After six years of indoor and outdoor shows, the Allegan County business will close Sept. 27, joining a roster of West Michigan concert venues that have closed over the past year. The Local Spins story.
The refrain is all too familiar when it comes to the spate of West Michigan music venues that have closed since the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago.
“Since our re-re-re-opening — multiples from original to post-Covid and a major flood from a broken sprinkler main — we never experienced a true rebound at our little venue. Overall, the attitude to visit a live music venue, at least local to Otsego, diminished greatly,” said Mark McPherson, owner of Liquid Note in Otsego, which announced earlier this week that the music venue and brewery would close its doors on Sept. 27, following outdoor concerts at its Creative Arts Festival, featuring The Bronk Bros., Chick & The Boomers, Kitten & The Tonics, Timeless and Dan Agne.
Opening in 2019 for indoor shows, the COVID pandemic just a year later came as a major setback for Liquid Note and many other venues, but McPherson moved ahead in 2023 with a new outdoor stage and venue that eventually expanded to a capacity of 1,200 — with performances by The Verve Pipe, Chris Canas Band, Duke Tumatoe, The Claudettes and many more…