Rockwood Music Hall

Lower East Side

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A Favorite Music Venue that went from Listening Room to Record Label

Rockwood Music Hall Performance

Rockwood Music Hall NYC Lower East Side

Rockwood Music Hall NYC

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About Rockwood Music Hall

& why it made the Carpe City list

Sometimes it’s tough to figure out how a venue got its name. That’s not the case with Rockwood Music Hall.
- Rockwood is named after Ken Rockwood, who started the club in 2005.
Rockwood is built for audiophiles. Known for its excellent acoustics, the club has played host to the likes of Sting, Nora Jones, and The Killers.
And, like nearby Arlene’s Grocery, Rockwood has been an incubator for nascent local talent that went on to hit it big, like Lady Gaga and Mumford & Sons.
Shows at Rockwood cover all genres, from Bluegrass to Rock to international sounds, taking advantage of three stages.
The club started as a listening room on Allen Street in 2005 but expanded into two adjoining spaces.
The acts grew along with the space:
- Ken Rockwood calls that “moving from stage one to stage two” (stage 3 is for lesser-known acts).
The club started its own record label, Rockwood Music Hall Recordings, in 2013.

Carpe City Trivia

In the '90s, Ken Rockwood was part of the folk-pop duo Professor and Maryann

Discovered playing a gig at CBGB’s in 1993 and dubbed “A Simon and Garfunkel of our age,” they put out three albums with Bar None Records: “Fairytale,” “Lead Us Not Into Penn Station,” and “Self-Titled.”

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