1st Street Bar describes itself as classy but perpetually game for a party, with cold beer, cocktails, games, sports, and a sense of humor about leather-bound libraries. The schedule supports the claim: music open mic Tuesday, comedy open mic Monday, and live shows Wednesday through Saturday. That is a working-bar calendar with several ways for an artist to get familiar with the room before aiming at a weekend slot. The venue provides a simple PA system, but the booking note wisely advises confirming the specifics. Do that. Ask about speakers, monitors, microphones, inputs, engineer support, stage or floor area, soundcheck, volume, load-in, parking, set length, payment, food, merchandise, and settlement. “Simple PA” is not bad news; it is a phrase that needs a follow-up question before your drummer arrives with twelve channels of ambition. Public review excerpts point to pool, beer, a dive-bar feel, and a friendly hangout atmosphere. This is a social room that can suit rock, punk, garage, indie, blues, covers, comedy-adjacent music, and any act that can give the bar momentum without ordering everyone to stop having fun. The range makes it worth asking how the crowd differs between a Wednesday show and a Saturday night. Booking is by email. Send direct live-performance links, preferred dates, lineup, genre, rate, draw, and a concise note about the set. 1st Street is a flexible bar opportunity for performers who can work a real room, use the open mics intelligently, and make a simple PA sound like a sensible choice.
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Bar Sierra is the live-music corner of the Sierra Nevada Resort, a contemporary California restaurant with local fare, regional brews, and sixteen craft taps competing for your attention. Shows generally land Friday and Saturday from 7 to 9 PM: prime weekend time, compact set window, and a built-in hotel-and-dinner audience that may have arrived for trout and accidentally discovered your chorus. Use the public email route with a clean booking package: live video, lineup, genre, likely draw, available dates, set length, and a short explanation of how your act fits an early-evening restaurant show. Confirm whether the hotel supplies PA, monitors, microphones, engineer, stage lighting, soundcheck time, backline, payment, meals, drinks, ticketing, merch placement, and load-in instructions. The sources do not spell out the house system, which is not a mystery to solve by showing up with one cable and spiritual confidence. Public feedback focuses on an easy location, clean spacious rooms, and friendly staff. That suggests a professional hospitality setting rather than a midnight sweatbox. Bring material that can hold a dining-room crowd without becoming background upholstery: roots, folk, blues, acoustic rock, singer-songwriter sets, jazz, Americana, and smart small-band music make sense. If the room gets livelier after dessert, be ready to lean into it. Bar Sierra suits a touring or regional act that can make two hours feel like a proper night out. Be polished, ask the production questions early, and leave room for the beer drinkers to remember the hook on their walk back to the hotel.
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- 250
- Age policy
- All Ages
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- All Genres
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- 202 Old Mammoth Road, 93546, United States
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- (760) 934-2515
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