Portland, ME

Root Wild Kombucha

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Kombucha tasting room and community venue hosting current bluegrass jams and other small live-music events. A community-oriented tasting room that uses live acoustic bluegrass jams as part of its event programming. The venue’s live-music mix covers Bluegrass, Acoustic, Folk, Community jam, providing a useful reference point for bands and solo performers considering the room. Because the space already presents live performers, artists can assess it as an active music destination rather than a general room with no performance history. Root Wild Kombucha is located at 135 Washington Ave, Portland, ME 04101. Artists evaluating the space should focus on how closely their show format matches the venue’s existing live-music pattern, since that is the clearest indicator of fit available here. For performers building a routing plan, the venue’s established live-music activity provides a concrete reason to consider it alongside other active rooms in the market. That makes the venue especially relevant for musicians looking for rooms with an existing live-performance audience and a clearly established entertainment format.

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207-303-9043

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21+
Genres
Acoustic, Bluegrass, Folk
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135 Washington Ave, Portland, ME 04101, United States
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207-303-9043
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