Gravois Park

A neighborhood in St. Louis

Gravois Park anchors its live-music life along the Cherokee Street corridor, a stretch that holds two venues with very different personalities and two others for which specific booking details are harder to pin down. Casa Loma Ballroom, at 3354 Iowa Avenue, is a historic dance hall built in 1927 and renamed in 1935. Historically a "working-class" ballroom, it broadcast Mutual and CBS big band remotes nationally in the 1940s. Bandleaders including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, and Harry James (with Frank Sinatra in 1939) all played the room. Today, it hosts swing, big band, jazz, and rock and roll, with dance lessons in waltz, fox trot, tango, Latin, and swing often taking place before the live music begins. A 16-to-24-piece orchestra plays Friday nights, with oldies dancing on Saturdays. Down Cherokee, El Leñador, Spanish for "the woodcutter," started as a banquet hall for the Latin community in 2005 before evolving into a music venue serving rock and roll. The room is a former German restaurant turned Mexican restaurant turned 70s wood-paneled rec room that hosts some of the most experimental music shows in town in an intimate setting. Yaquis on Cherokee and 'ssippi are also listed as live-music spots in the neighborhood, but specific, verifiable details on their programming were not available in the sources found.

Venues4

Casa Loma Ballroom3354 Iowa Ave, St. Louis
El Leñador Bar & Lounge3124 Cherokee St, St. Louis
'ssippi2926 Cherokee St, St. Louis
Yaquis on Cherokee2728 Cherokee St, St. Louis

Gravois Park

Venues4

Upcoming shows162

Today · Monday, July 20 · 1 show

Luisa Sims

Tomorrow · Tuesday, July 21 · 1 show

Ethan Leinwand

Wednesday, July 22 · 1 show

Joe Park Trio

Thursday, July 23 · 1 show

Gaslight Squares

Friday, July 24 · 1 show

Sam Golden

Saturday, July 25 · 1 show

Dave Stone

Sunday, July 26 · 1 show

Sharon Bear & Eric McSpadden

Monday, July 27 · 1 show

Kevin Buckley

Tuesday, July 28 · 1 show

Ethan Leinwand

Wednesday, July 29 · 1 show

Joe Park Trio

Thursday, July 30 · 1 show

Gaslight Squares

Friday, July 31 · 1 show

Drew Weiss

Saturday, August 1 · 1 show

Luisa Sims

Sunday, August 2 · 1 show

Irene Allen

Monday, August 3 · 1 show

Suzi Gilb

Tuesday, August 4 · 1 show

Ethan Leinwand

Wednesday, August 5 · 1 show

Joe Park Trio

Thursday, August 6 · 1 show

Gaslight Squares

Friday, August 7 · 1 show

Abbey Waterworth

Saturday, August 8 · 1 show

Maxwell Landry

Sunday, August 9 · 1 show

Irene Allen

Monday, August 10 · 1 show

Kevin Buckley

Tuesday, August 11 · 1 show

Ethan Leinwand

Wednesday, August 12 · 1 show

Joe Park Trio

Thursday, August 13 · 1 show

Gaslight Squares

Friday, August 14 · 1 show

The Good Den Duo

Saturday, August 15 · 1 show

Sins of the Pioneers

Sunday, August 16 · 1 show

Irene Allen

Monday, August 17 · 1 show

Luisa Sims

Tuesday, August 18 · 1 show

Ethan Leinwand

Wednesday, August 19 · 1 show

Joe Park Trio

Thursday, August 20 · 1 show

Gaslight Squares

Friday, August 21 · 1 show

The Goldenrods

Saturday, August 22 · 1 show

Dave Stone

Sunday, August 23 · 1 show

Irene Allen

Monday, August 24 · 1 show

Kevin Buckley

Tuesday, August 25 · 1 show

Ethan Leinwand

Wednesday, August 26 · 1 show

Joe Park Trio

Thursday, August 27 · 1 show