Doors: 6:30pm Show: 7:30pm

Tickets: $20 advance, $25 doors

Advance tickets can only be purchased online-we do not sell advance tickets at the venue. Refunds are not available within 48 hours of the event. Tickets do not guarantee seating during shows at the Royal Room. 

We are now accepting reservations for diners! After purchasing tickets, please visit the Reservations page to book a table. Table reservations require advance tickets, and are only for guests who plan to dine at the Royal Room.  We do not take reservations over the phone.

Seating for non-diners is first come, first served. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat!

The Royal Room is All Ages until 10pm. 

BLACK VIIOLET is the alter-ego of Nicole Laurenne, lead singer and founder of Alternative Tentacles all-girl garagepunk band The Darts (US). Nicole steps away from her Farfisa organ flinging, crowdsurfing rock persona into a whole new world with Black Viiolet – a sultry, neosoul, vintage-jazz-inspired, triphop-tinged, spy-movie experience, invoking smoky jazz clubs and back-alley speakeasies. With musicians from two continents backing her and top-level producers, Black Viiolet is far more than just a side project but a true labor of love.

Black Viiolet played its first live shows in 2024, in support of the debut EP, Kill Me Now (2024 Adrenalin Fix Music). Seattle’s premiere jazz radio station KNKX featured Black Viiolet on its show “The New Cool” and put the EP into rotation. Multiple tours in Europe and the USA soon followed. Keyboard giant Korg, Inc., became a sponsor for Nicole on two continents, Phantogram’s publicist added the band to its roster, and press began to roll in throughout the US, UK, and Europe.

The EP sold out within nine months and was re-pressed onto 12” laser-etched photo-disc vinyl in Europe. The first full-length LP, After You (2025 Adrenalin Fix Music), was released in early 2025. The album features fourteen top-tier jazz musicians and nine top producers from the USA and Europe, including Conrad Real (Digable Planets) on drums.

The album release tour stretched from France, Switzerland, and Germany to Canada and the USA Pacific Northwest, with horn players from both France and the USA and Darts’ labelmate Gregg Ziemba (Wheelchair Sportscamp) taking the drums to the next level on tour.

Highlights included opening for Switzerland’s The Jackets and Seattle’s famed Easy Street Records hosting the band’s live show to close out the tour.
During the album release tour, Black Viiolet stopped at legendary Studio Black Box (The Kills) in France to record the second full-length album, which will include guest appearances by Blag Dahlia (The Dwarves), Tom Hagerman (Devotchka), Jason Devore (Authority Zero), and Jonathan Hischke (Nora Jones, Cigar).

Wipeout Music Publishing (Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs) in the UK and Ivy Agency (Detroit Cobras) in the USA have added Black Viiolet to their rosters. The next album and tours promise an ever-evolving, energetic-yet-soulful, always-personal experience like nothing else out there right now.

THE SPICE BOX – A genre-bending blend of Eastern Noir and Spiced Reverie — where jazz, folk, pop, and blues unravel into spicy grooves and hypnotic moods.

Mehnaz Hoosein
Mehnaz  is an award winning, Hindustani classically trained singer, performer and songwriter from Mumbai, India who thrives on musical collaborations with artists from around the world. She fuses genres ranging from Pop, Jazz, Folk, Rock, Blues, Bollywood, Hindustani Classical and World Music and vocalizes in multiple languages. Mehnaz was the lead singer of the Seattle-based band Manooghi Hi and is now the lead singer of the band Tikkadoom.
www.mehnazmusic.com​ ​ –

Kent Halvorsen
Keyboards, piano, trumpet, drums, guitar
Kent is easily one of the Seattle underground’s most celebrated figures. He is currently a member of Saruna, West Seattle Soul & Rubies in the Dust, and has been a member of Manooghi Hi and Dabouge. Having performed and written with Seattle music royalty such as Shawn Smith, legendary drummer KJ Sawka, and Sky Cries Mary, he also toured extensively as a member of American Idol star Blake Lewis’ band ADD. While with Blake, Kent played on many national TV shows and in arenas​.

Larry Mahlis
Larry is a drummer/percussionist who is known as an original and versatile voice on drum set and percussion. He has performed numerous times in orchestral halls, clubs and concert venues and has appeared on a number of recordings in addition to film and TV soundtrack work. Larry has performed in the US, Japan, Mexico and Canada.

Jimmy Thomas  
Jimmy has been a fixture on guitar and bass in Seattle since 1979, playing jazz, rock, funk and blues. Jimmy has performed with Washington Blues Society hall of fame guitarist Billy Stapleton and Grammy nominated vocalist, Mark Dufresne. He played bass with Micheal Shrieve in the experimental improv jazz band The Lords of Compassion. https://michaelshrieve.bandcamp.com/album/michael-shrieves-lords-of-compassion-live-at-the-crocodile Jimmy was a member of the squirrels for close to 30 years, playing guitar, recording engineer, producer, singer and sometimes bass. Jimmy was in Manooghi Hi with Mehnaz, Kent and occasionally, Larry. He has released three jazz/fusion albums in the last five years under the name Emotional Android.
https://www.emotionalandroidmusicwerks.com