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New Orleans-style jazz tribute to Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, led by trombonist Rengen with vocalist Song.
Walking Down Basin Street presents the music of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald as an evening of New Orleans-inspired jazz. The band is led by trombonist Rengen and features vocalist Song with Velvet Wharf Shanghai. Named numbers include L-O-V-E, Cheek to Cheek, Basin Street Blues and When the Saints Go Marching In. The organiser has not published a running time, an interval, a support act or a full set list, and no language or minimum age is listed.
Two prices are published: 188rmb in presale and 208rmb on the door, both including one drink. The date on which presale closes and door pricing begins has not been announced, so if the lower price matters, treat it as open-ended rather than guaranteed on the day. There is no separate registration or guest-list step mentioned; the ticket is the entry.
On the access questions that usually decide things for visitors, the listing is silent, and we would rather say so than guess. It does not state whether a Chinese mobile number is needed to complete a booking, whether real-name registration or passport details are required, which payment methods are accepted, or whether foreign cards work. Nothing on the page says foreign buyers are excluded, but nothing confirms the flow works end to end for someone without a domestic account either.
What is stated: the tickets are official and authorised by The Pearl, at the same price as the venue and local sites, and English-language support is offered. Checkout can be completed on desktop, or continued on a phone by scanning a code into either the SmartShanghai app or WeChat — the page presents these as options rather than saying WeChat is compulsory. Support runs through ticketing@smartshanghai.com or a WeChat support channel, and the email route is the one that needs no Chinese platform account. Accessibility provision is listed as unspecified.
The Pearl, 471 Zhapu Lu near Wujin Lu, in Hongkou District — 乍浦路471号, 近武进路. The listing places the venue five minutes from North Sichuan Rd, without stating on foot or by what means. Both Google Maps and Gaode Maps links are provided, along with a printable address card for taxi drivers, which is the more reliable option if you are arriving without a working local mapping app.
This entry was compiled automatically from the organiser's own page and every date in it was checked back against that page before publishing. Nobody from our team has been to this one, and we have not called the organisers — where they have not published something, this page says so rather than filling the gap.
Status: Organizer not stated in text; Chinese event name not given. Duration, language, age and accessibility listed as '-' on the page. Ticketing via SmartShanghai official tickets authorized by The Pearl: 188rmb presale, 208rmb at door, includes 1 drink; doors 6pm, concert 7pm. Region inferred as Shanghai municipality from the venue address district (Hongkou). Source: the organiser's own page, fetched and verified on 2026-08-26 (https://www.smartshanghai.com/event/walking-down-basin-street-a-new-orleans-jazz-tribute-2026-09-05) · checked 2026-08-26