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By Jon Solomon, Westword | Come April, hi-dive co-owner Curtis Wallach is going to have his hands full when he opens another music venue, Trinidad Lounge. Wallach, who moved to Trinidad in November, figured that since he wouldn’t be able to give his all to the hi-dive, as he’s been doing with co-owner Matty Clark since 2012, he wanted to hand over his talent-buying duties. Wallach wanted someone who’d been on the road and has seen booking from the other side.
“I just don’t trust promoters who haven’t seen it from the other end,” Wallach says.
So, he tapped 29-year-old George Cessna, who’s been the bassist for his dad’s band Slim Cessna’s Auto Club since 2019. Cessna also fronts his own band, the Snakes, was part of the Sterling Sisters, and performs solo as well.
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“Matty and I really don’t want the hi-dive to turn into an insular old-guy Denver rock club,” the forty-year-old Wallach says. “We were taking the pandemic to really see where we wanted the hi-dive to get steered next. And we wanted to remain relevant and have new blood in there, and that just keeps it exciting, and I think it keeps the finger on the pulse.”
Cessna has worked the door and as a bartender at the hi-dive since he moved back to Denver three years ago. The city was his hometown before he moved with his family to Rhode Island and Pittsburgh and then went to college in Baltimore. He played his first show when he was fifteen years old and started performing with his dad as a teenager.
As head talent buyer at the hi-dive, Cessna, who will share booking responsibilities with Clark and Maggie Moody, says he’ll try to add to Wallach and Clark’s decade-long legacy.
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Read Jon’s whole article here:
https://www.westword.com/music/george-cessna-takes-over-booking-the-hi-dive-11928887