PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Get ready for a whole lot of locally sourced music.
The second annual Prospect Heights Music and Arts Festival is kicking off this Wednesday, bringing five days of live performances and arts programming to your favorite local bar.
Put together last year by the owners of local watering holes The Way Station and Branded Saloon, the festival has expanded to include Prospect Heights favorites Soda Bar, The Saint Catherine and Tooker Alley, which will help host live acts from 75 Brooklyn-based musicians during the five-day event.
But the festival isn’t just about the music. On Saturday, the Way Station is hosting a panel discussion on how to sustain Prospect Heights as an affordable, “culturally diverse and creatively active” neighborhood, the bar said, with local artists, cultural thinkers and special guest Borough President Eric Adams.
Throughout the event, neighborhood arts spaces like Brooklyn Metal Works on Dean Street, Mawu Studio on Prospect Place and GRIDSPACE on Rogers Avenue will host studio tours, workshops and gallery viewings.
The festival is free to attend with a $5 “strongly suggested” donation for each musical act, according to organizers.
A complete list of artists, events, locations and times is available through the Way Station’s blog.
And if you can’t make it to a show, don’t worry — you can listen to 28 songs from participating artists on the official PHMAF mix tape, available below.
