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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Grand Annex is a 150-seat listening room connected to Grand Vision’s performance world, with most shows on fall, winter, and spring Fridays and Saturdays. The public feedback describes an intimate venue that brings in serious talent, which is exactly what a good listening room should do: make an artist feel close without making the show feel small. Artists should send a full asset package—video, website, images, EPK, and current material—through the public booking route. Rental inquiries go through a separate channel, so know whether you are asking to be presented or proposing an event rental. Those are different conversations, and confusing them is how musicians end up explaining their ticketing plan to someone who thought they were simply asking for a date. The venue provides full sound and lighting. Confirm PA, monitors, microphones, backline, engineer, lighting, stage plot, load-in, soundcheck, set length, ticketing, settlement, merch, hospitality, accessibility, and the preferred season for your project. An intimate 150-seat room rewards a focused production. Nobody needs a stadium show compressed into a tasteful little theater like luggage in an overhead bin. Acoustic music, folk, jazz, chamber pop, roots, singer-songwriters, global music, and other listener-forward formats are the natural lane. That does not mean boring. It means the songs have to work without a crowd chanting over them. Grand Annex suits artists with a complete professional package and a show strong enough to hold a close room. Send the assets, respect the season, and give the sound and light team something worth amplifying.
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- Taran
- Role
- Talent Buyer
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- Capacity
- 150
- Capacity notes
- seated.
- Age policy
- All Ages
- Genres
- All Genres
- Sound & production
- House sound system
- Address
- 434 W. 6th Street, 90731, United States
- Venue phone
- (310) 833-4813
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