Bankers Hall — Downtown commercial complex hosting Brookfield arts-and-events programming and live performances. Bookings skew toward Jazz, pop, acoustic, original music, covers, which gives performers a clear read on the audience. Capacity is 1000. It is an all-ages room, which broadens the potential audience beyond the usual bar crowd. For musicians, the appeal is a venue with an established reason for live music rather than a room simply experimenting with it.
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Calgary cocktail lounge with recurring live jazz and vocal performances. Intimate Calgary lounge with recurring jazz performers and bands. From a performer’s standpoint, the venue is set up around recurring live jazz singers and bands in an intimate lounge setting. The music mix includes Jazz, Swing, Soul, Vocal jazz, which helps define the kinds of performers already represented in the venue’s programming. For working musicians, that established live-use pattern makes the venue easier to evaluate in terms of format, audience setting, and show style. Prohibition Lounge is located at Unit 30, 720 17 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2S 0B7. Age access is event-dependent. Musicians considering the venue can use its existing programming and performance format as the main guide when deciding whether their set, instrumentation, and audience expectations are a good match. Its ongoing connection to live performance also gives artists a stronger basis for judging the room than they would have with a venue used only sporadically for music.
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- Talent Buyer
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prohibitionyyc@gmail.comMember booking tools
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- Age policy
- 21+
- Genres
- Jazz, Soul, Swing
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- Unit 30, 720 17 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2S 0B7, Canada
- Venue phone
- 825-734-1920
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