Shamrock Club

Status: Closed

Parish: Calcasieu

Location: Lake Charles

Mentioned in “Louisiana Fiddlers”: “Milton Vanicor recalls that, while he was playing with Iry Lejeune, many times Nathan Abshire and Dewey, after playing at Jones Bar north of Lake Charles, would come to the Shamrock Club in north Lake Charles and play until 1:00 a.m. The two groups would join in a jam session everyone enjoyed.” also “Around 1965 Jo-El Sonnier moved to Lake Charles from his Acadia Parish home and played with Robert Bertrand and the Louisiana Ramblers. They played the Shamrock Club, the hotspot at the time, as well as other local clubs.”

Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: Shamrock Club, Lake Charles, L-R, Larry Miller, “Cat” Deshotels, Nathan Abshire, Thomas Langley, Jr. Benoit, 1966, Courtesy Johnnie Allan.

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Photo Credit: Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.