GALESVILLE, Wis. – The president of the board that runs the city-owned Old Main performance venue Diane Thatcher, hopes to schedule events by 2024 in the now-condemned third floor. A structural problem in the 80-seat performance area was discovered in April. The floor was suddenly bouncy. Now the city will need to underwrite repairs. perhaps with a fund-raising campaign. Thatcher said. The third floor has a 1916 Steinway grand piano and a vintage Hammond C3 organ, Thatcher said that small intimate concerts on the third floor typically had a reception or intermission for people toget to know the performer. “That is something that should never go away,” Thatcher told the Winona Post. Meanwhile, evets are on schedule on the first and second floors.
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Intimate venue. The third floor performance area put musicians and audience in close proximity.