{"id":298171,"date":"2026-10-02T06:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298171\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T06:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:18:35","slug":"longtime-northern-liberties-venue-the-fire-closes-after-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298171\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Northern Liberties venue The Fire closes after 27 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHERN LIBERTIES (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Fire, a well-known music venue in Northern Liberties shuttered on Wednesday night after more than a quarter century of showcasing local and national talents.<\/p>\n<p>Among the national talent was My Chemical Romance, which gave The Fire a shoutout from the stage in the Wells Fargo Center 20 years after first playing at the venue on West Girard Avenue in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Often billed as Philly\u2019s only women-owned music venue, it has also played host to John Legend, Maroon 5, Modern Baseball, and the Cold War Kids, among many more.<\/p>\n<p>This week, owner Karen Lauria Salliant announced on Facebook that Wednesday night\u2019s show featuring Philly\u2019s Deek Westside was to be The Fire\u2019s last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not able to continue after the death of my beloved son, Christian Bygott, who was our manager and our backbone,\u201d Salliant wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Bygott died in 2024 at age 41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHERN LIBERTIES (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Fire, a well-known music venue in Northern Liberties shuttered on Wednesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7865,75918,482,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-298171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-music","tag-music-venue","tag-northern-liberties","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}