Bringing The Music Back To Broadway

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Three years ago, Matt McCabe, owner of Saratoga Guitar, packed up his popular Broadway music store and moved it to the city’s west side. Now he is bringing the music back to the city’s busiest street with the opening of a new Broadway location. “I never really wanted to leave because I thought it was important for us to have this kind of store on Broadway, but there were some community needs including repair service, lesson rooms and parking that we couldn’t fulfill at our previous location,” McCabe said. At the time, McCabe decided to relocate to a bigger storefront on West Avenue, which had recently undergone a resurgence with the opening of a $10 million YMCA facility, the construction of a new Empire State College building and a $6 million renovation to the Saratoga Springs Train Station. However, no sooner had he left Broadway before he started looking to get back. “The West Side store has allowed us to do a lot of things we couldn’t do at our old Broadway location so it seemed like the right thing to do at the time, but I never stopped looking for an affordable way to get back on Broadway,” he said. It took three years, but McCabe was finally able to find the right opportunity to make the move a reality and he officially opened the new location at 492 Broadway on Monday, November 4. In addition to the existing store located at 60 West Avenue, the new location will share space with Mountainman Outdoor Supply Company and serve as a showroom and retail space. McCabe also hopes to use the space to cultivate small workshops in an effort to make the store more interactive. “It’s a beautiful location and the feedback from the community has been wonderful so far,” McCabe said. In the coming weeks, McCabe said he intends to hold a series of events to celebrate the store’s opening, including a meet-and-greet with The Gibson Brothers on Sunday, November 17 at 2 p.m.