50 years into show business, Lonnie McFadden opened his own Kansas City nightclub to call home

After headlining on stages around the world, Lonnie McFadden opened his own nightclub in the midst of the pandemic. Now the trumpeter and tap dancer is “celebrating life” — and Kansas City jazz — at Lonnie’s Reno Club in the Ambassador Hotel.

“Every week, I can feel the energy,” McFadden explains. “And I don’t know if that’s something that’s going on all over. I hope it is. But I know here the electricity is palpable. I mean, the people are meeting us halfway and we meet them back. I mean, it’s a certain synergy that happens and I love it.”

And after years of performing on a different stage every night, McFadden says it’s nice to have a place to call his own.

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