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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit stripped-down sets, an intimate setting just a different space.
Lake Street Dive filmed its Tiny Desk (home) concert where the band is most at home: on stage at the biggest little venue in NYC, Pete s Candy Store. All five band members managed to squeeze onto a stage no larger than the actual Tiny Desk to shine a spotlight on the Save Our Stages Act. Congress passed the $15 billion grant program last December as part of the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill. In the middle of the home concert, bassist Bridget Kearny recalls driving to the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn for a gig at Pete s, then driving back to Boston the very same night, long before they ever sold out Radio City Music Hall on the other side of the East River.