Live-music venues worth the trip in Mandeville, Louisiana

The Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall is an unpainted wooden hall on Lamarque Street in Old Mandeville, and its own site says it “is now considered the world’s oldest virtually unaltered rural jazz dance hall.” The hall hosts traditional jazz concerts in its spring and fall seasons.

Ruby’s Roadhouse is a long-running roadhouse bar on Lamarque Street in Mandeville, and its own site says “Ruby’s Roadhouse is where live music lives.”