Since 1985, KUVO has provided a rare blend of music & news. We broadcast the best in Jazz, Latin Jazz & Blues in addition to 17 locally produced, culturally diverse programs.
As we continue our Heroes series, we turn this month to our stages. We spoke to 9 representatives from vastly different kinds of venues. Some are solely for music, some for theater and opera, some for comedy, some a mix of it all. While the purposes of these spaces might be quite disparate, each person we spoke with truly believes in the importance of music and performance in their communities.
Before the pandemic hit last March, the practice spaces at Dog House Music Studios in Lafayette were booked two months out for acts slated to play Red Rocks and the Pepsi Center, including the Motet, BoomBox and Lotus. But just as national tours and local shows started to cancel, the business, which Gary Lennox originally opened about fifteen years ago, closed down under COVID-19 restrictions.
About a week before lockdown, some bands approached new owners Kenny Vasko and his wife, Liz Vasko, who bought Dog House about two years ago, about livestreaming from the building. Over the next two months, the Vaskos spent $10,000 on two stages and lighting systems, turned their largest rehearsal studio into a livestream studio, and piped high-speed fiber-optic Internet into the building.