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“Tim is a former Cambridge resident with incredibly fond memories of the Cantab Lounge in its prime. When he learned of its closing, he said he wants to do whatever it would take to get the doors back open and begin a new chapter for the Cantab and refocus the operation as a place for music and the arts,” attorney Adam Barnosky said at a License Commission hearing.
“[Dibble] is very adamant about continuing a long-standing tradition of local and creative endeavors at the Cantab, including the Boston Poetry Slam, a weekly bluegrass series and other activities which provide a venue for the promotion of the arts,” Barnosky said. It will be “a place where the independent musicians and artists within Cambridge can congregate, create and perform, all of which had been a constant of the Cantab.”
Tim Dibble, a parter in a private equity firm, is new owner of the Cantab Lounge in Central Square. (Photo: Alta Equity Partners)
Dibble has had a three-decade career in private equity at Alta Communications in Boston and Alta Equity Partners in Concord, as well as a history of volunteerism that includes sitting on the boards of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts, Barnosky said. Dibble’s manager at the Cantab would be Michael Cronin, who boasts of having more than 25 years of experience at entertainment venues and restaurants such as Tony C’s Sports Bar & Grill in Somerville and Jillian’s in Boston.
“It’s a privilege,” Cronin said. “I would really just want to revive the Cantab … and hopefully be able to to not skip a beat, even though it’s been a tough, tough past year and a half.”
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