Thanks again to our Get Your PHX February host,  Tertio Wine Bar and the folks from Empty Glass Wine Company, for an incredible presentation. I expected a much lower turn-out because we were asking folks to pay ahead for the four-course meal. Yet we had a very strong showing and we all walked out of there with a new appreciation of what Virginia Senior and her crew are capable of.

For March, I’m very excited to announce that we are going to get an honest to goodness preview of a new downtown venue before they open (its been a while, huh?). When you come to the next Get Your PHX on March 21st, you will not only get a glimpse of the new Last Exit Live before its official opening, but you’ll also help kick off the local stage feature of the McDowell Mountain Music Festival.

Here’s the skinny: The McDowell Mountain Music Festival (MMMF), in a belated recognition that downtown is the place to be these days, will move its line-up of shows to Margaret T. Hance Park, starting March 22nd and ending March 24th. Last Exit Live, as the newest official Local Stage for the event is coordinating with the Get Your PHX Team to bring you a Local Stage Pre-party and the soft opening of Last Exit Live.

Here is what we have lined up for you already:

1) Our friends at Blue Sky Airport Parking are hosting this event. They are a locally-owned, Local First Arizona member company. They are generously helping arrange specials from one of our local food truck friends, to be announced. Their active participation in improving their neighborhood downtown has brought them much acclaim and a number one rating on Yelp.
2) Last Exit Live’s owner Brannon Kleinlein is offering an incredible special on drinks: $2 domestic beers and $3 imports from 5:30 to 7:30, just for Get Your PHX attendees. After 7:30 the drinks will still be only $3 for domestics and $4 for imports.
3) Brannon is booking two local Phoenix bands, to start at 8:30, to help kick off this MMMF Local Stage for a weekend of incredible new music. Please stay tuned, as we will announce this over the course of the next couple weeks.
4) We already have raffle items for you from AccountingPros and Local First Arizona for our monthly FREE raffle. You know how this goes. I expect to find more goodies for the raffle before the big event.

I also really want you to meet Brannon in person. Our goal with the Get Your PHX events is to celebrate the people who make downtown better every day. You will hear more from Brannon. For now, here’s the basics: Last Exit Live used to be in Tempe from 2003 to 2009. Brannon sold it in 2009, it closed under the new owners and he has re-started the venue in downtown. As Brannon reported to the Downtown Devil, he wanted to be part of the growing scene downtown and felt certain that this size venue (prevalent in Tempe) would fill a niche downtown. 

As I think we all do, Brannon believes that we need to be re-building inward rather than sprawling outward. He is putting his money where his mouth is. We want to support that. So, please come by. Also, if you want to get tickets to the McDowell Mountain Music Festival, please order them through the Last Exit Live website. This will help Brannon’s business and ensure he can give us a great bands and experiences downtown.

More on Last Exit Live:
New Times
College Times 
Java Magazine 
More New Times
 
March Get Your PHX:
The Local Stage Kickoff at Last Exit Live, Sponsored by Blue Sky Parking
Thursday, March 21st, 5:30 to close
717 South Central Ave  Map It
Phoenix, AZ 85004