Bellingham’s Craig Jewell Reopens Downtown’s Wild Buffalo After a Year of Working To Keep Live Music Afloat

It’s insufficient to just say that the COVID-19 pandemic hurt much of what’s important to our collective day-to-day lives; for music fans and those who work in the industry, it was unclear if local venues, live music and performance would ever come back as we knew them. But for many venue owners—like Craig Jewell, co-owner and operator of Bellingham’s popular Wild Buffalo—where there was a will, there was always a way.