A Night at Café Society

Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club

Friday, November 11, 2022, 8:00 PM

A Night at Café Society
Fri, Nov 11, 8 p.m.
Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club

From ’40s NYC to today’s DMV: Step back in time for a classic Harlem supper club experience!

Part of our two-season tribute to Hazel Scott, A Night at Café Society evokes the atmosphere of the Greenwich Village and Upper East Side nightspot of the 1930s and ’40s—the first racially integrated nightclub in America—where Ms. Scott held court along with the likes of Count Basie, Lena Horne, Django Reinhardt, Billie Holiday, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Zero Mostel, and other legendary performers. Set in the classic Art Deco ambience of the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, the evening will combine performances by Sheléa, Etienne Charles, Nova Y. Payton, Damien Sneed, Justin Trawick, Tony Walker, and host Mark Gregory, with historically inspired narrative, and more.

Seating Note: Table-seated patron are subject to the venue’s $20 food and beverage minimum per person, which is not included in the Washington Performing Arts ticket price.

Our Partners

Washington Performing Arts’s Hazel Scott 102nd Birthday Celebration is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Lydia Micheaux Marshall, Dr. Gary Mather and Ms. Christina Co Mather, Barbara Myers and Tom Gallagher, Adam Clayton Powell III and Irene M. Solet, and Jenny Bilfield and Joel Phillip Friedman.

Special thanks to the following lead supporters of Washington Performing Arts’s mission-driven work: Jacqueline Badger Mars and Mars, Incorporated; D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; and the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts.