It doesn’t make much of a difference to anyone attending since the venues are in the same building, but tonight’s G. Love & Special Sauce show has been moved from the Midtown Ballroom to the smaller Domino Room.
It’s not a terribly shocking development, but all the pre-show promotion listed the venue as the Midtown Ballroom, so I thought I’d let you know.
I’m really posting this for a few other reasons, though:
1) You want to make sure you get there in time for opener Eric Tollefson, a local guy who does a very accessible, bluesy pop sort of thing. You can check out one of his best songs over there to the right at Frequency Radio. He’ll take the stage at 9 p.m.
2) You should also wander upstairs and check out the new and improved look of The Annex, which is the bar above the Midtown and Domino Room. The team that has recently taken back management of the venues has been working hard to spruce up the whole complex, and they’ve made tons of progress in The Annex, which has new flooring, more seating space, nicer bathrooms and a much more open floor plan. Check it out:
A not-so-great photo of The Annex by Ben. You can see the new tile and the spacious new floor plan (thanks to the relocation of the bar), but not the refurbished stage, which is off to the left.
3) A move from the Midtown to the Domino Room means one thing: Not enough tickets have sold to justify staying in the bigger room. Seems like a good time to repeat something I wrote last winter:
Bend has a mighty active music scene for a town its size. Thanks to the hard work and persistence of a few locals, plus Bend’s rising reputation as a cool place to live/visit, we get a fairly steady stream of medium- to big-name acts touring through our remote little burg on a regular basis.
That’s something that doesn’t just happen overnight. It takes years of building to achieve. But I fear it can go away pretty quickly.
So we — that’s you and me, fellow music lover — need to work to protect the scene that we have here.
The experience of watching music being made, and sharing that music with other people, is one of life’s great pleasures. But to share it with others, you must go see it. And to go see it, it must come here. And for it to come here, people must go see it and share it. (See what I did there? It’s cyclical.)
As I said in this space a few weeks ago, if we don’t use it, we run the risk of losing it. So use it.
Here’s how you use it: Head down to the Domino Room after 8 p.m. tonight and check out Eric Tollefson and G. Love. It’ll cost you $23 — a small price to pay for a vibrant music scene.
RT @frequencyblog TONIGHT:G. Love moved to Domino Room+the opener, The Annex,& supporting the local scene http://bit.ly/S2Dly #music #inbend
Thank god, that upstairs bar needed some lourve