Presenting live music and seeing happy faces, both from audiences and bands – that’s what it’s all about.Īudiences return to yesteryear when the Mauch Chunk Opera House features silent film accompanied by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra on Sunday, October 12. The biggest thing for me personally is that it makes it possible to occupy a little piece of the music business. We all work in a big circle, each depending on the other. Meanwhile, each weekend, our events help make it possible for restaurants to open, hotels to get booked, innumerable tradespeople to get work, and a small town in Pennsylvania to prosper. For musicians, they’re simply glad to be able to perform live, and a paying gig, whether tribute or original, pays the bills as well as makes an audience happy. Until that happens, when I get up and march off to the day job, I wish I still didn’t have to do it, but I’m grateful for the work. Nonetheless, like the bands we book, we keep trying for the big time. It would be beautiful if all their original projects ended up rocking the world and getting them great-paying gigs, but, well, I probably won’t be wearing Yankee pinstripes either. Most of the original bands we book these days at the Mauch Chunk Opera House can thank tribute bands for the paying work, and also vice versa – because it’s all part of how the doors to our venue stay open, hence making it possible for people to support live music.ġ00% of the tribute band members that work here are also members of other bands, some tribute, some original.
But like any business, things change, and you adapt. Music, both live and on vinyl, provided me with life-changing experiences that I draw upon to this day.ī ack then, I had never heard of a tribute band. My first live concert was at the Fillmore East, an experience I still think about all the time. People can certainly be saddened by the music industry these days.
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