Chickie Wah Wah is an intimate music bar at 2828 Canal Street in Mid-City, presenting local and touring artists in a room built for attentive listening. The name comes from the 1956 Bobby Marchan single “Chickie Wah Wah,” written by Huey “Piano” Smith.
The room is deliberately intimate — low stage, close tables, good sound — and the club books a mix of local heroes and carefully selected touring acts who fit the room's sensibility.