A Syracuse music venue is planning to say goodbye with a final “blowout” weekend of concerts.
The Jugg on Teall is closing permanently next week. The Lyncourt bar, known for regularly featuring live music, will kick out the jams this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, before shutting down for good at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 15.
Hard rock/metal bands Caustic Method, The Three, Drawn By Blood, and Tragic Intent will perform at The Jugg on Friday, Jan. 9. Doors open at 7 p.m.; admission is $10.
Lenny Lashley, a Boston-based punk artist, will play “music for emotionally disturbed children” on Saturday, Jan. 10, with special guests Live Laugh Lobotomy, Pale Green Stars, and Perilous. Doors open at 7 p.m.; admission is $10.
BSG, The Grandstand Jockeys and Plastic Sunface will take the stage Sunday, Jan. 11, according to John Viggiano, who does marketing for The Jugg. Doors open at 5 p.m.; admission is $10.
The Jugg on Teall announced it was closing less than two months after hosting a music festival to raise money for Jesse Buckley, who co-owns the venue with his wife Aimee. Also known as “Buck” and “Coach AutoTune,” Jesse was diagnosed with stage 3 voice box cancer (laryngeal cancer) and his treatment and medical bills left them struggling to keep the business alive.
“With Coach’s health the priority, we need to take a break and regroup. Because this doesn’t exist without him,” The Jugg’s Facebook page said Friday. “He’s dedicated every one of those 40+ years, starting as drummer, then a funder, a manager, a hustler, the very dreamer who never gave up, the man who gave this community of artists a blank canvas to draw on and a playground that was safe, accepting, and a little off kilter to run free, be supported, and express their art without limits or censors or rules. So, you better believe we’re not giving up.”
The Jugg, located at 2026 Teall Ave, Syracuse, N.Y., also blamed other factors, including “an untenable situation with our landlord and lease… a s—-y parking situation [and] not much in the way of community support even though we kept this corner safer than it’s ever been.”
Viggiano, also known as Johnny Vig, insisted that the closure won’t mean the end of The Jugg. He plans to keep the brand going online with videos from past music performances on YouTube, plus original content like “Grumpy Mayor” on thejugg.net/tv.
“This has been an incredible run and it’s not over,” said a statement signed by Coach. “There are so many people to thank from our frontline of dedicated employees who have done their best to hold this dream together over these difficult final months to all of the artist who have come through here and contributed to creating this living, breathing space for Rock ’n’ Roll to not only exist, but where it was literally conceived, polished, birthed, and performed on what we believe is a legendary stage. And of course, to our loyal patrons who have become so much more, a family. The JUGG Family. So, this, you see, can never actually end. A family, indeed this whole Rock ’n’ Roll community that’s converged right here in Lyncourt, that embraced us will come with us wherever next we go. The JUGG Family stays together…”
“However, this is not the end of The JUGG itself. This is simply the end of this chapter on Teall Avenue. We’ll be back. Not quite sure when, but lean in, believe in. We’ll do it again… Come get your last taste of The JUGG on Teall. Give this place a hug, some love, because we had some damn good times here and created art together here.”
For more information, visit thejugg.net, instagram.com/thejuggonteall or facebook.com/TheJUGGonTeall.
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