Cary Saurage Community Arts Center — Venue For Prom Macabre
Baton Rouge’s long-shuttered nightclub scene gets a one-night resurrection this Friday, when Prom Macabre brings DJ Prep back behind the decks at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center for a dark retro celebration built for people who remember when dance floors in this city never seemed to close. The 21-and-older event starts at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 at 233 St. Ferdinand St., with a costume contest, a crowned prom king and queen, and a soundtrack pulled straight from the city’s vanished club era.
The gathering is presented by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and Big in Baton Rouge Productions, who are billing it as a one-night reunion of South Louisiana’s club scene, according to The Advocate. An Eventbrite listing confirms the Oct. 30 date and venue, identifying DJ Prep as the headline act, with the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge also listed on the ticketing platform as an organizer of upcoming events in the city.
A DJ Who Never Really Left the Booth
DJ Prep has been a fixture of Louisiana nightlife since the mid-1980s, per The Advocate’s reporting, with residencies at a string of clubs, including The Kingfish in the Lafayette area and Shelter, T.Trax, Luna and Gridlock in Baton Rouge. His sets have long blended dark wave, 1980s dance, breakbeat, techno and trance, a mix that traces back to his years spinning records in rooms that shaped a generation of dancers, DJs and night owls across the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s…