A 21+ blues dance party featuring Johnny Nicholas & the Hidden Charms at The Continental Club, with doors opening at 6pm.
Johnny Nicholas & the Hidden Charms are taking over The Continental Club on Monday, July 27, for a Jimmy Reed dance party. It's a 21+ night, so bring your ID.
Johnny Nicholas hails from Cherry Spring, Texas, and has spent his career playing and rambling with some of the most original and artistically powerful figures of the American 20th century. The list reads like a history of the blues: Big Walter Horton, Mississippi Fred Macdowell, Koko Taylor, Jimmie Vaughan, Nathan Abshire, Houston Stackhouse, Carol Fran, Lightnin Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup, BB King, Bonnie Raitt, S.P. Leary, Marcia Ball, Lazy Lester, Snooky Pryor, Robert Jr. Lockwood, and Johnny Shines. That's a lot of ground covered—from the Delta and Chicago to the Texas and Louisiana traditions—and it's the kind of deep-rooted blues that a dance party like this is built on.
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As for the venue, The Continental Club is one of Austin's best honky-tonk dance halls, right up there with the Broken Spoke, White Horse, Sagebrush, and Sam's Town Point. If you're coming for the dancing, you're in the right place. The music starts at 6:30 PM, and there's no cover charge, so it's an easy one to drop into on a Monday night. Doors open at 6 PM, and since it's 21+, you'll want to have your ID ready when you walk in.
