On the Stage
Live Music,
Every Week.
Jazz, R&B, Latin, and late-night sessions — anchored by Fridays.
See What’s OnJazz, R&B, Latin, and late-night sessions — anchored by Fridays.
See What’s OnJazz, R&B, Latin, and late-night sessions — anchored by Fridays.
Come hear a smooth, soulful, symphony of sounds as SaxFifth sweetly serenades the room with sweaty, sultry songs of pass
Almost everything you’ll hear at Dabney traces to one source — the genius of Black musicians who turned hardship into the sound of the modern world. These are the roots we play from.
Rhythm, the drum, and call-and-response — carried across the Middle Passage and never lost.
Sorrow songs and field hollers — the first American music born of Black life.
The Delta taproot. Nearly every American popular form grows from its twelve bars and bent notes.
New Orleans improvisation — the closest thing America has to a classical music.
The Black church gave soul its fervor — and rock its first electric guitar.
West African clave meets jazz horns — mambo, salsa, and Latin jazz cross every border.
Built from blues and gospel — the godmother plugged in before anyone named it.
Gospel feeling on a secular stage — the music that scored the movement.
Rhythm became the melody, all on “the one” — and the dancefloor was born.
Two turntables and a microphone — a new global language, straight out of the Bronx.
Black Chicago and Detroit built the future of dance music — and the world still moves to it.
Portraits via Wikimedia Commons. James Brown © John Mathew Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0); DJ Kool Herc © Richard Alexander Caraballo (CC BY 3.0); Frankie Knuckles © HaeB (CC BY-SA 4.0). All others public domain.
Live music every week — jazz, soul, R&B & Latin, plus pop-ups and after-dark sets.
344 N Rose St, Kalamazoo, MI 49007
Tue–Thu 4pm – 10pm • Fri–Sat 4pm – 12:30am • Sun–Mon Closed