Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg is about to shut after almost twenty years. In an inside memo printed by Variety, Bowery Presents co-partners Jim Glancy and John Moore confirmed that the house owners of 66 North Sixth Road is not going to renew the venue’s lease on the finish of 2026, forcing it to relocate or shut down. A Bowery spokesperson confirmed to Pitchfork that the memo is correct.
“Music Corridor of Williamsburg arrived at a time when the North Brooklyn neighborhood was having a cultural awakening, and we had been among the many first music golf equipment to open within the neighborhood and set up tenure,” Glancy and Moore wrote. “We opened the venue and hosted numerous artists on the very starting of their careers, together with Mumford and Sons, Tame Impala, St. Vincent, Ed Sheeran, Tyler, The Creator, Brandi Carlile, The xx, The Weeknd, Robyn, Disclosure, the Struggle on Medicine, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Phoebe Bridgers, IDLES, Maggie Rogers, Fred once more.., Geese, and Audrey Hobert, to call just some.”
The memo continues, “Whereas we can not communicate to the way forward for 66 North sixth Road, The Bowery Presents is grateful for our time there, our workers that helps function the venue night-after-night, and our collective dedication as an organization to artist growth. And as all the time, our ardour for figuring out new and thrilling locations for artists and followers to expertise the transcendental energy of reside music will proceed, because it has since we first crossed the bridge twenty years in the past.”
Music Corridor of Williamsburg opened in 2007, within the house that beforehand housed the smaller rock membership Northsix. The venue was one in all a number of introduced underneath the AEG umbrella in a 2017 deal between the leisure conglomerate and Bowery Presents. In line with Glancy and Moore, Music Corridor of Williamsburg will proceed to placed on reveals till the tip of subsequent yr. Among the many performers presently booked for 2026 are Hatchie, Westerman, Ryan Davis, Whitney, and Lucy Bedroque.
