[4] The main floor bars were fed bottled liquor from a "tap" room that was situated above the entrance.

[8] In the late 1990s, The Bayou was owned by Dave Williams (Cellar Door Productions), who was also responsible for putting on the concerts at DAR Constitution Hall and the Capital Centre.

Williams also was the GM at the Nissan Pavilion (now Jiffy Lube Live) in Gainesville, VA.[9] Though The Bayou generally attracted an older crowd, the club also featured a diverse following including college students from Georgetown University, men and women from the many military installations in the DC area and The Pentagon.

[citation needed] The Bayou was a stop on the national tours of musical groups and solo artists.

The club, which was a regular stop on East Coast tours by UK bands from the late 1970s on, featured artists including U2 (their second show in the United States), Kiss, Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers (performing twice in 1988 which would be their final DC shows with founding members Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons), The Only Ones, Squeeze, Peter Tosh, Basia (1988, her first show in the United States), The Police, Duran Duran, Phish, Leftover Salmon, Dave Matthews Band, Blue Öyster Cult, Lindsey Buckingham, The New Orleans Radiators, Hootie & the Blowfish, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, the Tom-Tom Club, Acoustic Junction, Steeleye Span, From Good Homes, Foreigner, The Kinks, Todd Rundgren (backed by Utopia on this stop of his 1978 Back to the Bars tour), Yellow Magic Orchestra, The Cure on their first US tour and other artists that influenced the evolution of rock as well as rhythm and blues from the 1960s through the 1990s.