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Kickstarter Quest: Koffee? Unplugged

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Drip coffee. Iced coffee. Small coffee. Tall coffee. Live music? 

That’s the idea behind Let’s Get Live Music at Koffee!!!,” a Kickstarter campaign that Koffee? barista and musician Coulter Davis is leading to bring musical performances back to the café on Audubon Street as it enjoys its 15th year under the ownership of New Havener Duncan Goodall. While the shop offered music at the beginning of Goodall’s tenure in 2002, it did so without a permit, and its mellifluous days and night quickly came to an end. 

That may not be the case after late August. People would always come up asking if we could have live music, or if we do it … now I feel that Koffee? is ready for live music and maybe a Kickstarter is the right way to approach it,” said Davis, taking a short break from mixing the sea-salt mochas and chai lattes that came with the midmorning rush.

I don’t really think there are any really good acoustic spots in New Haven at all,” he said.

That seems debatable for the city as a whole, but maybe not for the stretch of Audubon Street on which Koffee? finds itself, tuned into the arts scene but often sleepy after 5 or 6 at night. Davis and other staff members, many of whom work there to support their own artistic endeavors, don’t think that has to be Koffee?‘s story. Instead, they see it as a potential fixture in New Haven’s sizable and ever-shifting music scene.

What that means is still in flux, but Davis imagines an intimate, unplugged performance space in the front half of the cafe, where currently a cluster of couches surround a weathered coffee table and pictures of regulars hang askew on the walls. The money he is trying to raise — 600 dollars flat by August 20 — will cover the complete cost of a permit.

To find out more about the campaign, click here.

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