EVERY Music Lover in New Yorker NEEDS to Go to Jalopy!!!!
6:47 pm, 9th Aug 2009
OK New Yorkers and music lovers, please do yourselves a damn favor and get your asses out to Jalopy in Red Hook, Brooklyn! I, for one, am mad at myself for not having gone there sooner – espcially as a ukulele player. Jalopy named Best Old-Timey Venue by the Village Voice: http://www.villagevoice.com/bestof/2008/award/best-old-timey-venue-690727/
First of all, look at this damn picture:
Tony Scherr at Jalopy, covered by The New York Times
This place is gorgeous!!! The venue is a sweet throwback to the days of yore, with a red velvet curtain and dozens of vintage instruments lining the wall (and all for sale, as Jalopy is also a top notch instrument store/repair shop). The seating in the intimate performance space is a combination of wooden chairs and pews, so it’s got a really down home feel to it. This place makes you feel like you are at a word-of-mouth-only concert hall on the bayou – especially on a hot summer night 
I highly HIGHLY recommend this place to both performers and music lovers. I found out about Jalopy through some other NY uke players, and it’s one of those places that people just rave and rave and rave about – but it’s not until you see it with your own eyes that you can truly experience how special it is. Plus, not only do they have a great roster of musicians stopping by to perform, they also offer classes for guitar, fiddle, mandolin banjo and uke.
Please visit Jalopy online: http://jalopy.biz and ESPECIALLY visit them in person. They have a little cafe/bar upfront, and serve wine in jam jars. The owners and staff are some of the most hospitable people I’ve ever met – and their dogs, Pepe and Pirate, will just steal your heart. This place has all the charm that the too-hip Manhattan and Williamsburg music venues are missing.
Anyway, I hope you do check it out – I guarantee that you’ll leave wanting to tell absolutely everyone you know about it too! Jalopy is one of those rare venues that seems to come right out of the New York that everyone dreams of *sigh*….
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OK New Yorkers and music lovers, please do yourselves a damn favor and get your asses out to Jalopy in Red Hook, Brooklyn! I, for one, am mad at myself for not having gone there sooner – espcially as a ukulele player. Jalopy named Best Old-Timey Venue by the Village Voice: http://www.villagevoice.com/bestof/2008/award/best-old-timey-venue-690727/
First of all, look at this damn picture:
Tony Scherr at Jalopy, covered by The New York Times
This place is gorgeous!!! The venue is a sweet throwback to the days of yore, with a red velvet curtain and dozens of vintage instruments lining the wall (and all for sale, as Jalopy is also a top notch instrument store/repair shop). The seating in the intimate performance space is a combination of wooden chairs and pews, so it’s got a really down home feel to it. This place makes you feel like you are at a word-of-mouth-only concert hall on the bayou – especially on a hot summer night
I highly HIGHLY recommend this place to both performers and music lovers. I found out about Jalopy through some other NY uke players, and it’s one of those places that people just rave and rave and rave about – but it’s not until you see it with your own eyes that you can truly experience how special it is. Plus, not only do they have a great roster of musicians stopping by to perform, they also offer classes for guitar, fiddle, mandolin banjo and uke.
Please visit Jalopy online: http://jalopy.biz and ESPECIALLY visit them in person. They have a little cafe/bar upfront, and serve wine in jam jars. The owners and staff are some of the most hospitable people I’ve ever met – and their dogs, Pepe and Pirate, will just steal your heart. This place has all the charm that the too-hip Manhattan and Williamsburg music venues are missing.
Anyway, I hope you do check it out – I guarantee that you’ll leave wanting to tell absolutely everyone you know about it too! Jalopy is one of those rare venues that seems to come right out of the New York that everyone dreams of *sigh*….
And great sound system/person.