A rare evening with multi-talented John Moore will kick off the fall season at the Dew Drop Social & Benevolent Jazz Hall Sept. 24 in Historic Old Mandeville.

An Evening With Deacon John from 6:30-9:30 p.m. is the first of four events planned through mid-December by the Friends of the Dew Drop, a non-profit all volunteer group preserving and protecting the historic Lamarque Street building in cooperation with the City of Mandeville which owns the property. Admission to the Deacon John concert featuring his big band will be $10, and tickets will be sold only at the door. Tickets can also be purchased online through PayPal by visiting dewdropjazzhall.com.

This will mark the first Friday night event in recent times at the Dew Drop, which was built in 1895 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The fall schedule for the fourth season at the Dew Drop will continue Oct. 23, with performances by Tuba Skinny, a popular French Quarter street band specializing in classic jazz and blues from the 1920s and 30s from 3-4 p.m. and Big Daddy O, acclaimed for mastery of jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and soul, from 4-6 p.m.

Poplar New Orleans smooth jazz singer Anais St. John will headline a concert on Nov. 22, from 4-6 p.m. with an opening set by Amp’d, a nine-piece band consisting of students from Mandeville High School, Fontainebleau High School and Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, from 3-4 p.m.

The fall schedule will end Dec. 18, with the Dew Drop’s annual candlelight Christmas show  this year featuring the Dynamic Smooth Family gospel singers from Slidell from 3-4 p.m. followed by contemporary jazz singer Tijonne Reyes of Slidell from 4-6 p.m.

Tickets to all these events will be $10 and sold only at the door or through the Dew Drop Web site.

Deacon John has been inducted in the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. He last appeared in Mandeville several years ago at the Trailhead Cultural Interpretive Center with a big band following the 2003 release of his critically acclaimed CD and DVD called Deacon John’s Jump Blues.