Named for Don Robey's pioneering Bronze Peacock, the Bronze Peacock Room at House of Blues Houston carries forward one of the most storied names in the city's musical history. The original Bronze Peacock opened in the Fifth Ward in 1946 as the finest upscale club in the neighbourhood, a hub for live music on the chitlin' circuit, and later became the headquarters of Robey's Duke and Peacock record labels, where artists from Clarence Gatemouth Brown to Bobby Bland recorded. The modern room sits just off the main music hall inside House of Blues Houston, the 43,000-square-foot entertainment complex that opened downtown in 2008 and houses a restaurant, a VIP club, a large multi-storey music hall and this smaller, elegantly designed space. At around 2,200 square feet, the Bronze Peacock is the venue's intimate room, decorated with folk art and ornately painted walls. It is built for smaller-scale performances and private functions, with a private entrance, a lighted stage, an adequate bar and its own seated lounge. Capacities run to roughly 200 for a reception, 125 for theatre-style seating or about 100 for a seated dinner, making it well suited to acts that cannot quite fill the main hall and to business dinners, cocktail receptions and showcase gigs. The room's programming leans towards more intimate touring acts and local talent, and the House of Blues operators have signalled an interest in giving local blues musicians a stage there, a fitting echo of the name it carries. That connection to the original Peacock gives the space a sense of lineage rare in a modern entertainment complex. The original Fifth Ward building, which later served as a church, fell into disrepair and was demolished, leaving only a historical marker and memories of the venue and recording empire that once thrived there. The Bronze Peacock Room keeps the name in active use, a small but deliberate tribute to Houston's mid-century role as a centre of African-American music.

Type: Theater / Concert Hall

Address: 1204 Caroline Street, Houston, TX, United States, 77002

Website: https://www.houseofblues.com/houston

Opening Date: 01/10/2008