New Orleans · Louisiana
Find Musicians in New Orleans, LA
New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz and one of the most musical cities on earth: brass bands, Frenchmen Street, the Treme, a second-line tradition that never stops. Music isn't a scene here, it's the air. Bandry connects the players who make it, local-first.
Why Bandry
Built for finding people locally.
Local, not regional
Radius-filtered means you see people who can actually make it to your rehearsal, not someone hours away.
The full music chain
Studios, mixing engineers, photographers, videographers, designers. Everything to take a project from rehearsal to release.
Direct contact, always
No in-app messaging to babysit. Link up, and they reach out to you directly. Off-platform, on your terms.
The scene
New Orleans has the depth.
Where jazz was born
The tradition runs from Congo Square to the brass bands playing tonight. Bandry's role posts find the horn players, drummers, and singers carrying it.
Brass, funk, and bounce
New Orleans funk, the brass-band tradition, and bounce all live side by side. Whatever you play, role-based posts find your people.
A working musician's city
About as many gigging musicians per capita as anywhere. The bulletin helps you find them; the Resources tab maps the rooms.
On the ground
Where New Orleans plays.
A quick map of the New Orleans scene: the indie-reachable rooms and the shops that keep it running. Bandry connects you to the players who fill them, and the Resources tab pins the rest near you.
Venues worth knowing
Tipitina's
Uptown institution at Napoleon and Tchoupitoulas, funk, brass and touring acts in a beloved mid-size hall.
The Maple Leaf Bar
Uptown on Oak Street, one of the city's oldest live rooms, Rebirth Brass Band every Tuesday, small and sweaty.
Preservation Hall
French Quarter shrine to traditional New Orleans jazz since 1961, an intimate bench-seat room with nightly all-ages sets.
Snug Harbor
Frenchmen Street in the Marigny, the city's premier modern-jazz listening room, an intimate brick space with two nightly sets.
d.b.a.
Frenchmen Street stalwart, brass, funk and trad acts nightly, a longtime musicians' favorite with a deep bar.
The Howlin' Wolf
Warehouse District converted warehouse, a roughly 600-plus-cap hall for rock, hip-hop and brass plus the smaller Den room.
Gasa Gasa
Uptown on Freret Street, an indie and alt-rock club reopened in 2025, a small art-filled room for local and touring bands.
Record stores, studios and rehearsal
Louisiana Music Factory
Record store. On Frenchmen Street, the definitive New Orleans shop for local and regional vinyl, with regular in-stores.
Euclid Records
Record store. A Bywater shop on Chartres, two floors of new and used vinyl plus in-store performances, a locals' favorite.
Esplanade Studios
Recording studio. Treme, a restored 1920s church with a Neve console and large tracking room, used for music, film and scoring.
The Peculiar Note
Gear shop. A Marigny shop on Elysian Fields selling guitars, brass and woodwinds with in-house repairs and lessons.
Spreading The Music
Rehearsal. An Uptown school renting furnished hourly rehearsal rooms with backline, band practice from around ten dollars an hour.
A starting map of the local scene, not a directory or an endorsement. Rooms and shops change, the people you meet on Bandry are how you stay current.
Who's on Bandry in New Orleans
Every role in one place.
Find your people
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Resources tab
The places, not just the people.
Beyond the bulletin, Bandry's Resources tab pulls in nearby studios, rehearsal spaces, venues, repair shops, and music stores from Apple Maps. Everything you need to actually make the record, all in one app.
Looking for a specific place? Recording studios, rehearsal space, music stores, instrument repair, music venues, or vinyl pressing near you.
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Finding musicians in New Orleans
How do I find musicians in New Orleans?
Post what you're looking for on Bandry's New Orleans bulletin and set your reach to local. Musicians within your radius see it, and when someone's interested they link up, sharing their contact info so you can reach out directly and take it off-platform. No DMs and no inbox to manage.
Is Bandry free to use in New Orleans?
Reading the New Orleans bulletin and endorsing posts are free forever. Posting your own ad and linking up run on a subscription, $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year, after a 14-day free trial of everything. Bandry never takes a cut of any gig or arrangement you work out.
What kinds of musicians and pros are on Bandry in New Orleans?
All of them: drummers, guitarists, bassists, singers, and keyboard players, plus producers, mixing and mastering engineers, photographers, videographers, designers, and studios. New Orleans's scene runs deep, and role-based posts cover the whole chain from forming a band to finishing a record.
How close are the New Orleans musicians Bandry shows me?
As close as you set. Bandry's local posts are radius-gated on both sides, so you only see people who can realistically make it to a rehearsal or session, whether that's across New Orleans or out into the rest of Louisiana.