A year ago, Mike Koh was busily running the show at the legendary Jackson Inn in Wilmington ― literally.
He booked the bands, promoted the concerts, made the flyers and engineered the live performances from his inglorious perch wedged along the back wall near the bathrooms of the bar, which dated back to the 1700s.
But then the unthinkable happened: the Jackson Inn was sold and closed for good, leaving one of the only original music barroom stages in the state dark and Koh with no place to host his indie rock-heavy slate of Delaware acts.
Instead of packing up his Koh Show production and finding another home ― a tough thing to find post-pandemic as the number of similar small Delaware venues have slowly dried up ― he decided to go digital.
Even before Jackson Inn hosted its marathon finale with Koh at the helm, he launched Koh Show Live, a weekly livestream concert from the basement of his home in Fairfax off Concord Pike.
Gone is the swirl of music fans, the clinking bar bottles and hustling bartenders. In its place emerged a one-stop shop (kohshow.live) to sample Delaware’s original music world from the comfort of your sofa.