This legendary music venue is in trouble Recently featured in " ROCKETMAN" - it's where Elton grabbed his first big spotlight

https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/troubadour-needs-help/

With concert venues placing dead last in Governor Gavin Newsom’s four-phase plan to reopen California, historic live music venue the Troubadour may have staged its final act.

Although the comparatively small club has launched some of the world’s biggest performers over the past 60 years, the Troubadour’s general manager, Christine Karayan, is facing the prospect that intimate venues like hers just don’t have the resources to survive the extended closure the plan requires.

“That means the middle to the end of next year to potentially open, and maybe a 25 percent cap” on crowd size, Karayan tells the Los Angeles Times. “I can’t foresee being able to ride this out like that.”

While larger venues can enforce social distancing when they’re allowed to open, that’s not an option for the 500-capacity, general ad

I have seen countless shows here, and there is not a better place to see live music in LA, IMO



https://www.gofundme.com/f/troubadour-relief-fund

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Here is some very interesting history over the years


https://www.troubadour.com/history/

luv4u said:

Here is some very interesting history over the years


https://www.troubadour.com/history/

It's a really special place - one of the last original venues from back in the day. I hope they make it!

It is an amazing venue, super small w/ big sound. Was lucky enough to see Prince there & not a bad spot in the house.

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Farfunknugin said:

It is an amazing vene, super small w/ big sound. Was lucky enough to see Prince there & not a bad spot in the house.

Yes! I have been to many shows there and was never disappointed... well, except one time... when a millennial in front of me tried to hand me her empty beer bottle and said "Pass it back" - I looked at the bottle and looked at her and said, "If you don't want ot hold it, then maybe YOU should walk it back to the bar where you bought it or just hold it until the set it over."


kids.