While on a visit home from college in 1987, Marina Texeira had a “very short-lived” first experience working for the family business: She waitressed that summer at Sacramento’s long-standing music venue, the Torch Club, a bar that her grandfather Frank Texeria had purchased in 1969.

Since the end of Prohibition, the Torch Club has been the Capital’s most reliable and consistent stage for local and touring blues, folk and Americana bands. After Frank’s death in the early 80s, Marina’s parents Ron and Evelyn took over ownership, later moving the bar to its current home at 904 15th Street in 2000. In the mid-1980s, the second generation of Texeiras saw competing venues close as they became the de facto showcase for blues music.

When her mother died in 1996, Marina’s father struggled to manage and book the Torch’s live music. Marina began stepping in to work alongside him at the venue.

“Mark Mitchell (talent booker) and Marina are very eager to give people a shot and help cultivate and grow their crowds,” she said. “It’s just such a jewel in a local venue and one that cements the music scene as a whole in the community. Marina, she’s a leader in that.”

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