The bar/restaurant down the street has a down-stairs lounge area. Five or so nights a week there is free live (acoustic) music down there. Many times the same band will play the same night each week. They have fun doing it, and play for tips (not a cover).
The bar opening up next door to it will have a performance space in the back.
There's a place a quarter mile away that is (coffee shop | beer/wine bar | performance space | thrift store | art gallery).
There's a performance space down the block in the other direction; usually they host plays. Right now a local band has been performing a play + music performance for the past month.
It was sold out last night.
Maybe you don't get the traditional resident bands much anymore. But here in Bushwick, local talent is playing for local residents and having a smashing time doing it. A friend's band is about to go on tour to LA with money they've saved up from doing local gigs.
Bands / musical performers are hearkening back to the concept of a traveling minstrel rather than the superstar performer of the last century. It's never something you did "to get rich" - only the very lucky got that. The best performers have done it because they needed to.
The bar opening up next door to it will have a performance space in the back.
There's a place a quarter mile away that is (coffee shop | beer/wine bar | performance space | thrift store | art gallery).
There's a performance space down the block in the other direction; usually they host plays. Right now a local band has been performing a play + music performance for the past month.
It was sold out last night.
Maybe you don't get the traditional resident bands much anymore. But here in Bushwick, local talent is playing for local residents and having a smashing time doing it. A friend's band is about to go on tour to LA with money they've saved up from doing local gigs.
Bands / musical performers are hearkening back to the concept of a traveling minstrel rather than the superstar performer of the last century. It's never something you did "to get rich" - only the very lucky got that. The best performers have done it because they needed to.