Without music, concerts wouldn’t exist and funk would just be the smell emanating from an old sock filled with corn. Lend an ear to this Groupon.

Choose Between Two Options

• $34 for a jazz-concert package for two (up to a $70 value)
• $64 for a jazz-concert package for four (up to a $140 value)<p>

Packages include the following for each person:

• One music-lounge ticket to an upcoming concert (up to a $25 value)
• One coffee or other beverage (a $4 value)
• One dessert (a $6 value) from the menu, which includes Georgia peach cobbler, key lime pie, and southern bread pudding with bourbon-cream sauce.<p>

The Velvet Note is only open on Friday and Saturday evenings beginning at 4 p.m. Shows typically take place at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on both nights. The Velvet Note’s acoustic living room only seats 40 people, so space is limited—especially when some of the big names in jazz and blues from around the country come to visit.

Upcoming acts include José Manuel Garcia (August 24–25)—the classically trained ivory tickler of the International Groove Conspiracy—and Orlando Napier (September 28–29), the Los Angeles–based R & B crooner fresh off NBC’s The Voice. Also performing, Toni Byrd (September 8) channels the honey-sweet vocals of Billie Holiday), and Nashville-native Annie Sellick (September 14) makes jazz staples her own with a slight southern accent, a deceptively large stage presence, and a big red rubber stamp.<p>

The Velvet Note

No strangers to the stage themselves, the board of directors at The Velvet Note built the intimate venue as a musician’s dream of exquisite natural acoustics. On its carefully crafted soundstage sits a 1924 Baldwin Model M baby grand piano, which serves an endless lineup of locally and nationally renowned acts every Friday and Saturday. In between applause and using their index fingers as maestro batons, visitors can occupy their hands with food from The Velvet Note’s menu, featuring lobster cobb salad, black mussels in garlic butter, and all manner of classic southern desserts. Run by musicians for musicians, the club creates an up-close-and-personal environment where performers and fans can actually mingle.

_The Velvet Note's rates for shows fluctuate from $10 to $25, depending on the performer_