The story
The only continuously operating all-Black-owned music venue in America was segregation's silver lining—and ironically became the first Buffalo club to allow integrated audiences.
Everything that was here
- 1935–present · still open
Colored Musicians ClubJazz Club
The only continuously operating all-Black-owned music venue in America was segregation's silver lining—and ironically became the first Buffalo club to allow integrated audiences.
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