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The Black Cat is a nightclub in Washington, D.C., located on 14th Street Northwest in the Shaw/U Street neighborhood. The club was founded in 1993 by former Gray Matter drummer Dante Ferrando, along with a group of investors (including D.C. area native, Nirvana drummer, and future Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl)
he Black Cat's "Mainstage" is on the second floor and has a capacity of 800, which can be scaled back to a smaller room with a capacity of 550.
Until 2019, Black Cat hosted lesser known acts on the "Backstage", a smaller area on the first floor. The first floor of the club also contained a no-cover bar/lounge called the "Red Room", and the "Food For Thought" café.
It was announced in September 2018 that, by the end of the year, the venue would shrink in half and that the "Backstage" and "Red Room" would close, moving into a much smaller space upstairs in the venue due to declining interest from patrons of the venue and Ferrando saying that they are making room for one or two retail tenants that fit in better with the new landscape of the neighborhood. In 2001, the venue moved three doors south, from 1831 to 1811 14th Street.