↓SUGGEST CORRECTIONS↓ FirePhilly.com (THE FIRE) Live Venues — TheXFactory.com Webcrawled Links Con­tent retrieved from: FirePhilly.com The Fire began in 1999 when Karen Lau­ria Sail­lant, opera singer, direc­tor and voice coach- who worked with Quest Love, Mut­lu, G. Love & Spe­cial Sauce, Amen Dunes, David Cope and oth­er artists, took the pool table out of the room of The Philadel­phia Bar & Grille, her husband’s shot and beer bar, and replaced it with a tiny stage where her orig­i­nal music singing stu­dents could per­form. With­in a short time, The Fire became a pio­neer­ing rock club in the North­ern Lib­er­ties sec­tion of Philadel­phia. Today The Fire is the old­est orig­i­nal Philadel­phia live music venue and a part of one of the most thriv­ing music scenes on the East Coast. Our stage has host­ed many artists on their rise to star­dom: John Leg­end, My Chem­i­cal Romance, Maroon 5, Jason Mraz, OK GO, Iron and Wine, Amos Lee, Cold War Kids, Rilo Kiley, Tegan and Sara, Bill Kreutz­mann (Grate­ful Dead), Santigold, Damien Rice, Dr. Dog, Schooly D, Sun Ra and The Arches­tra and more. The Fire is now Philly’s only female-owned venue. We are an artist-friend­ly estab­lish­ment with a pas­sion for devel­op­ing new tal­ent, both local, tour­ing and inter­na­tion­al- most recent­ly show­cas­ing the best bands/musicians from Scot­land, Italy, Brazil, Sin­ga­pore, Ire­land, Chile and oth­er for­eign coun­tries, there­by giv­ing local bands on the bill the oppor­tu­ni­ty to make friends and be host­ed in those coun­tries for future per­for­mances. The Fire will soon be orga­niz­ing tours for Philly’s top tal­ent in Italy and Italy’s best musi­cians in USA. Also, be on the look­out for upcom­ing pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment and net­work­ing events being offered exclu­sive­ly at The Fire, along with the estab­lish­ment of Philly’s first vir­tu­al real­i­ty broad­cast­ing venue. We are proud to host a very diverse cal­en­dar, with Mon­day as one of the longest-run­ning and most pas­sion­ate­ly sup­port­ive open mics in Philly. In fact, it was at our open mic in 2003, that John Leg­end start­ed his career. With reg­u­lar shows and Woman Crush Wednes­day #wcw once a month, at our Philadel­phia live music venue we fea­ture punk rock, coun­try, glam rock, shoe gaze, EDM, rock, folk, indie rock, punk, goth, heavy met­al and every­thing in between. Most shows we host are 21+. The Fire, soon to cel­e­brate its 20th year, is a warm, fun and friend­ly place to be. It is THE place in Philly to catch musi­cians on their way to star­dom. Stop in! You are only a stranger once!