The Triple Door is a diner

Diner

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 and venue

Music venue

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 founded in the fall of 2003, located at 216 Union Street in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

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. The building often hosts concerts for folk

Folk music

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, indie, and World music

World music

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 groups. The Triple Door is also notable for the numerous effective fundraisers it has held and/or hosted, such as the "Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation

Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation

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" and "The Triple Door Young Artists Fundraiser". One fundraiser had an auction

Auction

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 that raised around 1.15 million dollars for various children organizations.

History

The Triple Door is located on Union Street in the Mann building, the former home of the Embassy Theatre which was established as opened in 1926. Live performances were only held in the Embassy for a short while before becoming a movie theatre at the end of the '20s. The Embassy Theatre maintained its title as an A-list theatre well into the fifties but slowly lost popularity in the sixties. In 1983, the building closed down and remained vacant for over a decade.
The building was bought in 1999 by Rick and Ann Yoder, and renovations to improve the quality of live performances began in the fall three years later. In September 2003, The Triple Door opened the doors to their first show where Skerik's Syncpated Taint Septet performed and recorded their live album (which was released 7 years later).
The venue quickly rose in popularity and hosted shows for bands in the lounge (known as the "Musicquarium") such as Ottmar Liebert

Ottmar Liebert

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, The Courage, Natacha Atlas

Natacha Atlas

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, Bassekou Kouyate

Bassekou Kouyate

Bassekou Kouyaté is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba.He was born in Garana, Barouéli Cercle, 60 kilometres from Ségou in 1966. At the age of 12, he started playing the Ngoni. In the late 80's he moved to the capital Bamako.Kouyaté's album Segu Blue was released internationally...

, The Unthanks, Katie Herzig

Katie Herzig

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, Greg Dulli

Greg Dulli

-Biography:Greg Dulli was born and brought up in the working-class city of Hamilton, Ohio. Although he was raised a Catholic, he is now agnostic. Dulli first came to public attention in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs when he joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky,...

, Alyse Black

Alyse Black

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 and Edwin McCain

Edwin McCain

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Recognition

The Triple Door has received awards for the quality of the lounge, wine

Wine

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, and performance from Pollstar

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, AOL

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, Seattle Weekly

Seattle Weekly

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, Seattle Metropolitan

Seattle Metropolitan

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, Outside Magazine, and National Geographic.