Largo (nightclub)

Café Largo featured music (including performances by Peter Himmelman, Colin Hay, Victoria Williams, Suzanne Vega, Syd Straw, The Love Jones, Julie Christensen, Hugo Largo, Grant Lee Buffalo, Fiona Apple), cabaret (including performances by Philip Littell, Stephanie Vlahos, Lypsinka, Barry Yourgrau), vaudeville (Les Stevens), comedy (Nora Dunn, Beth Lapides), and spoken word (Tommy Cody, Eve Brandstein, Michael Lally).

[5] In March 1992, Boccara sold the club to Mark Flanagan and his wife Aimee Cain (international model and of Star Search fame).

Largo's original location on Fairfax Avenue had 100 seats, with a maximum full capacity of 130, and regularly sold out, with frequent sightings of celebrity musicians and actors in the audience.

Over the years, the list of semi-regular performers at the club has included Neil Finn,[2] E of the Eels, Robyn Hitchcock,[2] John Doe, Ben Folds,[2] Grant-Lee Phillips,[1] Rickie Lee Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Jakob Dylan, Teddy Thompson, t.A.T.u., Brad Mehldau, and Colin Hay.

Mann and Penn developed a road show called Acoustic Vaudeville on the Largo format, which they have taken to Chicago and New York.

Brion names the genre celebrated by Largo as "unpopular pop", and underlines the emphasis on lyrics with "We're all song sluts here.

The band Wild Colonials largely got their start at Largo with a successful Tuesday night residency that lasted nine months during 1992 and 1993.

In 1993, at the height of the Los Angeles spoken word scene of that decade, Largo hosted several events featuring L.A. writers Viggo Mortensen, Scott Wannberg, Ellyn Maybe, S.A. Griffin, Tequila Mockingbird, and Linda Ravenswood.