New York City’s SideWalk Cafe will shut its doorways for good after this weekend, as Brooklyn Vegan and Bedford & Bowery level out. The venue and restaurant opened in 1985 on the nook of Avenue A and East sixth Street within the East Village, and offered an early-career house for artists comparable to Beck, Michelle Shocked, the Moldy Peaches, Regina Spektor, Darwin Deez, and extra.
In 1993, SideWalk Cafe partnered with Lach—one of many founding musicians of the Antifolk scene—to host the Antifolk Festival in response to the extra mainstream New York Folk Festival. SideWalk has hosted the competition biannually ever since, and can shutter after the ultimate installment of the occasion tomorrow night time. Find the schedule for SideWalk’s final nights here.
Throughout its tenure as an East Village live performance venue, bar, and restaurant, SideWalk Cafe hosted dwell music, comedy units, open mic nights, and different performances seven nights per week with no cowl cost, based on the institution’s website. The destiny of SideWalk Cafe has been unsure since late final yr, when the venue underwent a change in ownership.
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