Photo: Frank Schultz | By Patricia Calhoun, Westword | Frank Schultz spent the last year “getting my ass kicked,” he says. But now he’s back, working that ass off on a couple of projects. Next week, Otre Vez, the Mexican cantina he opened at 610 16th Street back in 2017, then closed during the pandemic, will finally reopen. And then Schultz will bring back the Soiled Dove. No, not to the space at 1949 Market Street, where it originally opened almost thirty years ago, and not to the legendary Lowry location built from the ground up two decades ago that permanently shut its doors in 2024.
Instead, the Soiled Dove will land in Cherry Creek, at Chopper’s Sports Grill, Schultz’s popular bar at 80 South Madison Street, where he’s adding a stage and a state-of-the art sound system. Two months from now, he’ll launch a lineup of live music there most weekends, starting with the Railbenders on May 9, with an Opie Gone Bad reunion the following weekend. “We’ll start booking it slow, then getting it rolling. We’ll get back into some of the portfolio we had before,” Schultz says.
The Soiled Dove started out in LoDo in 1997 with dueling pianos, then became a live venue in 1999, when you could see Bruce Hornsby for $50. “Today it costs $50 to park there,” Schultz says. “It was a cool place in the wrong spot.”
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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. patricia.calhoun@westword.com
[Thanks to Alex Teitz for contributing this article! https://www.femmusic.com]