{"id":410051,"date":"2026-08-18T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410051\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:02:09","slug":"no-alcohol-no-talking-this-dallas-music-venue-isnt-like-most-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410051\/","title":{"rendered":"No alcohol, no talking: This Dallas music venue isn&#8217;t like most clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas\u2019 acoustic faithful have another place to worship. Martin\u2019s Music Caf\u00e9, inside King of Glory Lutheran Church, is carrying on the listening-room tradition of the late, great Uncle Calvin\u2019s Coffeehouse at NorthPark Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n<p>The names share the same ecclesiastical wordplay: Uncle Calvin\u2019s took its name from Protestant reformer John Calvin, while Martin\u2019s tips its hat to Martin Luther.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in June 2024, the volunteer-run nonprofit hosts seated concerts in the church\u2019s Fellowship Hall. Unlike most clubs, Martin\u2019s is a true concert space: Alcohol is verboten and talking during the show is a no-no. Coffee, tea and desserts are served pre-concert and at intermission.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming attractions include Nashville tunesmith Kim Richey (Sept. 18); Bay Area folk singer Deidre McCalla (Oct. 2); husband-and-wife duo Ordinary Elephant (Nov. 6); D-FW artists Helene Cronin and Songbird Jones (Nov. 20); and Oklahoma singer Verlon Thompson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/movies\/2021\/05\/10\/new-guy-clark-film-examines-his-love-triangle-with-townes-van-zandt-susanna-clark\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Clark<\/a>\u2019s longtime collaborator (Dec. 4). At the end of August, the stage belongs to Texas pedal steel legend Lloyd Maines and singer-songwriter Terri Hendrix.<\/p>\n<p>Terri\u00a0Hendrix and Lloyd Maines, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28, Martin\u2019s Music Caf\u00e9 at King of Glory Lutheran Church, 6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingofglory.com\/mmc\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kingofglory.com\/mmc\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas\u2019 acoustic faithful have another place to worship. Martin\u2019s Music Caf\u00e9, inside King of Glory Lutheran Church, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,87998,88950,98969],"class_list":["post-410051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-music","tag-tp-musicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}