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The Iron Horse Music Hall is a music venue located in Northampton, Massachusetts, west of Boston and north of Springfield, Massachusetts. Its motto was "Music Alone Shall Live".
Jordi Herold and John Riley opened the club on February 24, 1979, as a bohemian cafe with 85 seats.
The club doubled in size in the late 1980s
The venue was shuttered in March 2020 at the start of the COVID pandemic and as of early 2023 has yet to reopen.
At its February 14, 2023 meeting, the Northampton License Commission told Eric Suher, the owner The Iron Horse Music Hall, that it will cancel the liquor license for the venue if it was not reopened by June 1st.
In September 2023, The Parlor Room, Inc., the non-profit operator of the Parlor Room music venue, announced that they had signed an agreement to acquire The Iron Horse and reopen it. After a significant renovation the venue reopened on May 15, 2024.