"This is basically the music community's new place," says Glassman.
Glassman was joined at the ribbon by Mayor Kathy Sheehan, Common Councilman Ron Bailey, CBID Executive Director Anthony Capece, and Vice President of Marketing and Development for WAMC, Dona Frank-Federico.
"We don't want to be a city with a convention center, we want to be a convention center city, and that means having places for people to go that they can't go to anywhere else, places that make Albany unique," says Mayor Kathy Sheehan at the event. Sheehan pointed out that venues like The Low Beat are those places. "Central Avenue has so much to offer," she continued. "It's going to be such an important part of creating that culture that brings people here."
Glassman owned Valentine’s for 16 years, served as the General Manager at the Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio during its formative years, and is also an honorary member of bands from across the region and the darling of music critics and bloggers alike. He is humbled by all the attention he received in the wake of his announcement that he was closing his former bar Valentine’s and even more impressed by the way the music community turned out to support him in his new venture, The Low Beat.
The Low Beat is located at 335 Central Avenue in Albany.
