The Odd Fellow Concert Lounge – Be Well My Friends

The Odd Fellow Concert Lounge is a not for profit / fundraising music venue brought to you by The Be Well My Friends and Downriver Council for the Arts. Our purpose is to cultivate local original music and to fundraise for Downriver.

The Odd Fellow Concert Lounge is back with a new concert on February 22nd for a night of live and local original music. The proceeds from the February show will support our special needs grant program. Doors open at 6:30 and first band at 7. 18+ show and 21+ Bar. $10 at the Door.

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Booking

First, a little about what Be Well My Friends has to offer your band. For each show we provide a cool old school theater that holds 350 people, sound, lighting, video, photography, bar, seating, and a merch table for all the bands to use. If you would like your own merch table then you will need to bring your setup. We are a volunteer nonprofit with 6 volunteers, so please respect that we do the best that we can to bring you and the your fans the best show possible every time. From what people are saying, we’re rockin’ it! Check out this article by Jim Kasuba about us in the local paper New nonprofit music venue in Wyandotte puts the spotlight on local bands – The News Herald.

Second, The Odd Fellow Concert Lounge is NOT a full-time concert venue, bar, or night club. It is a theater that Be Well My Friends, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, rents from the Downriver Council for the Arts to put on our fundraisers. There are 11 concerts per year on 1 Saturday of most months. We take these efforts to raise money through bar sales to fund our special needs grant program. The bands split the proceeds from the door cover charge. This is why we inquire how many people you draw to shows. We ask that your band helps promote each show, hand in hand with us, to create the best show possible and to bring in as many people as possible so that the bands and our nonprofit make a worthwhile profit.

Concerning music, we do not book cover or tribute bands. We don’t mind if you have one or two covers in your set, but do not waste time submitting a booking request if you don’t have at least 30 minutes of original music. If you have any special needs please include that in the application. Please understand this application does not guarantee you a spot at one of the shows. While we wish we could book everyone, our shows spots are limited. We attempt to put like genre with like genre, so setting up a show does take time. Please be patient while we review all submissions. Thank you for your interest in our venue and BE WELL!

The Odd Fellow Concert Lounge Before Each Concert

The Odd Fellow Concert Lounge is a very cool and unique room in Wyandotte, MI.

Inside the Downriver Council for the Arts located at 81 Chestnut is this amazing theater built by The International Order of Odd Fellows in 1921. One Saturday of most months, Be Well My Friends transforms the theater into The Odd Fellow Concert Lounge. Four bands are invited to perform their own ORIGINAL music. Imagine your band on the stage performing for hundreds of live music fans.

The Odd Fellow Concert Lounge After Be Well My Friends Sets Up For Each Concert