Brooklyn venue Music Hall Of Williamsburg will close after 2026.
The news was confirmed by Variety, who obtained an internal memo from the venue indicating that a lease will not be sought beyond 2026.
Bowery Presents co-partners Jim Glancy and John Moore indicate that this decision will cause Music Hall Of Williamsburg to either relocate or shut down; following a request from Pitchfork, the team indicated that the memo was correct.
A vital part of the Brooklyn music scene, Music Hall Of Williamsburg has been hosting live performances for over two decades now, platforming new talent and helping to spur on the area’s formidable creative community.
“Music Hall of Williamsburg arrived at a time when the North Brooklyn neighborhood was having a cultural awakening, and we were among the first music clubs to open in the neighborhood and establish tenure,” Glancy and Moore wrote. “We opened the venue and hosted countless artists at the very beginning of their careers, including Mumford and Sons, Tame Impala, St. Vincent, Ed Sheeran, Tyler, The Creator, Brandi Carlile, The xx, The Weeknd, Robyn, Disclosure, the War on Drugs, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Phoebe Bridgers, IDLES, Maggie Rogers, Fred again.., Geese, and Audrey Hobert, to name just a few.”
The memo states: “While we cannot speak to the future of 66 North 6th Street, The Bowery Presents is grateful for our time there, our staff that helps operate the venue night-after-night, and our collective commitment as a company to artist development. And as always, our passion for identifying new and exciting places for artists and fans to experience the transcendental power of live music will continue, as it has since we first crossed the bridge two decades ago.”
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