Notes from the Captain’s Log
Dear Bargemusic Family,
Bargemusic is approaching its 50th anniversary in the water slip at Pier One in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
The Barge is now approximately 150 years old and has served the audiences, the musicians and the community well for nearly 50 years. Although it has always been diligently maintained and repaired, recently it has been determined that it can no longer be restored to the level required.
We will actively be looking for a new boat that will best serve Bargemusic’s mission for the next 50 years.
We are grateful to Brooklyn Bridge Park who have been very helpful and have expressed how much they value Bargemusic as a longtime partner. They have generously provided a wonderful space with gorgeous views in Brooklyn Bridge Park where Bargemusic can continue to present its concerts until a new boat can be found.
Bargemusic remains a valuable jewel in the artistic landscape of New York and we look forward to resuming our concerts in April and seeing you all again.
We will keep you updated.
With much love,
Mark Peskanov & Everyone at Bargemusic
“Bargemusic, one of New York City’s most beloved musical venues, sails into the sunset.”
–Steve Smith, “Night after Night”
EL 375, the vessel that long housed Bargemusic, was unmoored and towed away late Monday afternoon. (Photograph: Bill Orme)
“…An observer named Bill Orme documented the barge’s departure yesterday, with poignant photos and a brief note on Instagram:
ormebill Beloved #bargemusic barge being tugged away into the sunset tonight, extracted from the #oldfultonlanding berth where the city’s only small floating impeccably programmed classical music venue has graced the Brooklyn waterfront for decades, since before #dumbo was ‘Dumbo’ and before there was a #brooklynbridgepark – the tug/barge crew hauling it away…”
Chapter Two: Bargemusic at the Boathouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Mark Peskanov trying the sound at The Boathouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park (photograph: Margo Shohl)
“As Peskanov stated in his note to supporters, concerts under the Bargemusic banner will continue at a new site…the Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse, where programming is planned to resume on April 5.
‘To have this new, incredible place for the musicians and the whole community, it’s a great miracle and evolution,’ Peskanov wrote in a message.
‘We are very grateful to Eric Landau, the President of Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, and his great team at the Brooklyn Bridge Park.’
Peskanov further credits singer and composer DeBorge Pinnington, a Bargemusic board member, with the ‘amazing, impossible hard work and wisdom’ that made possible what he terms a ‘miraculous transformation’ as the Bargemusic concert series comes ashore for the time being.
The search for a new boat, he added, has already begun. Still, the last voyage of faithful EL 375 truly marks the end of an era.”
–Read the whole article by Steve Smith in “Night after Night” here
Bargemusic — New York City’s floating concert hall
Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a “wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics.” Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.”
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