“You need to talk about the story right now,” Chicago composer Terry White said on a recent Friday night. “Here’s a song called “Yourself in Hitale.”
At the moment there were concessions, of course. Instead of being in one of the two rooms used by the FitzGerald nightclub for concerts, the band stood on an outdoor level freshly built on the open asphalt between FitzGerald buildings, experienced musicians playing rock with enduring roots in new wood.
Bandmates who did not sing wore masks, as did FitzGerald’s team. In front of them, the visitors to the club were all seated in socially remote groups, Adirondack chairs for couples, patio tables under umbrellas for giant groups. “Get up, hide, ” the symptoms said in an arm of the chair.
Yet, and all, it’s great: hot air, bloodless beer, live music, almost like a flashback from a time when the air around you was disarmed, where other people didn’t lose jobs right and hand, when the culture that unites them to us wasn’t. in combination with an endangered species.
“Because of COVID, I miss my live music,” said Leslie McDonnell of Villa Park, who works in chemical sales, and at the club for the back time in a row on Friday. “When they started opening things, I started Googleting where the live music is, and FitzGerald came.”
It was already, he says, the fourth time I saw music on FitzGerald’s terrace, and there was a lot to decide. Since the state entered Phase Four of its reopening plan and became transparent to new owner Will Duncan who science supported the concept that the well-remote outdoor activity was safe, the club since the last week of June has organized a regular list of loose concerts. Array filling weekend nights and weekend evenings.
“So we can present live music here, which is amazing. I mean, that’s why we were born.”
SPACE, the Evanston, club, started a new outdoor concert series in August, SPACE Summer Stage, by putting up a “big-top tent” on an open lot near its location. There’s room for just 50 guests grouped with their own people at cabaret or picnic tables, and most of the shows, scheduled (as of midweek) through Sept. 12, are sold out already.
Montrose Saloon, in the Albany Park area, presents exhibits at its outdoor café. City Winery, in the West Loop, tried to schedule a series of concerts in the courtyard for its outdoor space, but the city put an end to it.
“The first two dates were scheduled to rain, and then we had a glorious display with sold-out tickets with Neal Francis before we were given a word of the city,” Libthrough Brickson, senior programming director, emailed us. What he said in the room, he said, that his patio license did not allow live or recorded music “and we had to cancel the series.”
Brickson said City Winery “explores the resumption of exhibits in our concert hall with a very intimate audience of 50 people. Stay tuned!”
It’s also remarkable, and there’s actually at least a few others, Hey Nonny in Arlington Heights puts live music outdoors and, with the windows open, says, inside.
Beyond that, the other big trend for live concerts were the driving shows, which necessarily painted as videos behind the wheel, but with a band in the position of the screen and with additional area between cars (and greater sound). ).
The Lakeshore Drive-in series in the parking lot of the Adler Planetarium, for example, continues on Sunday with functionality through Mungion, a Chicago band.
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco temporarily sold a drive-in on September 18 at the McHenry Outdoor Theater, a movie theater. And FitzGerald sold one in early July, a price of $75 consistent with the wagon occasion with the Waco Brothers and held in a Lot of Maywood.
But those nice flashes of semi-normality shouldn’t fool other people into thinking things are going well or even, really, in the live music industry. Outdoor concerts, in the few spaces that can accommodate them, last only the time.
The vast majority of Chicago concert halls are now closed and are expected to remain closed until there is an effective COVID-19 remedy or vaccine. Limited-capacity interior displays make no monetary sense and don’t feel safe, club owners say.
“If we only get 50% occupancy, it just doesn’t work,” said Robert Gomez, owner of Beat Kitchen and Subterranean, and one of CIVL’s founders, the Chicago Independent League of Headquarters. “Without a vaccine, we just don’t see how we could work.”
CIVL “tried everything,” said Katie Tuten, co-owner of the hideout, adding that she lobbied for rental assistance and a loan in the state and city and to get a license relief.
“We checked every single angle imaginable just to keep us afloat,” he says.
As it has already been organized in 2018 to fight the giant’s perspective of live country concerts and its proposed lineup in Lincoln Yards’s north side progression, CIVL has been a key player in the new National Association of Independent Headquarters, which is pushing for federal aid, such as the Save Our Stages Act.
“We are so fast and furious to have a federal law now,” Tuten said. “Without federal assistance, it will be devastating for our industry. There’s no doubt about that.”
The NIVA has about 2,500 members nationwide and FitzGerald’s story is an anomaly. “For the most part, other people have closed or closed completely,” said Audrey Fix Schaefer, the group’s communications director.
The sites live on very narrow margins, he said, and a poll of members found that “90% said they would have to close permanently if there is no significant federal aid” within six months, he said.
But the organization, which didn’t exist when the pandemic started, monitored for others to position themselves to send 1.6 million emails to Congress to help (one way to do this and be more informed about the efforts is to save the stages. Com)
And the turning point is coming for the Save Our Stages Act and the Restart Act, two bipartisan-supported federal relief bureaucracies, and NIVA hopes they will be included in a comprehensive federal coronavirus relief bill, he said.
“We needed it to be last month,” Schaefer said. “It’s a challenge that can be frozen and wait until the end of the year because the sites will fall. It would be like a liver transplant for a corpse.
And even what happens at FitzGerald, which looks smart on paper and feels intelligent in person, is a panacea.
Like other club owners, Will Duncan is pushing himself. He bought an old van to do a continuous series of community concerts, with a musician and an amplifier in the back of the truck and truck touring communities through that lobby to get him through.
The existing series of loose live performances sees artists play for a modest guarantee, which is exceeded, Duncan said, through the voluntary tip that other people can leave on their checks or in the tip box, obviously visually near the stage.
The club is managing the outdoor capacity (of roughly 80 to 100) by letting patrons reserve tables, restaurant-style, although it always leaves room for walk-ups on a first-come basis. He’s added a guest chef burger series on Saturday nights (in addition to the Italian takeout available from neighboring Capri Ristorante, a FitzGerald’s tenant).
And in the last cry of the club’s 1980s under the name Deer Lodge, Duncan has added ice-cold drink dispensers for pigeons and Irish coffee concoctions.
The club won no less than the fact that former owners Bill and Kate FitzGerald, who sold the post to Duncan just before the pandemic closed in mid-March, returned several times, adding this Friday night to the elders. boyfriend Terry White.
Meanwhile, White, who once starred in FitzGerald’s van and is also scheduled to play at Montrose Saloon on August 28, said the exhibits were smart for singer-songwriters like him because other people are destined to stay in place. “Everyone separates, it becomes a listening environment,” he says.
But Duncan understands that this is something of a Brigadoon, a feeling that was only accentuated, he said, when the club attempted an internal display, with limited capacity, and not to repeat the experience.
“While FitzGerald enjoys this moment of outdoor live music, we know it’s temporary,” he said in a text message after a phone interview, inviting others to make a stop at Save Our Stages. “Our future, like that of all the small independent rooms today, is uncertain.
Even with all the activity, “we’re executing a profitability proposition,” Duncan said in the interview. “We’re still a few employees, which is great. More importantly, we stay in touch with other people who love this position and offer a live music option, and it’s as rare as hen teeth in those days.”
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