Jake Shore brings Thanksgiving weekend house to HQ2 on Nov. 27

The house producer behind the Confession-label track with Henry Fong returns to Ocean Casino Resort's nightclub on Black Friday night.

The night after Thanksgiving is one of the busiest nights of the year in Atlantic City. Everyone who came home for the holiday wants to get out of the house, and this year HQ2 has the answer: Jake Shore at HQ2 Nightclub on Friday, Nov. 27, 2026, with the night listed to start at 11 p.m.

The date is on HQ2's own artist page and in the club's event listings, with tickets through Ticketmaster and table bookings through HQ2's SevenRooms page. HQ2 is the 1,000-capacity club inside Ocean Casino Resort at 500 Boardwalk, the room that hosted HQ2 sets from Loud Luxury and Steve Aoki in the resort's summer 2026 lineup.

This is not Shore's first time in the booth here. HQ2 booked him in 2024, so he comes back to a club that already knows what he does.

What he does is grab a hook you know and turn it into a peak-time house record. His catalog, as EDM.com has tracked it, includes a collaboration with Henry Fong on Tchami's Confession imprint built on a sample of C+C Music Factory's 1990 hip-house classic, a reworking of DJ Felli Fel's "Get Buck in Here" with DJ Susan on Hood Politics Records, and "SOFTLY," a 2023 rework of the Fugees' "Killing Me Softly." More recent billing points to "G-RAVE" with Rockie Fresh and "Nights Like These" with CLUB INDGO.

A Jake Shore set is the kind where a song your aunt knows drops into a bassline that rattles the bottle service.

That approach suits Atlantic City on a holiday weekend. A Black Friday crowd at a casino club is not a room of crate-diggers. It is college kids home for break, groups of friends who have not seen each other since summer, and people from the Philadelphia suburbs who drove down the Expressway for one night out. A DJ who can hand them something they recognize, then take it somewhere harder, is the right booking for that crowd.

Shore has been playing to crowds like that around the country this year, from Discopussy's PRESSURE series in Las Vegas in April to a college-nightlife night in Miami in late August. Atlantic City gets him on a holiday Friday, when the casino floor will be full before midnight.

Before you go: HQ2 is a 21-and-over nightclub with a dress code, so check the club's page before you plan your outfit. Buy general admission ahead through Ticketmaster rather than at the door, and if your group wants a table on one of the year's biggest nights, book it through SevenRooms now, not on Thanksgiving Day.

Then let the turkey settle, put on something that is not sweatpants, and head for the boardwalk.

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