After fourteen years of booking shows in the underground electronic-music scene and building up Denver as the bass capital of the world, Nicole Cacciavillano says that her latest venture, the Black Box, at 314 East 13th Avenue, isn't going anywhere. Not even after losing revenue and being saddled by debt: She's not going to surrender to COVID-19.
But she knows that she and everybody else in the local music scene who make it through the pandemic will have a tough time getting back to the economic success they enjoyed before March 2020. "Our industry has been so significantly impacted that everyone is in debt," Cacciavillano says. "We’re going to be working for years to get out of the debt this pandemic has put people into. ... If I have to sell my house, I'm selling my house and I'm living in my car. Luckily, we haven’t gotten there yet."