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Andrew Gilbert March 16, 2021Updated: March 17, 2021, 6:17 pm
Musicians Craig Ventresco and Meredith Axelrod perform over a YouTube livestream from their apartment kitchen in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood on March 5. Photo: Sarahbeth Maney, Special to The Chronicle
The venue is tiny, the lighting bare-bones, and the makeshift sound system includes a bouncing microphone that often threatens to put out an eye. But Craig Ventresco and Meredith Axelrod aren’t complaining. They’re right at home.
Seated side by side in the kitchen of their North Beach apartment, the couple has provided a musical lifeline throughout the pandemic, delivering a deliriously entertaining mix of forgotten pop songs, rags, blues, novelty numbers and standards every night at 8 p.m. In the buildup to their 365th show on Wednesday, March 17, they’ve been promising more of the same namely virtuosic guitar interplay and vocals redolent of Tin Pan Alley, circa 1925.
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