Club Cabaret

Club Cabaret is located at 101 N. Center Street, Hickory, North Carolina. [ourcommunityroots.com] The site's photo archive documents pageants and events at Club Cabaret dating back to at least 2012 (Miss Summer Sizzle), with recurring titles such as Mr. and Miss Cabaret Sweetheart, Mr. and Miss Club Cabaret, and Mr. and Miss Cabaret Casinova continuing through 2023. [ourcommunityroots.com] The site's ad archive for Club Cabaret contains materials dated 2011, 2013, 2015 through 2019, and 2021. [ourcommunityroots.com] The venue describes itself as North Carolina's Premier Show Bar. [clubcabarethickory.com] The venue is located at 101 N Center St, Hickory, NC 28601, and holds shows every Friday and Saturday night. [clubcabarethickory.com] The venue describes itself as offering an inclusive, welcoming environment, and states it can be hired for drag events, benefit shows, and private parties. [clubcabarethickory.com] Jeff Reeves is identified as the owner of Club Cabaret in Hickory. [qnotescarolinas.com] Reeves' drag persona is Nancy Newton; he says he started drag in 1980 and won Ms. Gay USA in 1992. [qnotescarolinas.com] Reeves said he bought the Mr. Gay USA pageant in 1992 from Jerry Bird, who had originally started it, and continued it under the name "USA Unlimited" after a legal dispute with Donald Trump's organization over use of the name "USA." [qnotescarolinas.com] Reeves said he and "Buddy" first opened Tree Tops on 14th Avenue in Hickory in 1977, before Club Cabaret. [qnotescarolinas.com] Asked what he attributes his venues' longevity to, Reeves said he has been in the bar business for 50 years counting the bar in Hickory (Club Cabaret), a bar in Asheville, and Delusions in Myrtle Beach. [qnotescarolinas.com] Reeves said he was president of the Carolina Bear Lodge in 2003 and 2004, and again in 2009, at a time when it had chapters in ten North Carolina cities and 285 members. [qnotescarolinas.com] Club Cabaret is at 101 N Center St, Hickory, NC 28601, in downtown Hickory, and its telephone number is (828) 322-8103. [clubcabarethickory.com] It opens on Friday and Saturday nights, with music, cocktails and performers, and calls itself a show bar. [clubcabarethickory.com] The venue is hired out for drag events, benefit shows and private parties. [clubcabarethickory.com] Our Community Roots records the club at 101 N. Center Street, Hickory, and holds street views of the property from April 2008 and May 2019. [ourcommunityroots.com] It lists pageants held at the club, among them Miss Club Cabaret, Mr. Club Cabaret, Club Cabaret Entertainer of the Year, Miss Cabaret Fresh Face, Miss Cabaret Sweetheart, Miss Summer Sizzle, Miss Scare-olina, Miss Cabaret Casinova, Cabaret Prom King and Queen, National Miss Don't H8 and Miss Gay North Carolina USofA. [ourcommunityroots.com] Its photograph archive of club pageants runs from about 2012 to a Mr. and Miss Club Cabaret on 12 March 2023, and its file of the club's advertising from 2011 to 2021. [ourcommunityroots.com] It names more than ninety entertainers as having been featured at the club, among them Heidi N. Closet, Jazell Barbie Royale, Shelita Bonet Hoyle and Kelly Ray. [ourcommunityroots.com]

“North Carolina’s Premier Show Bar” [clubcabarethickory.com]

“I started drag in 1980 and went to Miss America in ‘82.” [qnotescarolinas.com]

“And if I live ’til Nov. 7, I have been in the bar business for 50 years. And this is counting the bar in Hickory, the bar in Asheville and Delusions in Myrtle Beach.” [qnotescarolinas.com]

“North Carolina’s Premier Show Bar” [clubcabarethickory.com]