US Venue Spotlight – Durham, NC – Motorco

We are very excited to have another outstanding venue return this year; Motorco that hosted River Whyless as part of Independent Venue Week in 2018.

When Motorco Music Hall opened its doors in 2010, the city of Durham gained more than just a beautiful music venueit also saw an invaluable addition to its local music scene while retaining a piece of its 20th-century history.

The Rigsbee Ave building that houses Motorco was built in 1938 as the production facility of a bread company. From the late 1950s, it functioned as a car dealership until it was taken over by a limo service company in the early 1990s. The building was eventually abandoned and left to overgrow. This was until the people behind Motorco renovated it in the summer of 2010, opening their venue in September of that same yearwith a name that can only be said to honor the building’s history.

To this day, Motorco is still going strong. The venue features a large patio, the eclectic GarageBar space, affordable food from its Parts & Labor kitchen, and a showroom thatwith a 450-person capacityeffectively makes Motorco Durham’s largest music venue.

In its nine years, Motorco has grown to be a nationally respected venue that features both nationally touring artists and the local area’s finest headliners.

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