Sundays at Kelsey’s

Suzanne Cloud
4 min readMar 25, 2019

When drummer Tony Day invited me to sit in on a Sunday night at Kelsey’s in Atlantic City, I didn’t know what to expect. The last time I’d sung in the casino city was way back in the day when musicians could still get regular gigs there. Not so anymore. The casinos are barely hanging on. But I wondered if there could be a musical renaissance happening outside the slot and roulette scene.

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Suzanne Cloud

Writer, historian, jazz singer-songwriter, PhD American Studies. Author of Images of America: Philadelphia Jazz and the play “Last Call at the Downbeat”