Bar
The Skylark Lounge
Dive-bar blues stage spotlighting veteran Black musicians in a converted juke joint.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Skylark Lounge in Austin follows the small corner stage where the pianist Margaret Wright held a weekly residency from the day the bar opened, and the building's earlier life as a lesbian bar on a block once known as Black Austin. It traces how segregation shaped that block, and how blues and soul musicians in their seventies and eighties kept playing there for over a decade. Best heard while standing near that corner stage, now empty.
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