The Living Room to Close in February – Live Venue with Studio DNA Starts PledgeMusic Campaign
The Living Room, a musical magnet for the Lower East Side for 15 years, has made it known that it will be closing its doors at 154 Ludlow Street at the end of February.
Steve Rosenthal and Jennifer Gilson will have to relocate the highly influential Living Room when February ends.
Founded at its original Stanton street location in 1998, and in operation at its current home on Ludlow street since 2003, The Living Room was created by husband/wife team Jennifer Gilson and Steve Rosenthal – the latter known through the audio scene as the owner of the world-class downtown studio The Magic Shop.
Rosenthal, a 3-time GRAMMY Award-winning producer/engineer, made sure that The Living Room served as a benchmark for live sound, equipping the listening spaces with studio-grade ATC monitors. The result was a venue that was extremely attractive for singer-songwriters of the elite and emerging variety including Norah Jones, Ron Sexsmith, Jesse Harris, Joseph Arthur, Richard Julian, and Chris Thile to name just a very few.
Priceless is their extensive performance archive – recorded in very high fidelity live audio, again in keeping with Rosenthal’s status as owner of the Magic Shop, just a few blocks over in SoHo. Check out the streaming performances, and you’ll realize that the Living Room was as inspiring a place to play music as it was to listen to it.
Gilson and Rosenthal attributed the closing to skyrocketing rent at their current location, while they are “actively negotiating” a new space.
The club is inviting their fans and all music lovers to help fund with the move, and considerable construction costs of building a club from scratch, by visiting their Pledge Music crowdfunding campaign at http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/livingroom.
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