Iconic NYC Music Venue Booker And Promoter Theresa Chambers Dies At 64

NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) – New York Metropolis music icon Theresa Chambers handed away on Sunday (August eleventh) after a protracted sickness. Born in Manhattan on March 1st, 1960, she was 64. There was nobody within the music business at one time or one other who didn’t work together with her on the many venues throughout the town from the Nineteen Nineties by the 2000s. She booked expertise for a lot of of New York Metropolis’s famed venues.

Chambers was a basic a part of the dwell music group in New York Metropolis for many years, having labored at expertise company APA, Studio 54 as Steve Rubell’s assistant and as a expertise booker for promoter Ron Delsener Presents. She was additionally the founding booker at many legendary music venues comparable to The Bowery Ballroom, Mercury Lounge, Fez, and the BB Kings, amongst others, within the metropolis for a lot of rising British and American Artists. She was a terrific good friend to managers, labels and particularly the Artists she booked. As one individual stated this previous week, “Theresa was critically a badass with a coronary heart,” and “For years, she was the gatekeeper of nice up-and-coming expertise.”

Chambers was named Expertise Purchaser of the Yr on the Pollstar Awards in 1999. Along with her roles within the dwell music enterprise, she was an achieved supervisor for a lot of artists, together with, however not restricted to, Eire’s Sizzling Home Flowers and chart-topping One thing Occurs. She has additionally labored with David Bowie, Herbie Hancock, The Sugarcubes, and Sinead O’Connor.

Steve Ferguson, Music Agent at Paladin Artists, stated, “Theresa was considered one of a sort…a hustler, at all times preventing for her beliefs and the acts she labored with. And that infectious chuckle! I’ll really miss her.”

Lengthy-time supervisor and business veteran Dave Lory added, “Theresa not solely knew nice expertise, however she was an expensive good friend. I labored together with her whereas reserving the New Music Seminar for years, together with many artists I’ve managed. Theresa was among the many first folks to contact me when Jef Buckley disappeared within the Mississippi River. She cared for the folks she labored with, together with the Artists. She might be missed and was considered one of a sort. Nobody might be like her once more; Theresa was that particular.”

NY Music Trade Veteran/Music Publicist Fiona Bloom says, “I was so intimidated by her. Typically, I’d name, and when she picked up the cellphone, I’d begin shaking and lose my prepare of thought. I admired and revered her a lot. After actually going to a whole bunch of exhibits on the Mercury Lounge (a mixture of artists I repped or being a fan), we developed a friendship that included numerous conversations about new artists on the scene. Her favourite factor to speak about! She at all times had her finger on the heartbeat, with a number of the greatest ears within the biz. Fearless and Daring. I bear in mind she instructed me as soon as I used to be overly persistent to the purpose of irritation, however she additionally stated it’s the one solution to do your job, and also you get it achieved! We’ve misplaced a terrific soldier! A champion for the unsung and a real dwell music lover! NYC venues will really feel emptier with out her.”

Her kids will miss her: Ryan, James and Anna; her brothers Christopher, Paul and Daniel; and her beloved Aunt Colleen.

Chamber’s final yr was spent supporting the post-punk band that her daughter Anna fronted, Torture and the Desert Spiders. The household will announce a memorial service later within the yr, and an announcement might be made at the moment.

For extra data, contact Dave Lory at [email protected]

RIP.