Bob Corritore knows the parking lot outside the Rhythm Room is in a state of disrepair.
He hadn’t planned on doing anything about it in the next two months, though.
Not until he heard from his insurance company, which said it would cancel the insurance on the roots and blues club he’s been running on Indian School Road in Phoenix since the early ’90s if he didn’t get the parking lot repaved by the end of March — a $30,000 job he says he can’t afford to undertake right now.
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The Rhythm Room’s GoFundMe: ‘We could use the community’s help’
That’s how Corritore came to pin his hopes for the Rhythm Room’s future on GoFundMe, where he hopes to raise the $30,000 through a crowdfunding campaign.
“The Rhythm Room works very hard to present great music and has done so for 32 years with a slight break for COVID,” Corritore says.
“We have presented a lot of music for a relatively inexpensive price, at times taking losses just because they’re things that we feel are within the realm of what we need to do. And we could just use the community’s help to do this because there’s just not enough money coming in to cover this.”