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Welcome to the History Of Mississippi Nights web site.
We started this site to bring people who are fans of the historic Mississippi Nights venue together and to provide more information about the Mississippi Nightss history. Feel free to look around, if you have information about Mississippi Nights you would like to add, you can email it to us and we will try and get it on the site.
There is still the possibility that the Mississippi Nights will be reopened. That is all that we can say at this time. So we are also using this site as a place to gain momentum for what we feel was the coolest live music club in STL.
Short video clip of the last night Mississippi Nights was open.
Swing Stomp
Mississippi Nights
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mississippi Nights was a music club in St. Louis, Missouri, that achieved national recognition for the number of big-name acts and performers the venue hosted.
The club was located at 914 N 1st Street, on the western bank of the Mississippi River, four blocks up from the St. Louis Gateway Arch in historic Laclede’s Landing in downtown St. Louis. One reviewer called it a “huge warehouse-like space” which “walks the line that separates ‘music club’ and ‘concert venue.’”
Concerts at the venue, which held up to 1,000 people, were usually ‘all ages’ events. About one in 90 shows were restricted to people of the age of 21 or greater (the drinking age for alcoholic beverages in Missouri) or above.
A Citysearch review said the club’s management “has consistently shown a keen eye for booking bands whose star is on the rise.”
The club is the subject of one of They Might Be Giants Venue Songs.
In early 2003, rumors began circulating that the club would close to make way for a new Casino development. The rumors were confirmed in early 2007, and the last show was held on January 19, 2007 and the last band to play on its stage was The Urge fronted by a band member of one of the bands that played that night.
The owners are currently looking into the possibility of re-opening in a new location.