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The Bowery Presents is now booking Brooklyn Bowl

Bowery Ballroom and Brooklyn Bowl

Brooklyn Bowl and Bowery Presents are announcing today that they’ve formed a partnership. Josh Moore of Bowery Presents is now the head talent buyer (booker) for, not only Music Hall of Williamsburg, but also Brooklyn Bowl.

Brooklyn Bowl will continue to occasionally program its own events too, and continue to work with various promotional partners (for instance partnering with JellyNYC to make the bowling alley / music venue the official afterparty location of the Pool Parties this summer), but I think for the most part, Brooklyn Bowl will now appear to be part of the Bowery family.

“We watched Brooklyn Bowl grow from the ground up,” says Moore. “The project was indeed ambitious but it was so well conceived and executed — it just worked. We are also excited to be in business with our good friends, Peter Shapiro and Charley Ryan, who did an amazing job bringing the venue to life. After spiritedly competing on bookings over the past few weeks we mutually realized that we should work together, rather than compete against one another.”

Will Griggs, co-founder of Cantora Records, has been hired to work with Josh on booking the bowling alley, and Brooklyn Bowl’s current talent buyer, Mia Sladyk, “will continue to work with Brooklyn Bowl as a favored promoter”.

“This is an ideal development for Brooklyn Bowl,” said Brooklyn Bowl co-founder, Peter Shapiro. “Even from the first few shows, the venue has developed a reputation for being one of the most unique live music experiences in New York. We’ve been thrilled with the response and want to take our momentum into this partnership with The Bowery Presents. We are very appreciative of the significant contributions that Mia Sladyk made to Brooklyn Bowl; she has been a key member of our team and we look forward to continuing to work creatively with her in the future.”

Brooklyn Bowl is an amazing new venue. Bowery Presents books a lot of great shows. This could be a good thing.

Videos of The Drums and Cymbals Eat Guitars playing the recent Insound show at Brooklyn Bowl, below…

“Let’s Go Surfing” by the Drums @ Brooklyn Bowl

“Cold Spring” by Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Brooklyn Bowl