Holsteins' demise is one for the ages

Chicago Sun-Times | December 6, 1987| | Copyright

Although it is one of the country's most empathetic music rooms, what has sunk Holsteins is an inability to cultivate a new audience. The club's image is set in plaid shirts, pipe smoke and receding hairlines.

This stereotyping isn't the fault of Ed Holstein, who in recent years has booked the club with adventure and passion, with a range of performers from Ramblin' Jack Elliott to Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper. Rather, it's a problem of the city's categorized and parochial tastes. The chances of a Holsteins' audience crossing over to Cabaret Metro are about the same as Joni Mitchell's ...

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