
Swans
T-Model Ford
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Telefon Tel Aviv
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
The Afghan Whigs
Shim Sham Club
– September 3 & 4, 1999
The Album Leaf
The Appleseed Cast
The Bad Plus
The Blow
The Civil Wars
The Crooked Vines
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Donnas
The Drums
The Felice Brothers
The Front Bottoms
The Get Up Kids
The Head and the Heart
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
The Juan Maclean
The Lemonheads
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Revivalists
The Vaselines
The Walkmen
The War on Drugs
Tilly and the Wall
Titus Andronicus
Toro y Moi
Tune-Yards
Ty Segall
Tycho
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Vic Chesnutt
Washed Out
Waxahatchee
White Denim
WHY?
Wild Flag
Wye Oak
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Xiu Xiu
YACHT
Zola Jesus
