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By Emily Ferguson, Westword | Is Boulder ready to get down? Dave Query, chef/owner of the Big Red F Restaurant Group, just expanded operations at the Velvet Elk Lounge to include live music, in hopes of jump-starting the town’s scene. “We’ve been trying to do a proper live-music venue for a long time now,” Query says. “We’ve been looking around and trying to figure out how to morph one of our places into it.”

Query and his team started looking before the pandemic, but then the outbreak of COVID-19 put their plans on hold. They had their eye on a space in front of the Velvet Elk Lounge and by their Post Chicken & Beer at 2037 13th Street that was occupied by Silver Vines Winery; after the winery succumbed to the challenges of the pandemic, they wound up acquiring the space in January and started construction a month later.

“The Velvet Elk Lounge has been open since 2017, but in a much smaller, really funky and not necessarily enjoyable format,” Query says. “We took the front space, knocked out a wall, and now it feels like a proper, Austin-style honky-tonk roadhouse, with a long, shotgun-style building and a stage in the back. It just feels right.”
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https://www.westword.com/music/velvet-elk-lounge-music-venue-boulder-14080338

[Thanks to Alex Teitz for contributing this article! http://www.femmusic.com]

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