Carioca Cafe, the legendary punk hangout better known as Bar Bar, is one of downtown’s last free-standing dives. The owners are asking the community to help keep it open.
Denver dive bar Carioca Cafe and Bar — known by most as Bar Bar — needs help as it faces forced closures and new licensing requirements, grinding to a halt the live music events that have kept the place in business in recent years.
“We’ve scraped by through COVID shutdowns without a fundraiser, but now we really need your help,” wrote Richard Granville, organizer of a new, $10,000 campaign aimed at shoring up the beloved dive on the east end of downtown Denver, onGranville is a local musician and bartender at Bar Bar who launched his campaign on Monday. It’s already netted more than a third of its target funds, with $3,701 as of this writing and 87 individual backers.
All funds for the cash-only, century-old business will go to covering rent, utilities, and other basic bills; buying stock to sell at the bar; paying fees associated with required licensing for live music events; and finally, maintenance and renovations — “particularly what is necessary to meet the aforementioned licensing requirements,” Granville wrote.
Granville had not responded to requests for comment as of this writing, but Carioca’s mission is clear. “We give a about supporting the local art scene because we’ve existed in Five Points for over 100 years,”
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