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The Atlantis is a music venue in Washington, D.C., that opened on May 30, 2023. The venue was designed to evoke the original 9:30 Club at 930 F Street NW, which itself was first called The Atlantis. The new venue opened exactly 43 years after the original 9:30 Club. The venue, adjacent to the current 9:30 Club on V Street NW, has a relatively small capacity of 450 people.

Grand Opening
During a private soft launch opening on Sunday May 28, D.C. power pop/punk band, Venray was the very first to perform, opening for the local go-go band, Trouble Funk. The much vaunted grand opening on May 30, 2023 featured the Foo Fighters, performing there two years after Dave Grohl first revealed that the venue was being built. As part of the celebration of the opening, Mayor Muriel Bowser proclaimed May 30 to be "9:30 Club Day" in Washington, D.C.

Opening Concert Season
The club planned 44 performances during its inaugural season, running from May through September 2023. Tickets were initially released through a lottery system, drawing over half a million requests for the 20,000 tickets.