The Royal American

The Royal American is a neighborhood bar, restaurant, and live music room located in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Operating since 2011, the venue hosts original live performances from local, regional, and national touring artists on weekends. It sits in the 100–300 capacity range on BANDANA.

Its own listing points to touring bills, local bills and regional acts. Programming shifts night to night, so check the venue's calendar and confirm fit when you send a date request through BANDANA.

Send a date request through The Royal American's free BANDANA booking form — it only offers nights the venue has open, so you're never asking for a date that's already gone. The request lands in the venue's BANDANA booking inbox and the venue replies to you directly. BANDANA doesn't take a cut and can't promise a yes.

The Royal American is listed at about 200 capacity (100–300). Layouts change by event, so confirm exact stage, production and door details with the venue when you send a request.

Yes — The Royal American currently shows 39 bookable nights in the next 60 days, counted from the nights it takes bookings minus dates already marked closed on its BANDANA calendar. You can widen the window up to six months out on the directory.

Open dates are usually set and kept current by BANDANA, based on the booking nights each venue publishes on its own site, and re-checked on a weekly pass. A venue that claims its BANDANA listing can edit its own open dates, close nights and add shows at any time.

Charleston, South Carolina location, room capacity, a shot of the venue's homepage, a link to its own website, a live count of open dates and a booking form. Direct booking contact details are visible to signed-in BANDANA users only.

Yes. Browsing the listing and sending a date request through BANDANA is free for bands — no card, no trial period, no booking commission.

Browsing is open to anyone. A free BANDANA account is needed to see direct contact details, and a request only reaches The Royal American once the sender is signed in — submit while signed out and you'll confirm it by clicking the link BANDANA emails you.

It goes straight into the venue's BANDANA booking inbox tied to the date you picked, and the venue replies to you directly. You can send one request per venue per week, so follow up by replying to your BANDANA booking notification rather than submitting again.

The "Venues like this one" section below lists comparable rooms by city, region and capacity, and the "Browse more Southeast venues" link opens the full Southeast page where you can compare capacity and open dates side by side.