Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Cream Cafe Coco No Longer Able to Host Weekend Shows
Posted by Adam Gold on Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:51 PM
In this week's print edition of the Scene you might notice Critics' Picks from Sean Maloney for both the DJs Angel Shadows & Lydia X on Friday night and The Holla show on Saturday night--each at Café Coco. It's worth noting that these are slated to be the final weekend shows at the 24-hour establishment's music venue--at least for the foreseeable future. According to an email received by the Scene:
Sorry to announce that Cafe Coco can no longer do shows on Friday and Saturday nights. [We] had a fire marshall tell [us] we are only allowed a max of a 100 people inside and outside the cafe when there is live music.
This is unfortunate news, especially for folks in our local hip-hop scene, as well as for those singer-songwriters hoping to get discovered and/or berated by John Rich. Discuss.
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only slightly relevant... i saw Paper Heart over the weekend. There's a scene featuring a singer/songwriter who's name i forget performing at Cafe Coco, and an interview conducted with him by Charleyne Yi outside int he parking lot.
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Of course, I realize that there can still be music during the week; but I wonder if music will eventually be phased out of the mid-week as well? Is there a solution?
What's the limit when there is no live music? And what IS live music? Is it music with a band? DJ? Or maybe it's when they have the jukebox going? I maybe am being melodramatic but it is confusing to some degree.
I hope this doesn't end the Jazz Jam on Sundays, though there's only like 20 people there usually.
I thought about this when we were playing the final 3Crow show- if you took the instruments off the stage, you could cram far more people at tables or just standing around drinking- surely that's more dangerous than having only 5 people up there. It just makes
no sense. Nobodys trying to be Great White! I hope Coco doesn't phase out music. They're the only place in town adventurous enough to give our avant garde efforts a monthly showcase.
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