When launching an upscale music venue, acoustics are crucial — even more so in a building that wasn’t constructed with quality sound in mind.
The Exchange Music Hall passed the test on Dec. 31, in a combination New Year’s Eve party, grand opening and preview of what’s to come.
The venue, part of a restaurant and hotel complex inside the 113-year-old First National Exchange Bank in downtown Roanoke, welcomed more than 1,000 people for a rock-and-soul double bill. The audience members walked into the bank’s former lobby, now festooned with acoustic tile, floor carpeting and banners draped across the ceiling high above…