All of the above and they repair instruments, too. And it’s in Red Hook. There was an article about Jalopy in the New York Post recently that put it this way:
What exactly is Jalopy, anyway?
A visitor might well ask. Depending on what time and day it is, it’s a music venue, a café, an art gallery, an instrument shop, a rehearsal space and a music school. In the front, a bar with a cappuccino maker sits across from a wall of guitars and banjos; in the back is a performance space with a row of church pews for seats, where blues, jazz and country bands play by night, and kids’ music classes meet by morning.
A “community arts space” is what the Wileys call it, and if it’s hard to pin down, that’s according to plan. They hatched the idea for Jalopy several years ago, while living in Chicago, where Lynette ran a nonprofit funding youth programs and Geoff worked at a prop studio. They’d bought a building in the Wicker Park neighborhood, and while pondering what to do with its storefront, Geoff, a musician, sculptor and former actor (as well as stagehand, carpenter and vintage-car mechanic), began to formulate a vision.
And they’re putting on a Sam Shepard play called, The Holy Ghostly on November 1st at 8 p.m.
JALOPY
315 Columbia Street
