Towne Crier Cafe in Beacon has run jazz, folk, and blues since 1972 in a 100-seat room. Pete Seeger played here; Thursday open mic draws serious locals.
Phil Ciganer opened the Towne Crier on November 21, 1972, in a converted stagecoach stop in Beekman, inspired by the Greenwich Village folk clubs he used to frequent but built somewhere less crowded. The club moved to Pawling about fifteen years later and added dinner service, then made its final move to Beacon's Main Street in 2013, where it's been since: a 100-seat main stage room with brick walls and exposed beams, plus a smaller Salon Stage where dinner and live music share the same space.
Fifty-plus years in, the booking still leans folk, jazz, blues, and rock, and the venue's reputation for putting national names in a room this size holds up. Pete Seeger played here regularly, and Richard Thompson, Pat Metheny, Bela Fleck, and Alison Krauss have all worked the same stage a random Tuesday crowd gets to sit ten feet from.
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