Local music aficionados were hit with disheartening news of Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts’ closure back in December. While Blue Bamboo originally had plans to transfer over to a venue in the Packing ...

Live music happens at the new Bamboo in late June Credit: Photo courtesy Bllue Bamboo Center/Instagram Best Nomads no more! Blue Bamboo Center will (re) open later this month at expansive new digs in ...

Although the former Winter Park library building has sat unoccupied for years, Chris Cortez saw it as a blank canvas for building a brand new performing arts space and as a chance to breathe new life ...

The Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts will received $900,994 from Orange County — down from an original $1 million grant — after the Arts & Cultural Affairs Advisory Council unanimously approved a ...

During a July concert celebrating the Blue Bamboo’s seventh anniversary as a Winter Park jazz venue and nonprofit, owner Chris Cortez announced to patrons that his organization could be facing a three ...

“Can you believe that we’re here?” asked Chris Cortez, the founder of Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, in front of a packed house of around 180 patrons. What Cortez, his wife Melody and his nonprofit ...