Nonprofit St. Paul music venue closing after burglars steal audio products

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – A Twin Towns youth tunes charity is working with a double reduction.

Burglars hit their St. Paul venue correct soon after they made a decision to consolidate their operations at their Burnsville site.

Twin Cities Catalyst New music set out to strike a chord with little ones.

“Our mission is to assistance young individuals see and expertise and take part in new music in the Twin Towns,” mentioned Beth Mammenga, Twin Cities Catalyst Tunes govt director.

At The Garage main room and The Lounge in Burnsville, they open up their doorways to youthful musicians of every single stripe.

“Indie rock, alt-rock, steel, hip hop, rap,” claimed Mammenga.

Declan McKenna, Nur-D, Mod Sun, and Undesirable Undesirable Hats are some of the functions to achieve a larger audience after participating in the all ages-no substances venue.

But The Garage is far more than just a location.

The nonprofit helps bands put alongside one another albums and hosts an after-school method educating hundreds of little ones a year how to create and document tracks.

They aimed to do the similar when they commenced The Treasury in St. Paul in the course of the pandemic.

“Constructed the stage and the partitions and the loos and everything,” Mammenga stated.

Stay concerts commenced in April 2022, but Twin Cities Catalyst Music introduced this month they’d near The Treasury at the finish of Oct due to the fact of basic safety and safety concerns.

Not very a week later on, a burglary proved people worries legitimate.

In the generation space, the burglars stole a digital audio method, and then out in the key space they stole all the audio products they could carry — a full of $12,000 really worth of tools.

“The group, of course, is really shook up and devastated that this took place,” Mammenga explained.

St. Paul police convey to FOX 9 they’ve manufactured no arrests, but the investigation is even now lively. The nonprofit’s board president, Shannon Robinson, states the crooks also stole their likelihood at expressing a good goodbye to the space, wherever they continue to experienced 4 a lot more concert events prepared.

“And we did have ideas for that gear,” Mammenga mentioned.

The digital soundboard was intended to replace an analog program at The Lounge, and they ended up arranging to use the speakers at pop-up concert events in St. Paul, wherever they’d like to preserve a existence.

For now, even though, all the shows are moved to Burnsville.

And supporters are drumming up assist through fundraisers at GoFundMe and at Eastlake Craft Brewery.