Morgan Margolis
Margolis joined Knitting Factory Entertainment in 2000 as Operations Manager of Los Angeles’ flagship Knitting Factory concert house. Later he took over as VP of West Coast Operations as the company expanded into the Pacific Northwest, where KFE opened concert houses in Boise and Spokane, and produced tours and concerts at other high-capacity venues nationally. In 2007, Margolis was promoted to VP National Operations. Within a year, he was named CEO of KFE and for the past fourteen years has helmed the company. Margolis has guided the corporation from a three-unit venue company to a twenty-unit, multiple tiered operation, and portfolio company with six hundred employees nationally and abroad.
Today, KFE comprises multiple bars / restaurants and national Knitting Factory concert venues; partnerships with Boomtown Brewery, in DTLA and Arrive Hotel Palm Springs, CA; 2021 partnership with iconic venue / bar Pappy and Harriet’s , Joshua Tree, CA. A partnership with The Buckhead Group in several restaurants, in California and Colorado; KF Records’ ownership of Brooklyn-based indie label Partisan Records (Music Week UK Label of The Year 2020, with multiple Grammy nominations annually); Left Music Publishing; Knitting Factory Management; Selby Artist Management; Giant Step Marketing and Media, TBA theatrical agency, Fandiem, a digital fundraising platform; and the Connect Group culinary management. KFE also owns the tastemaker web and podcast property, Talkhouse. Margolis created a strategic partnership with Okay Media and a recent tie-in with Fillmore Capital group on a multi-use entertainment and hospitality complex in Denver, opened October 2022.
KFE’s national touring and promotions arm tied the knot with CMoore Concerts in 2019 expanding its footprint. Booking national acts across multiple states including, but not limited to Outlaw Field, ID, Big Sky Brewery Amphitheatre in MO and Wine Country Amp in Walla Walla WA, these venues safely serve more than 150,000 fans outdoors annually. KFE holds and has held numerous promoter contracts including but not limited to Slowdown, NE; Elevation 27, VA; Alma in Tacoma WA and Hop Springs in Murfreesboro TN as a talent buyer. Partnerships have also included Rachel Ray’s Feedback in Chicago, Hortons Hayride in California, the iconic Desert Daze Festival in Moreno Valley, Maha Festival, NE, Bogus Fest, ID and Underground Music Showcase, CO. 2 KFE was a co producer of FELA on Broadway, receiving multiple Tony Awards (with Alex Gibney directing the film version); the documentary THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST; and is currently a co-producer on Saul Williams’ critically acclaimed just released film, NEPTUNE FROST.