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Bloomington record store aims to uplift local music scene
TIMOTHY EGGERT , The Pantagraph
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) Passion-driven risk and plucky altruism.
That’s the thesis behind “Reckless Saint,” a budding venture into vintage music, stereo equipment and ephemera with a retail storefront that aims to empower the local music scene.
Helmed by Scott McCormick, a local musician who plays the guitar, sings, writes songs, and for whom music “has been a passion my whole life,” the store opened April 2 in downtown Bloomington.
“A reckless saint is someone who is trying to influence the world around them for good, and that often takes a little bit of boldness to do that,” McCormick, 61, told me during a recent visit.
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At first blush, a pandemic doesn’t sound like a great time to open a gallery. But if there is such a thing as a silver lining when it comes to COVID-19, the owners of Hangar Art Co. seem to have found one.
As the name suggests, Hangar is big 4,500 square feet, to be exact.
Santino Lamancusa had something much smaller in mind when he was looking for a shop to sell his photography. And then he came across the former Half Hazard Press suite on East Jefferson Street in downtown Bloomington.
Looking at those big blank walls got Lamancusa thinking about a piece of art he’d recently bought online from local painter Jeff Bess.