Kenny's Castaways is closed forever after tonight; Willie Nile & the Smithereens playing final show

As we mentioned, legendary West Village music club Kenny’s Castaways is closing its doors forever, and their final show is going down TONIGHT (10/1/2012). It’s a free show starting at 8pm and will feature sets by Willie Nile and The Smithereens, as the NY Times also points out:

In the early 1970s, Willie Nile, a singer and songwriter who had recently moved to New York, went uptown to check out Kenny’s. He said he recognized a young man with a scruffy beard sitting at the bar: Bruce Springsteen, who had just released his first record, “Greetings From Asbury Park,” played some of his first New York shows at Kenny’s.

“When you walk in there, you can feel the years, you can feel the presence of all these wanderers, visionaries and dreamers who came in there,” said Mr. Nile, who was signed to Arista Records in 1980 after impressing the record executive Clive Davis with a set at Kenny’s. Mr. Nile, along with the Smithereens, will be on the club’s farewell bill on Monday night.

Who knows who else might show up, though nothing else is being promised.