The Chocolate Bar is a downtown Grand Island café with a big-city visual style, chocolate, cake, coffee, sandwiches, and infrequent Thursday-through-Saturday music. That makes this a selective small-room opportunity, not a weekly grind. The room’s public reviews praise the original modern design, coffee, desserts, and a friendly café experience—exactly the kind of environment where an artist needs nuance, strong songs, and a setup that does not make the cake slices fear for their lives. Booking is by email. Performers supply their own sound system and all gear, so a compact solo act, duo, jazz combo, acoustic project, folk artist, singer-songwriter, or small roots band likely has the most natural fit. Advance power, PA size, speaker placement, stage or floor area, load-in, parking, volume, set time, breaks, pay, food arrangement, merchandise, and settlement. The listing does not publish an engineer, backline, ticketing model, or compensation terms. Send direct music or live-video links, desired Thursday, Friday, or Saturday dates, lineup size, rate, and a concise account of the show. Infrequent programming means the pitch should answer why this particular night and this particular room make sense. The Chocolate Bar is a stylish café date for a self-contained act with good volume judgment and material that can make coffee, dessert, and a downtown evening feel a little more intentional. Bring a neat rig and songs with a little sweetness but no filler.
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With room for roughly 70 and a 21+ policy, The Glass Bar is part of the live-music circuit in Grand Island, Nebraska. This dive bar hosts live music on Friday and Saturday nights. The The Glass Bar calendar is open to All Genres. The Glass Bar accepts booking inquiries through Facebook. At The Glass Bar, a house PA is provided. Before confirming The Glass Bar, settle the running time and any venue-specific promotion or settlement terms. Show inquiries for The Glass Bar are handled by its talent buyer function. Any remaining detail for The Glass Bar should be treated as show-specific and confirmed before commitment.
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- 70
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- 21+
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- All Genres
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- 1009 W. North Front Street, 68801, United States
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- (308) 398-4527
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