Best Live Music Venues in DC
9:30 Club to Blues Alley — the room matters.
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FreeKennedy Center Millennium Stage
Free, world-class performances every day at 6 p.m.
$$The 9:30 Club
Rolling Stone called it the #1 big club in America. They were right.
Angels Rock Bar
A rock-and-roll bar inside Power Plant Live built for loud weekends.
$$$Blues Alley
Oldest continuously operating jazz club in the country. Intimate, excellent.
DC9 Nightclub
A compact independent club where the calendar does the talking.
District Pier at The Wharf
Free live concerts on the Potomac all summer.
Eighteenth Street Lounge (ESL Shaw)
The reborn ESL brings its DJ-and-lounge pedigree to Shaw.
Fish Head Cantina
A sprawling cantina where food, drinks, and live entertainment share the bill.
Georgetown Piano Bar
Request-driven piano singalongs that turn strangers into a chorus.
Little Miss Whiskey's Golden Dollar
A weird, colorful H Street bar with DJs and a fiercely alternative streak.
$$Madam's Organ
Three floors of live music, pool, and Americana chaos.
Nationals Park
Nats, half-smokes from Chesapeake, skyline views from the upper deck.
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