Traveling show will carry on Frederick's tradition
 By Daniel Durchholz
SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH  

PublishDate: Sunday, 2/26/2006
Sections: A&E
Page: F4

 Frederick's Music Lounge may be gone, having been shuttered and sold in the past two weeks.
But a part of the south city hangout will live on.

"Noiseday Hootenanny," the open mike night that held sway over Thursdays at Frederick's for nearly seven years,
will be revived and taken on the road under a new name,
the "Chippewa Chapel Traveling Guitar Circle & Medicine Show."

"We were cleaning up stuff at Frederick's the Thursday after the bar closed,
and afterward I went to three or four different places," says Paul Stark,
Frederick's former business manager and overseer of the hoot nights.
"I got on the phone and found out that other people were doing the same thing.
Everybody said, 'What are we going to do on Thursday nights now?
There's music, but it's too organized and you've gotta pay a cover.
Where can we go just to have the guitar circle?' I thought, "I've gotta fill that hole.'"

The first edition of the new series was held last Thursday at Riley's Pub, 3458 Arsenal Street.
"I want to take it to places that aren't known for live music," Stark says.
"We can kind of spread our beer money around to various places on the south side
and beyond until the hootenanny finds a new permanent home."

This week's Chippewa Chapel will be held at the Royale, 3132 South Kingshighway.
After that, venues will be announced on Frederick's still-extant Web site (http://www.fredericksmusiclounge.com).

As for the name, "Chippewa Chapel" is, for a small coterie of friends and former regulars,
a code name for Frederick's, which was located on Chippewa Street.
"'Chippewa Chapel' was a phrase (former owner, the late Fred Boettcher) Senior used to use," Stark says.
"He didn't have a Sunday liquor license, so he'd be closed but would invite me over for dinner Sunday nights.
We said we were 'going to the Chippewa Chapel for Sunday services.'"