Why Live Music in Small Places Matters

Music is intimate. Seeing it should be, too.

Vanessa Torre
4 min readApr 20, 2019

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Photo by author — Better Oblivion Community Center at Crescent Ballroom — April 2019

There’s no huge stage. No major lighting design. The green room is probably weird. There’s most likely a smoke machine and a hand written set list taped to the floor.

You know if they’ll play your favorite song because you can see the set list. They’ll…

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Vanessa Torre

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