This weekend marks five years for our soulful stomping ground, drinking domain and neighborhood nucleus all-in-one.
Reveler’s Hall is going to celebrate in the way it knows best: jazz. Though unfortunately missing an alliterative companion, jazz has been the nature of ‘Revs’ since its opening in March 2019.
“Everyone was telling me not to start a jazz club,” owner Jason Roberts says with a laugh. “Horrible idea.”
Roberts didn’t listen. The Oddfellows owner has spent his last 30 years in Oak Cliff, opening Revs with Amy Wallace Cowan and Corey McCombs as a local outlet to New Orleans-style parties.
“We weren’t restauranteurs,” he says. “We just liked to throw parties.”
Now 5-years-old, it’s time to throw yet another party. In fact, this one’s special, so they’re throwing two.
Night one will be Friday, March 8, taking place just down the street at the Kessler Theater, where the in-house Reveler’s Hall Band will record their first live album. The show starts up at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale for $20.
Night two is a marathon. Starting up Saturday, March 9 at 2 p.m., Reveler’s Hall will have twelve consecutive hours of nonstop music and partying. The Reveler’s Hall Band will play from 2-5, followed by Bishop Ave Hot 6 from 5-8.
Into the evening, local cumbia legends Sabor Puro will dance the night away from 8-12, until DJ Dezi 5 keeps the party going until 2 a.m. The night will also feature special appearances from Terraplane Rounders, Terence Bradford and Shelley Carrol, who was previously covered by the Advocate and plays at Revs every Wednesday night.
A house band recording their first live album and a collection of performers putting on a twelve-hour party walk into a bar. What do they say?
“We’re home.”
Their home is Reveler’s Hall. This weekend, it’s ours too.
