Juggling Gypsy Hookah bar, Cafe & entertainment parlor: Wilmington NC~ About us

The Juggling Gypsy is an entertainment parlor, North Carolina's Oldest Hookah Bar, and live music venue, providing live entertainment almost 365 days a year.

located at 1612 Castle Street in Wilmington,NC between 16th & 17th Streets diagonal from the ABC on the downtown fringe. Step inside, and step onstage. Since 2004, we've strived to provide a nexus for artists to come share their skills, meet others, and enjoy yummy food and drinks while interacting, in a live setting. It's like a big living room. There are no TV's and no corporate advertising. Our first mantra is, "Sit with, and talk to Strangers." They won't be strangers for long.

We're Open EVERY single day, at 3 PM, until very very late.
Sun-Tues, often around Midnight or later
Wed-Sat, Until 2 AM.

We are a bar, restaurant, cafe, live music /perormance space & studio ...we've got you covered if you're hungry, thirsty, want to smoke hookahs, listen to live music, and get the scoop on the counterculture events around town. we offer over 120 beers, 30 wines, hot grilled quesadillas, pizzas, espresso, juices, and much more.

A space in continual evolution...as people say, If you dont like the layout, come back next time, and it'll be different! Since its creation in february 2004, the Gypsy has morphed into more than a physical location offering food drink and entertainment...It's become a community, and a wild example that a whole is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts.

We've been called a listening room, exploratory theatrish lab...And even " A Venue for those with no Venue"...It's like an international experimental waystation for local and touring shows/music acts to share ideas, meet new people, and relax.

THERE IS NO CORPORATE ADVERTISING IN THE GYPSY.
beyond the actual images on the bottles, we feel that
enough advertising is shoved in our faces during the course of the day, that we don't need to look at it here.

An entertainment parlor and performance cafe. You can try one of over 120 beers on site, delight in a menu of hot, yummy quesadillas and flatbread melts. And you can even smoke a hookah, sampling one of over 100 shisha tobacco flavors.

There is a LOT of art here.
Besides the live entertainment by musical and theatrical acts, there are lots of paintings and other media scattered about the Gypsy...much of which is from local artists, and for sale. The giant mural on the side of the building is in constant evolution, and it seems that even the structure of the building is an artistic work in progress.

We are a meeting place for alternative arts... We have a weekly schedule of performances including Electronic DJs, Open Music jams, Fire Throwers, Bellydancers, circus artists, jugglers, magic, subversive films, certainly lots of live music, and many things a traditional venue isn't.

A community developed on the fringe
It's amazing how many wild projects are spawned from people that meet here, that make their way out into the greater community. From marriages, children, and long-lasting friendships, to community groups, dance troupes, and travel networks spawned, devised, created, concocted & grown here.