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Musicians around the world raise money for SF s most famous Irish bar, Plough and the Stars
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The Plough and the Stars sits empty and quiet as it has remained shut for an entire year, after San Francisco closed down bars during the shelter-in-place order in March 2020.Patricia Chang / Special to SFGATE
When Irish bar The Plough and the Stars was forced to close in the first days of San Francisco’s shelter-in-place order in March 2020, no one could have predicted that the shutdown would last a year.
Owner Séan Heaney certainly didn’t.
Heaney is touring me around the bar on a Monday afternoon just days before St. Patrick’s Day, chairs and stools piled onto the tables and dark wood bar. The elevated stage, where countless musicians have played, is illuminated and empty, a far cry from the Irish fiddlers and bluegrass bands that have taken center stage over the decades, filling the bar with their music.