This article is about the Washington D.C. venue. For other topics, see bayou (disambiguation).
The Bayou
Address
3135 K Street, Georgetown, Washington DC.
Location
Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Capacity
900
Opened
September 1953
Closed
1999
The Bayou was a music venue and nightclub located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.[1][2] The club occupied an old building at 3135 K Street, NW, in Georgetown, under the Whitehurst Freeway for forty-six years. The club opened in September 1953 on the site of a former Dixieland nightclub called The Pirates Den which featured Dixieland jazz until the early 1960s when the format changed to rock and roll. Performers included Count Basie and Woody Herman.[3]
The club included a balcony level, with tables and chairs, and two standing room only bars.[4] The main floor bars were fed bottled liquor from a "tap" room that was situated above the entrance. Bottles placed upside down into funnels feeding long tubing led to the downstairs bars. The Bayou backed up to another famed D.C. music institution, Blues Alley, located down the alley behind the Bayou.[5]
^Butters, Patrick (December 30, 1998). "Bye-bye Bayou: Georgetown nightclub closes door tomorrow night after the last jam". The Washington Times.
^Harrington, Richard (December 30, 1998). "LAST CALL AT THE BAYOU". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
^"'The Bayou' Documents Legendary Georgetown Nightclub". February 25, 2013.
^"Music returns to The Bayou, one night only". WTOP News. February 1, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
^"Let the Good Times Roll Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
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