Eaton Fire Mixed a music community. The southern Pasadena’s Sid the cat may help revive it

When Kyle Wilcson was wandering around the inner part of the new SID Hall in South Pasadina, he found reminders of the woman who made her beautiful hundred years ago.

Lucil Lloyd was prominent [Works Progress Administration] Walcirrson murals said: “I all worked among schools in this field, and there are pictures of her in men’s clothes that smoke in the rafters in the thirties. She had a tragic life, and it ended in suicide. We thought that all the paintings that she did here had gone.”

“But immediately before Christmas, one of the ceiling plates started to break. I looked up and I was like,” they are still there. “The light was still bright.”

There are still a few wonderful flower stencils, small sculptures and a stained glass window from Lloyd’s work in the former South Pasadina Elementary School Hall, which was closed to students in 1979. But it was expanded for the team in the Sid The Cat, a promoter of independent concerts that put offers across La for more than a decade. It will finally have the historic street, which was accurately restored from his dreams that open this fall.

Less than a year after the destruction of the Eiton Tadina fire, a neighborhood close by generations of musicians, the 500th place is a sign of the return of the new life to the scene of the arts in the region.

“The first thing we thought about when the fires occurred is” What can we do to help? “I wish we were already open, because we could have done food and offers to raise funds.” It is a very fragile environmental system that we are part of here. “

Before the epidemic, SID The CAT – a team of promoters including Wilkerson, Brandon Gonzalez and SEAN NEWMAN – believed that they had found their place at the Bootleg Theater on the southern edge of Echo Park and Historic Filipinoton. This nightclub was loved by the locals, but was closed in 2021 during the end of the world caused by Covid-19 in independent places. (The space is now 2220 arts + Archives).

Gonzales said: “We loved Bootleg, but DIY was from the beginning,” Gonzales said. “We have done our best with the tools and resources that we had.”

Keep a crowded time calendar for one -time performance in places such as the Hayland Park Ebel and Zipolone and even the Baker Baker Marionte Theater. Works such as Khruangbin, Bright Eyes, Wet Leg, Jackson Browne and Fiona Apple have played their concerts, but she was exhausting to manage and rebuild the new concert settings night after night. “Sometimes I felt that I was the owner of an ice cream store.” “I will go to the artist and be like,” What flavor you want? Want a sitting place? Do you want this aspect of the city? “We liked the presence of options, but we really wanted our beautiful audio room.”

In 2022, after they discovered an estimated 150 rooms from the deep western side to the Saint Gabriel Valley, they found South Pasadina Elementary School, which was planned to re -use in the direction of dining and nightlife in the center of the city of South Pasadina. (SID neighbors in space will include Villa sandwiches, Perling County and Coffeshop The Boy and The Bear).

Just steps away from the A line, and it is proud of an entered entrance with a separate tape, wide bathrooms, outdoor courtyard and parking, the space was unique in the amenities and its history, which played in the middle of it in the San Gabriel Valley already, already loved by the phoebe bridgers, which played many early cats, GRW EP.

It turns out that the physical structure of the previous school is clearly beneficial to the place-artists and the road crew will satisfy a washing machine and dryer in the green room and the pavement of truck loading that connects directly to the back of the theater.

“It has wonderful bones that we can receive and let her do something for her,” Wilcson said. “It highlights a different level of art to put works in a unique environment of nature and history. If you do so as long as we are, you hear horror stories on the road, and a space like this stands out on your tour. It contains everything you need in a neighborhood that can really walk.”

The team said that they did not take any investors or promoters of the partners to finance the place, and they paid for the lease and construction contract themselves from a mixture of ticket contracts, savings from the profits of the exhibition and Godundment.

“There are no financial supporters. We are not children who trust in children’s boxes and we do not have a group of real estate that earns money in this way,” said Welcson. “It is literally every ten cents we worked for, and this is frightening.”

I admired the nerve to risk everything to restore a historical place-and all parts-Shannon Lay, who is a singer and songwriter who frequent his projects in the cat’s places over the years.

“The promoters have a unique role in the music scene. They are the coordinators, the reliable source.” “I learned the other night that the place is completely self -funded and that it blew my mind.

“It is important for people to think that the offers are sacred, especially in the United States, where financial support is rare.” “It is a love of love. We have become our own safety network, and we make it work because we need it.”

For musicians and everyone in the northeast of Los Angeles, the need for a terrifying community safety network has become a terrifying clearly during the Iton fire in January. This catastrophe, along with Palisades Fire, was displaced by two distinguished together with deep roots in the music industry.

While prominent donations such as Fireaid and groups such as musicares have directed millions to affected societies, all the largest economic powers that crush local artists are still coherent. Since violent snow raids and tense political memory wear many Angelinus, musicians and masses that maintain a local cultural scene are wondering whether there is a future for them in Los Angeles

“It is difficult to persuade people to get out of their home and buy a ticket,” Wilcson said. “Tickets for concerts have risen, like everything else. We have built a society that people trust, but there are bomb nights, and we wonder why but most of the time does not do what art does not do.

The presence of a new place was beautifully restored for performance and gathering in fans and artists ’decisions,“ just a little.

“With the current administration, the fires and then the ice raids, and sometimes I just want to rise in the ball and be far away.” “But we realized that many of our society wanted to be together. We have published about the ice raids and people like,” How can you do performances? “Well, we really believe that people can be an inspiration to make change through artists who come across the rooms.

Although Sid The Cat Auditorium did not specify the exact opening date, nor reserve a set of offers, the team estimates estimated that the construction has ended about 85 %. With the grace of the South Pasadina city and local neighbors, they hope that they will avoid statements at the last minute or delay, even because the construction and employment costs of a historic building have risen after postpartum fires. The mayor of South Pasadina Janet Brown said that she is “very excited” around the new location, describing it “a historical space that has been beautifully renewed with an audio system and facilities in the twenty -first century.”

Finding these missing paintings from Lloyd was a sufficient evidence of the belief that, even after the tragedy and years of reconstruction, there is still a beauty worth sifting across the ashes.

Wilcson said: “After the fires went out to our shows and told us:” I am very happy to go out and forget a little about what happened to our city. “We are fleeing from many people, and they have those four hours where they can stay away from all of this, and enjoy music and cut them. It is a privilege and we do not consider it a matter of it. “