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Union Street in Plymouth, Devon, is a long straight street connecting the city centre to Devonport, the site of Plymouth's naval base and docks. Originally the home of wealthy people, it later became an infamous red-light district and the location of most of the city's night-life.
A folk club is a regular event, permanent venue, or section of a venue devoted to folk music and traditional music.Folk clubs were primarily an urban phenomenon of 1960s and 1970s Great Britain and Ireland, and vital to the second British folk revival, but continue today there and elsewhere.
The 1960s began with soul music topping the charts, including pure soul divas and singers specializing in the new, rhythm and blues-gospel music fusion with a secular approach. Later specialties in soul cropped up, including girl groups, blue-eyed soul , brown-eyed soul , Memphis soul , Philly soul and, most popular, Motown .
Many records on the Blue Beat label were played alongside soul music in dance clubs such as the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. In addition to appealing greatly to the West Indian community in the UK, the music became associated with the British mods of the early to mid-1960s, as well as the skinheads of the late 1960s. In the late 1960s and early ...
Entitled Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979, the book highlights the influence of Mancuso's late 1960s and early 1970s Loft parties on every major figure in the New York dance music scene, including Robert Williams, the founder of Chicago's Warehouse and Muzic Box; Frankie Knuckles, the DJ at the ...
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay [1]: 5 ; Black Cat, Tenderloin, San Francisco [1]: 5 Black Hawk, Tenderloin, San Francisco [4]; Great American Music Hall, Tenderloin, San Francisco
A jazz club is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live jazz music. Jazz clubs are usually a type of nightclub or bar, which is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages. Jazz clubs were in large rooms in the eras of Orchestral jazz and big band jazz, when bands were large and often augmented by a string section.
Beginning in the 1960s, the building was known as the Jernee Mill Inn, a local bar with a banquet hall. It was originally known as the Hunka Bunka Ballroom [1] and then Willy's [2] [3] in the 1980s. It has operated as a dance music club but more often hosted concerts with primarily metal, punk and ska lineups.