Sunday, November 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Free live band
Slim's: Local rock set. No cover listed. The bar is the room — the sheet, the host, or the house, not a touring bill.
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Slim's
Downtown · 237 S Wilmington St, Raleigh, NC
Van Alston and Chris Post opened the room at 227 S. Wilmington St. on April 15, 1999, as the Lakeside Lounge, a partnership with a New York bar of the same name. Within a year they split with the New York partners and renamed it Slim’s, a nod to a bartender nicknamed Fats. The narrow downtown dive became Raleigh’s intimate rock club, with a stage barely a foot off the floor and room for about 100, booking rising local bands and touring acts that wanted a small room. New owners took over in April 2024.
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