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Live Music Venues in Park Slope?

ic96
ic96
edited November -1 in Park Slope
What live music venues are there in Park Slope? What kind of music is played?

Thanks

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  • anonymous
    anonymous
    My faves:

    Barbes on 9th Street - Cabaret, Folk, Roots, Intimate Pop, and anything that can use an accordion. Extremely enjoyable atmosphere.
    http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com/

    Southpaw - Every conceivable genre. More boisterous that Barbes and a slightly younger crowd, but just as delicious.
    http://www.spsounds.com/

    Freddy's Backroom - Not in the Slope, but it's very easy to walk there. Just head north on 6th Avenue until just past the police station. Great calendar.
    http://www.freddysbackroom.com/index.html

    There are many more choices, as I'm sure you'll find in the replies.
  • dope on the slope
    dope on the slope
    BTW, "guest" was me.
  • pitu
    pitu
    Dope on the Slope wrote: BTW, "guest" was me.
    you were wonderfully comprehensive

    Tuesday nights at Barbes, the Slavic Soul Party, are pretty fun.

    There's a teeny newish place on Fourth Ave (President/Union) called Spoken Word - so far mostly djs but bet some good music is going to pop up there...

    and in the summer...there's the park. Free music and movies at the bandshell.
  • kittygolightly
    kittygolightly
    I've seen plenty of music happening in Night & Day on 5th Ave & President as of late - mostly looks like jazz combos. There's also Puppets Jazz Bar on 5th Ave and...I wanna say 2nd or 3rd, but could easily be on the crack.
  • dope on the slope
    dope on the slope
    There's also the Good Coffee House at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. The have folk, blues, bluegrass and the occasional avant garde offering.

    http://www.bsec.org/events/coffeehouse/

    And... The Brooklyn Museum's "First Saturdays" (It's actually called "Target First Saturday's" now, but I REFUSE to comply)

    http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/first-saturdays

    Not to be too obvious but there's also BAM

    http://www.bam.org/

    And finally, there is the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, which I've never been to, but I hear it's a great place to see music

    http://www.bqcm.org/calendar_brooklyn.htm
  • pitu
    pitu
    kittygolightly wrote: I've seen plenty of music happening in Night & Day on 5th Ave & President as of late - mostly looks like jazz combos. There's also Puppets Jazz Bar on 5th Ave and...I wanna say 2nd or 3rd, but could easily be on the crack.
    o yeah . . . a very grown up jazz trio thing newly going on at Night and Day.

    And I've heard some Brazilian stuff floating out of the little jazz bar, but only when I've had a dog with me so I haven't gone in. Is it really called Puppets?
    It's near the teeney tiny music store...west side of Fifth Ave, around 2nd St.
  • kittygolightly
    kittygolightly
    Yup - it's really called Puppets.

    http://puppetsjazz.com/

    Great Lakes also books bands on a pretty regular basis.
  • ed zeppelin
    ed zeppelin
    Be sure you check out Stephane Wrembel when he's at Barbe's. Jazz guitarist in the style of Django Reinhardt with a lot of other influences. Absolutely brilliant musician.
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    Hanks, on Atlantic and Third, also does nice greasy rock music. Not really the Slope, I know, but it's pretty fun.
  • gringcorp
    gringcorp
    That Hank's Guest was me. While I'm veering to the West, there's also the Lyceum on Fouth and Union, which does a fair bit of avant-garde stuff, as well as the Grand Prospect Hall on the Prospect Expressway (ish) and Fifth, which does, um, ballroon dancing