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A Victorian pub on Mack Avenue is booking the Belleville three

Cannons Bar opened in October 2025. It serves oysters and books techno.

A Victorian pub on Mack Avenue is booking the Belleville three

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Cannons Bar opened in October 2025. It serves oysters and books techno.

The combination sounds made up. The place is real. The owners are running a Victorian-leaning menu with pints, oysters, and a weekend brunch on one side of the calendar, and actual Detroit techno talent on the other. Juan Atkins played inside the first two months. Derrick May was on the early calendar. Kevin Saunderson played on April 11, 2026.

All three Belleville figures at the same new bar inside six months is not a coincidence. Somebody at Cannons knows what they are doing, or knows somebody who does. Either way, a pub on Mack Avenue became the Belleville Three's neighborhood spot faster than most new venues book their first touring act.

The room is small, which is the point. A Saunderson set at a festival main stage is one kind of experience. A Saunderson set at a bar that fits inside a typical Marble Bar Saturday crowd is a different one, and the second is the version people will still be talking about in ten years.

Cannons is at 15241 Mack Avenue in Morningside.

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