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The Dame
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Sadly, we are now closed, but the music lives on!



LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
United States

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Member Since12/28/2004
Band Websitewww.dameky.com
Band MembersATTENTION ARTISTS!!! Please Read Before Sending a Message!
While The Dame is now closed, it's Talent Buyer, Nick Sprouse has launched Sprouse House Productions to continue bringing the finest in original live music to Lexington.

For booking inquiries and availabilities, please send an email to Nick Sprouse - dameonmain@yahoo.com. You do not need to send any press kits or demos; simply a link to MP3s or an EPK will be more than sufficient. Please DO NOT send messages to this myspace page.

MySpace has no real way of organizing messages like email does, so those messages tend to get lost in the large volume of mail we receive. Hence, if you want to play, awesome, but email me instead. Thanks for your cooperation and understanding and support and for you being you.

InfluencesThe feeling this time is a little less maddening. But the finality of it is still sad.

Yesterday, word was confirmed The Dame will close for good on Aug. 23.

The downtown music club had re-opened last October in the old A1A location on East Main. Its former digs down the street on West Main were demolished the previous June to make way for the now-stalled CentrePointe project.

There was, justifiably, much outcry over the initial closing as the demolition also took out Mia’s (which has since successfully relocated to Short and North Limestone) and Buster’s (which will re-open in a larger, reinvented form on Manchester St. in September), thus effectively muting what had been one of downtown’s most active areas of nightlife.

In its new location, The Dame was a loner saddled with a stigma that many of its former patrons couldn’t shake. To some, the ghost of A1A’s frat rock/dance club days was a serious deterrent. Isolated as it was on a block of East Main that generally went to sleep after dark but housed in a complex with other bars with vastly more mainstream appeal, there was still an attractive comfort and spaciousness to the relocated Dame. But maybe one of the reasons it seemed so spacious was because it was so often empty.

The reasons for The Dame’s final closing are likely myriad. Luckily, the big picture isn’t at all as bleak as it when the West Main location shut down in 2008. Since then, older, smaller music venues - specifically Al’s Bar and The Green Lantern - catering more modestly to local music and smaller touring indie acts have emerged. Additionally, newer spots like Lower 48 in Victorian Square are now celebrating one year anniversaries.

There is also the upcoming rebirth of Buster’s. Its new Manchester St. location isn’t even open yet. But the venue already has five substantial shows slated for the fall that are/were right up The Dame’s alley: Young Dubliners on Sept. 16 (a rare regional outing by the Irish-American Celtic rock brigade); Blues Traveler on Sept. 25 (the veteran jam band’s first local club show); Silversun Pickups on Sept. 28 (with Manchester Orchestra and Cage the Elephant); Shooter Jennings and JJ Grey & Mofro on Oct. 1 (two acts that have packed The Dame in the past); and The Black Angels on Oct. 10 (part of WRFL’s Boomslang festival).

While it feels like we all passed out enough goodbyes in 2008 to The Dame to last several lifetimes, we will miss its final passing nonetheless. It was a flagship venue when live music in Lexington was at a premium. But there are no tears this time. Lexington has already moved on.

- Walter Tunis, Lexington Herald-Leader (Aug. 14, 2009)

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The Dame is closed but be sure to check out the shows that Sprouse House Productions is bringing to Lexington!

Thanks for everything, friends!

Since opening in April of 2003, the Dame has hosted such eclectic acts as, in no particular order, Guided By Voices, The Arcade Fire, Neko Case, Mogwai, Blackalicious, Frank Black, Animal Collective, RJD2, Band of Horses, Fruit Bats, Dalek, Iron and Wine, Scissor Sisters, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, The Juan MacLean, Rahzel, Camper Van Beethoven, the Pharcyde, Dosh, Gillian Welch, Of Montreal, Rogue Wave, De La Soul, X, Elf Power, Dressy Bessy, Dar Williams, the 22-20s, Carlos D, De Novo Dahl, Clem Snide, Jucifer, Forget Cassettes, Burnt Sugar, Man Man, Burning Brides, The Wailers, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeny, Stars, the Zombies, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Essex Green, The Black Keys, VHS or Beta, the Features, Los Lonely Boys, Busdriver, Umphrey's McGee, Hasil Adkins, Jenny Toomey, My Brightest Diamond, Brian Auger, Lucero, Murder By Death, Dieselboy, Tony Conrad, Apples in Stereo, Hank III, Blue Cheer, Jolie Holland, North Mississippi All Stars, Devotchka, Jeff Coffin Mu'tet, Alejandro Escovedo, the Heartless Bastards, Voodoo Organist, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Hedrons, Robert Earl Keen, Tommie Sunshine, Iswhat?!, Sun Ra Arkestra, Electric Eel Shock, C-Rayz Walz, Kaki King, Dierks Bently, Michael Tolcher, Devin the Dude, Rodney Crowell, New Model Army, The Sleepy Jackson, Califone, Michelle Shocked, Richard Buckner, Particle, Robert Randolph, Slightly Stoopid, The Detroit Cobras, Kathleen Edwards, Burning Spear, Dark Star Orchestra, the Impossible Shapes, The Queers, Scissors For Lefty, Buddy Miller, Chuck Prophet, Asylum Street Spankers, The National, Goose Creek Symphony, Little Brother, Rickie Lee Jones, Amy Ray, Tommy Stinson, Duwayne Burnside, Pernice Brothers, US Maple, The Sadies, Marc Broussard, Hair Police, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Sam Bush, Quintron & Ms. Pussycat, Freakwater, Son Volt, Edith Frost, Papa M, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Tom Tom Club, Shooter Jennings, John Hammond, Hamid Drake, The High Water Marks, Los Straitjackets, The Octopus Project, Drive By Truckers, Karl Denson, Wesley Willis, Revered Horton Heat, Charlie Hunter, Nappy Roots, Over the Rhine, KRS-One, Old Crow Medicine Show, Jabali Afrika, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Pete Best, Brother Danielson, Ming + FS, Souls of Mischief, Avett Brothers, Andrew Bird, Don Caballero, Rasputina, the Suicide Girls, Battles, Do Make Say Think, DJ Spooky, and every local and regional artist worth seeing!


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Music Infidelity

Music Infidelity



Oct 11 2009 1:02 AM

You will always have our heart & souls! :(
Catherine

Catherine



Sep 18 2009 8:39 PM

a little part of my soul died along with the dame
:*(
ONWARD Pilgrim

ONWARD Pilgrim



Sep 18 2009 8:39 PM

I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!
Eric

Eric Lynch



Aug 18 2009 10:27 PM

I just heard The Dame is having its last show ever, tonight. Is this true? I am saddened to hear it.
Venice Gas House Trolley

Venice Gas House Trolley



Aug 13 2009 8:33 PM

See ya Monday Aug 17 for some Venice Gas House Trolley....





Idaho, Alaska

Idaho, Alaska



Jul 29 2009 10:41 PM

GirlieGirl Burlesque

Kitty Van Dyne



Jul 3 2009 5:08 AM

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Da' Joint in Monticello

Da' Joint in Monticello



Jul 6 2009 8:43 PM

Thanks for the great time..........The Dame Rocks...........
TopRelliK™

TopRelliK™



Jun 22 2009 10:18 PM

TopRellik is Ready to "ROCK" The Dame on July 5th
The Highway Drifter

The Highway Drifter



Jun 23 2009 8:09 PM

come out and watch all of us this will be a great show i open at 9pm so please come out and hang with all of us...it is only 3 dollars i blew off work for this so please come.....
The Highway Drifter

The Highway Drifter



Jun 24 2009 7:33 PM

thanks for haveing me out on tuesday thanks to all that work at the dame from the front to the back helping make a great show and i hope i will be able to come back

john york "the highway drifter"
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Bradlee Burtner

Bradlee Burtner



Jun 8 2009 12:18 AM

Thank you for having me open the show for Paul Thorn on Friday night! Blessings ~ Bradlee Burtner
KNAPSACKHEROES!

KNAPSACKHEROES!



Jun 8 2009 6:08 AM

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PAGAN PIXIE

PAGAN PIXIE



May 31 2009 11:59 PM

You guys have had some amazing music as of late. Tanks, I'm lovin it! Not sure my liver is though :)
Bradlee Burtner

Bradlee Burtner



Jun 2 2009 9:13 PM

Looking forward to playing for you guys and opening up for Paul Thorn this Friday! Blessings ~ Bradlee Burtner
Abbie

Abbie



Jun 4 2009 9:30 AM

Just read that one of the British Three is playing the Dame w/Thriving Ivory, Sam Bradley...now if you can just get the other two here..Bobby Long & Marcus Foster. Perfect! Be Good!
A Melodic Horizon

A Melodic Horizon



May 21 2009 6:17 PM

Thanks for having the best club in town!!!! Much love your way peoples :0)
SCREEMER

SCREEMER



May 7 2009 8:23 PM

Heya!
Thanx 4 helping 2 keep the dream alive in Lex Vegas;)
Cheerz!!!
AUDREY AULD

AUDREY AULD



May 7 2009 10:49 PM

May 28th I'll be there!! Opening for the great Todd Snider!
Abbie

Abbie



May 11 2009 7:39 PM

Hey Dame,
Got to see the new place with Amos Lee ..Cool!! Def. come back..especially if you bring in Bobby Long and/or Marcus Foster! ;)
Sorry I missed The Reverend..you're the only place that brings him in!Be Good!
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Ashley Lynn Hogue



May 4 2009 7:57 PM

Hadn't had a chance to visit the new location until last night. I just wanted to say I love the new place! The Reverend rocked last night. I had an awesome time.
Horizontal Blues Band

Horizontal Blues Band



Apr 14 2009 7:07 PM

Thanks for being Lexington's home of great live music!
**~BuTtErFLYkIsS~**

Christie McNeely



Apr 20 2009 4:46 PM

THE DAME ROCKS..."how u doin" hottie below me..lol
kissy boots

kissy boots



Apr 28 2009 2:55 PM

Weeee! I can't wait to see the Reverend on Sunday!
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