Live music enthusiasts with a penchant for jazz are set to get a new venue, which will open early this month on Glasgow’s Hope Street.
Swing, which is owned by former marketeer Emma Marsh, will be open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Emma told DRAM, “It will have more of a supper club vibe, and we will have our own resident band and performers. They are all well experienced and many of them have played at Ronnie Scott’s.” The new bar/club is on the site of the former Crow Bar, but that is all that remains the same. Says Emma, “It’s small and intimate, but opulent too. The bar had been closed for four years and had damp issues, so we have had to strip it right back and totally refurbish it. We have also put in a stage and facilities for the performers. It will be a different style of bar, and I am bringing some of my fashion and marketing background into play. For instance the cocktail girls will all wear vintage, high fashion, outfits. It’s not just the bar staff that are dressing for the occasion food will come in the shape of a range of canapes. Swing is at 183A Hope Street.
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