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Nightclub and concert venue in Washington, D. C.

The club was originally housed in the ground floor rear room of the Atlantic Building at 930 F Street NW, in the city's downtown area, where it opened on May 31, 1980, with a legal standing capacity of 199. In 1996, the club was moved to a roomier space: its current location at 815 V Street NW, Early advertising on D. C.'s WHFS radio featured the slogan "9:30 – a Place and Time!" The club has a distinctive wheeled stage mounted on rails, which can be moved back and forth as needed. This way, the place can feel as packed with 500 people in attendance as it would during a sold out, full capacity show. Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump once said of the 9:30, "it's got so much character, you wonder if the locals know how lucky they are."

Nightclub 9:30 was founded by artist and dancer Dody DiSanto and her husband, Jon Bowers, a local real estate developer and music enthusiast who had just purchased the Atlantic Building in 1979. The Atlantic Building was full of artists even before it became the 9:30 club. The venue hosted its first show on May 31, 1980, New York's The Fleshtones were the first band ever to be booked at the club. Since its origins, Nightclub 9:30, which allowed fans as young as sixteen to enter, was known as a progressive venue noted for its talent in discovering up and coming acts. During the early 1980s, it was the home for alternative music in D. C., and Dain Bramage, whose teenage drummer, Dave Grohl, went on to become part of Nirvana and to found the Foo Fighters. James Blood Ulmer played there in 1982. However, in a very short time, the venue also became a regular stopping point for punk and new wave bands touring the East Coast. Some of the most notable performers in the early days of Nightclub 9:30 were Black Flag, the Bad Brains from D. C. (also played there in '92), the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Psychedelic Furs, Einstürzende Neubauten, the Ramones, X, Blue Angel (with lead singer Cyndi Lauper), the Bangles, R. E. M., Hüsker Dü, Erasure, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, the Violent Femmes, the Butthole Surfers, That Petrol Emotion, the Replacements, Marti Jones, Marshall Crenshaw, Mod Fun, The Dancing Cigarettes, Nash the Slash, the Go Go's, and BETTY, whose bassist and co vocalist, Alyson Palmer, tended bar in the club at the time. On May 21, 1981, Washington music programmer and writer Tom Terrell was instrumental in masterminding the U. S. premiere of reggae band Steel Pulse on the night of Bob Marley's funeral, which was broadcast live worldwide from Nightclub 9:30. In 1986, after six years of operating the club, Bowers and DiSanto sold it to Seth Hurwitz and Richard Heinecke of It's My Party (I. M. P.), the Maryland based concert promotion company they co own. Over the following years, as the club's prominence and lineup were growing, the need for a bigger space was becoming increasingly evident. In preparation for the move, the owners purchased and extensively renovated the former WUST Radio Music Hall at 815 V Street. The old Nightclub 9:30 closed its doors on December 31, 1995. In the opening ceremony, the Mayor of D. C. designated May 30th as "9:30 Club Day".

Before the reopening, the club owners organized a "christening" show for media and friends featuring the Fleshtones and Too Much Joy. On January 5, 1996, the new 9:30 Club opened to the public with a show that included the Smashing Pumpkins.

The 9:30 Club was mentioned in the Gilmore Girls final season when Lane books a gig with her band Hep Alien. In Designated Survivor, Aaron invites Emily to a date at the 9:30 Club. While filming A. P. Bio, comedian Patton Oswalt ad libbed a rant about ska music featuring a story about the 9:30 Club, The Pietasters, No Doubt, Madness and more.

During the band Cake's two night run on May 30 and 31, 2009 (the club's 29th birthday), the 9:30 Club introduced the official 9:30 Cupcake, made by Buzz Bakeshop of Alexandria, Virginia. The 9:30 Cupcake is a devil's food cupcake with a buttercream center, chocolate frosting, and chocolate ganache, with the club's italicized “9:30” logo on the top in white icing. The cupcakes are now made fresh by the bakery, delivered to the club each morning, and are available for fans as well as musicians.

Built for the 35th Anniversary "World's Fair" events and left as a growing monument to the club's history, the new Hall of Records documents every headlining performance to occur at the 9:30 Club since its inception in 1980. Catalogued in album form, the collection includes nearly 8,000 vinyl and CDs.

Accompanying the World's Fair was the release of the "9:30 – A Time and A Place" oral and pictorial history book, featuring 265 pages of behind the scenes photographs stories from the venue's past told by staff and artists, including Public Enemy's Chuck D and Sarah McLachlan.

In February 2016, it was announced that the 9:30 Club had partnered with Squarespace, Shinola, and Destination DC to produce a new musically centered variety show for PBS, featuring five acts per episode alongside a variety of comedy and short films. Artists include: Garbage, The Arcs, Tove Lo, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Grace Potter, Trouble Funk, Troye Sivan, Frank Turner, Cold War Kids, and many more. Live at 9:30 debuted in May, with a mix of contributors and hosts including Henry Rollins, NPR Music's Bob Boilen, Hannibal Buress, Jill Kargman, Ralphie May and Tony Rock. While episodes are airing across the country, they are also available on www. liveat930. com.

The 9:30 Club has been awarded "Nightclub of the Year" by Pollstar 13 times (more than any other club in Pollstar's history), including 5 years in a row from 2012 to 2016. For much of that time, it has regularly topped that concert industry trade journal's annual list of the top ticket selling clubs in the United States. The venue won the Top Club awards at the 2007 through 2012 Billboard Touring Awards, except in 2008, when the award was not presented. Touring artists and managers in conjunction with Rolling Stone rated the club the No. 1 Big Room in America. In 2019, VenuesNow named the 9:30 Club "Venue of the Decade."