Free show. Free parking.

Enjoy dinner with jazz from a food truck or pack your own basket. No alcoholic beverages permitted. Seating provided or bring your own chairs or blanket. Easy parking and event access is available for individuals with disabilities and seniors.

McCollum Hall is a catalyst renovation project in promoting redevelopment in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. redevelopment area for the Fort Myers CRA. Built in 1938 by Clifford “Buck” McCollum, Sr., a black businessman and entrepreneur, and his wife Gertrude, McCollum Hall was the centerpiece of commerce, music and entertainment in the Dunbar Community.

A popular stop for touring black entertainers on the Chitlin’ Circuit of the 1930s-1950s, its second-floor dance hall jumped to life when musicians took to the stage, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, B.B. King, Dizzy Gillespie, Otis Redding and other jazz and blues greats. It was named to the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 2022. It is a site on Florida’s Black Heritage Trail.

**Presented by the Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency. Powered by HAPCO Music Foundation. Made possible with partnerships from: City of Fort Myers; River District Alliance; Lee County Black History Society; FGCU Bower School of Music & the Arts; Thirty8 Collective; Collaboratory; and Lee Pitts Live.