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A decade since the last lusty notes stroked The Bayou, the irreverent, iconic music hall in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC, tales and echoes linger. Metro Teleproductions Inc. has gathered them all in an 80-minute documentary titled The Bayou: DC's Killer Joint.

From murder to redemption, from jazz to rock and roll, from striptease to Kiss, from Mister T to misadventure, from business-as-usual to anything-goes, the documentary, like The Bayou itself, will arouse the senses.

The Georgetown club, once an after-hours joint called The Hideaway, had been shuttered and left for dead after a late-night mob hit in 1953. Renamed and resuscitated by new owners Vince and Tony Tramonte and, for a time, partner Mike Munley, The Bayou would become Washington's bedrock music hall, offering a heady mix of national and regional stars of varied genres.

Over ten years since the gritty, iconic Georgetown jazz club-turned-rock hall was sold and razed and the K Street waterfront changed, its embers still glow.

The Bayou: DC's Killer Joint, a project of IDA's Fiscal Sponsorship Program, premieres Monday, February 25, on Maryland Public TV.