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Listeners take in a performance by underground rock legend Jad Fair in late March.
But everyone there was in thrall to the music. Unlike attendees of a bar or club show, they really listened. "It has a very special architecture," Parr said."Whether that was intentional or not, I don't know. But we think it should be embraced as a venue by the city. The dream didn't have to do with us being able to program it. We just thought 'this should happen.'"During concerts, performers stand across the river, and the bridge itself provides a natural echo effect.
And though Fair might be used to playing to larger crowds, he brought a solid turnout to Echo Bridge. Most of the 100 available tickets, priced at a $25 suggested donation, sold out in advance. "It was like sound in HD," Wheeler said."It was so beautiful. I had the idea [for the Echo Bridge venue] and brought it to Justin. I said, 'This needs to be something you do.'"
"It's a way to trick these people into coming to playing for us, to share this special place," Wheeler said."In order to get the bigger names, we knew we needed all that money to go to them." That aspect, he added, initially surprises some of the artists."They don't believe it. They think it's some kind of scam.""We'd like to line up sponsors," he said."We'd still sell the tickets, but the sponsors pay the band.
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