{"id":178479,"date":"2021-11-19T07:01:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=178479"},"modified":"2021-10-20T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:53:10","slug":"uconn-magazine-nightclub-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/11\/uconn-magazine-nightclub-confidential\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Nightclub Confidential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Smith \u201992 (CLAS) was in trouble. He had a full house, it was approaching 9 p.m., and he still hadn\u2019t heard from his headliner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was before everyone had cell phones,\u201d recalls Smith, \u201cand it was a Friday night, so I couldn\u2019t reach the guy\u2019s manager.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith told the opening act, a local guitar slinger named Mark Erelli, to stretch for as long as he could. But after an hour, Smith finally had to tell the packed room the feature performer was a no-show, and anybody who wanted would get a full refund. Only three did. The rest stayed for Erelli\u2019s improvised second set, bought out all the merchandise he had (\u201cHe had to run to his car for more,\u201d Smith says), and gave the lesser-known singer-songwriter a standing ovation and three encores \u2014 the last one performed unamplified, standing on a chair by the kitchen. Erelli has sold out shows at Cambridge\u2019s Club Passim ever since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople walked out of here beaming,\u201d says Smith, managing director of Passim, arguably America\u2019s pre-eminent listening room \u2014 admittedly some might advocate for the iconic Bluebird Caf\u00e9 in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2021\/10\/14\/nightclub-confidential\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;People walked out of here beaming&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":178480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1711,2226,2235,102],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1902],"class_list":["post-178479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts-culture","category-clas","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 15:12:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178481,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178479\/revisions\/178481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/178480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178479"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=178479"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=178479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}