Rock Industry Professionals To Open New Entertainment Venue May 7

CLEARWATER, FL — Rock lovers will have a chance to meet RockHouse Live Grill & Venue Clearwater Beach founders Zach Bair and Jock Weaver when the new live entertainment venue that includes a restaurant and bar, hosts its grand opening in Clearwater Beach Friday.

The new venue at 207 Coronado Drive will celebrate with a ribbon-cutting ceremony open to the public at 4:30 p.m. The band Stormbringer will then hit the stage at 8 p.m. as the festivities continue into the night.

RockHouse Live held a soft opening last month and has already gotten high marks for concerts featuring Mixed Signal, The Bearded Brothers, Greg and Zen, Mike Albright, the Mark Anthony Band, Gary Schutt, Smooth D and The Boyz, Shawn Scheller & The Contenders, Paul FM, Soul Sisters, Tim Charron and NoFilter. Click here to see who's performing in coming weeks. Click here for tickets.

Menu items including the blackened gator nachos are getting a thumbs up as well.

Bair, the CEO of VNUE Inc., and Weaver, past president of Hard Rock Café International, said they opened RockHouse Live for the love of music and musicians. The venue will feature VNUE's proprietary music technology, which is pioneering new opportunities for musicians and music lovers.

"VNUE-owned tech platforms Soundstr and set.fm are a major part of our RockHouse Live plan," Bair said. "We are the first venues in the world that will leverage this technology on a corporate and global level to share this instant live music to your mobile device, so music fans can take their perfectly recorded concert with them before leaving the venue; as well as utilizing the Soundstr tech to help ensure songwriters are properly compensated."

Soundstr manages copyrights and royalties for live performances and Set.fm will offer live concerts performed at RockHouse Live to the public to download.

The new Clearwater venue projects $4 million or more in revenues per year at the Clearwater Beach location alone while RockHouse Live International scouts new locations in the U.S. and abroad, Bair said.

Bair is known as a pioneer in instant live recording. He's worked with and produced content for major artists over the last 17 years including Slash, Peter Frampton, Alter Bridge, Seether and, most recently, international superstar Rob Thomas.

Weaver brings hands-on experience from the iconic Hard Rock Café, which grew under his leadership from a $750,000 business to a multi-unit $200 million enterprise.

As a recording artist himself, Bair started VNUE to ensure that artists, labels, writers and publishers in the industry would be able to monetize live music.

With that in mind, VNUE pioneered the instant content distribution platform set.fm, the exclusive license partner and "instant live" network DiscLive and the groundbreaking Soundstr music recognition technology platform that protects the rights of artists and writers.

Bair said he couldn't think of a better way to highlight the benefits of the VNUE tech than at hybrid live and virtual entertainment-themed restaurant, venue and bar, "offering live music, entertainment, great food, awesome drinks and instant live recordings."

RockHouse Live Clearwater Beach will feature extensive indoor and outdoor seating, an indoor/outdoor bar, air curtains and nightly live music by local, regional and national artists.

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