The entryway to beloved New Orleans, LA live music venue, bar, and restaurant The Howlin’ Wolf was left in rubble early Sunday morning when a car drove off the road at the corner of S Peters Street and N Diamond Street and crashed into the building at 907 S Peters.

A Sunday post on the official social media for The Howlin’ Wolf maintained a sense of humor about the incident, writing alongside photos of the wreckage, “We told him we don’t have a drive thru, but some people don’t listen.”

“All kidding aside,” the post added, “thank god no one was seriously hurt. Anyone know a good contractor? Might be time to renovate.”

As The Howlin’ Wolf owner Howie Kaplan told Live For Live Music by phone on Monday morning, the crash took place around 2:00 a.m. on Sunday morning when an SUV driving on N Diamond ran a stop sign and t-boned another car passing through the intersection before careening into the front of the building.

“I got the call at 2:00 a.m.,” Kaplan explained. “I was home. I’d been there all day. We’d had a School of Rock show earlier in the day. We do those a couple of times a year and they’re always a lot of fun. So it was a really long day. I’d left about an hour earlier and the bartender called me up and she’s like, ‘… a car hit the building.’ And I’m like, ‘Is everybody okay?’ And she’s like, yeah, everybody’s okay. And I’m like, in the future something happens, the first words out of your mouth need to be ‘everyone is okay.'”

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The impacted area outside The Howlin’ Wolf is often full of people during events. Luckily, the venue’s Saturday evening event had already moved to the property’s smaller room, the Den, so the space was empty when the crash took place.

Although the wreckage looks shocking, nobody was seriously injured in the crash. “There was a young lady who was a passenger,” Kaplan explained. “She was taken to the hospital, but we found out that she is fine and that’s good news. The seatbelt did its job. [But] I mean, you have to be going pretty [fast]. That was three feet of brick [that they crashed through].”

On a positive note for The Howlin’ Wolf, the damage from the crash was contained to the building’s front entryway and did not impact either of its venue spaces or its bar area. The venue will not have to cancel any of its upcoming events as operators go through the insurance claims process and eye the necessary renovations in the Wolf’s future.

“It’s summertime in New Orleans,” Kaplan added. “It’s already slow. So to now have to deal with this, it’s a challenge. But I consider ourselves very blessed. Coming up in October it’ll be 25 years that I’ve had the Wolf. This is a way to kind of start some of that [milestone]—’Hey, we get to do a little rebuilding as part of it.’ … We’ve been working on a lot of upgrades anyway. We’re doing a lot of painting, carpeting. Our green room is totally redone. So, this is kind of in tune with that.”

The local music community has already started to show its support for The Howlin’ Wolf since the crash. As Kaplan explained, “We do the Hot 8 Brass Band every Sunday. It’s summertime and the heat and everything… so that show’s usually not [too crowded]. And a bunch of folks showed up [last night] to say, ‘We want to support you.’ And that was very endearing.”

We at Live For Live Music have a special place in our hearts for The Howlin’ Wolf, where we’ve helped produce countless late-night shows, super-jams, and one-of-a-kind live music moments as part of our annual Fest by Nite series during New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Here’s to rebuilding better than ever!

View photos of the car crash at The Howlin’ Wolf in New Orleans below via Howie Kaplan. View a list of upcoming events at the venue here.