Calgary, AB

The Dog & Duck Public House

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The Dog & Duck Public House is a live-music venue in Calgary, Alberta. British-style Calgary pub with a longstanding Friday live-music program featuring local bands. Long-running pub known for local-band Fridays and a traditional neighborhood-pub atmosphere. The venue supports live-band performance, giving working groups a clear basis for evaluating the room. Programming includes Rock, blues, folk, local bands, pub music. Age access is 21+. The venue is located at 5340 2 St SW, Calgary, AB T2H 0G7. For musicians evaluating a date, the established programming is the clearest guide to whether a set, instrumentation, and audience profile will fit the room. Artists can compare their sound and show scale with the venue’s existing live-music format before pursuing a date. Bands and solo performers can use the genre mix, audience setting, and performance style as practical signals when building a routing plan. For working musicians, that established performance pattern also provides useful context for deciding how much production, stage footprint, and preparation a show may require. The venue’s live-use pattern makes it a practical lead for suitable performers.

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Age policy
21+
Genres
Blues, Folk, Rock
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5340 2 St SW, Calgary, AB T2H 0G7, Canada
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403-253-2489
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