One of the newer, but highly-beloved music clubs in Central Texas is having to abruptly close due to financial constraints. The business isn’t historic, but the building it occupies is, and the club was opened to bring some culture and night life to the small town of Martindale (pop. 1,200). Duett’s Texas Club has dutifully done this very thing since opening its doors officially in October of 2023, but will celebrate its final day on Saturday, March 28th.
“We’ve been struggling since day one,”
says co-owner Katie Grametbaur, who operated Duett’s with her husband Ryan. “We’ve been bootstrapping this since the first six months in, literally running week to week, sometimes day to day, hour to hour in some cases. We never thought we would have the opportunity to own and run a business like Duett’s. We love it. We love the community, and the people, and what we’ve created. But unfortunately Duett’s is a big business, and it takes a lot of money to run it, and in small town Martindale, it’s hard to sustain it.”…