Venues come and they go. Such are the ups and downs of the local music scene. Here comes another down.
The Lucky 13, a rock bar and concert venue, is closing after this weekend. Lucky 13, located in central Fresno near Highway 99 at 4113 W. Swift Ave., opened in 2004 and was a month away from celebrating five years.
Owner Lucinda Barnett says the economy has squeezed her out of business. "It's just not enough," she says of the money the venue was pulling in. "It's been my love. I'm a singer/songwriter myself. The focus was never the alcohol. It was always a venue to me."
Final shows are lined up for this weekend. On Friday night, local acts Synezra, Blackbird, Hot Shade and This Planet, Prelude will be playing.
On Saturday, for Lucky 13's final night, Los Angeles band Giant State headlines at 8 p.m. with Grooveyard, Space Hooker and Counter-Clockwise also on the bill.
Great venue with a great sound man (Spotman) to boot! It'll be missed.
Bummer. Bazil played there twice and they were awesome to us. Sad to see them go.
Aww! That blows! Thats just down the street from my home.
It was nice that there was something out there for people on the Westside/Highway City area to go and check out bands. Hopefully somebody will reopen it or something else out there, when the time is right.
The article doesn't say if the place is up for sale or not. It would be great for someone to reopen it and bring it back to it's original state and get great bands in there every weekend, Spotman really could make it sound great in there. The only way to do that would be to buy the existing liquor license, and all the great sound & lighting gear they had in there.
Does anybody know if she plans to sell?