LIVE MUSIC Performance Inquiries

Please consider the following before submitting an inquiry about playing Forest City Brewery.

• FCB is a neighborhood brewery and event space. We are not a bar restaurant that occasionally provides entertainment for its patrons.

• We feature multiple residency musical performances each week. Those weekly shows have been grown over the last several years by the hard work of the musicians that perform, and our management staff.

• Most bars & restaurants focus on selling food & beverages with music being a side project. We aren’t a music club, and we’re not a high-end restaurant, so we’re somewhere in the middle.

What does this mean to you?

• Bands must have the ability to draw patrons that are willing to see you perform. Of course we have a few dozen loyal fans and some of them will be in attendance on any given occasion, but we need your fan base to support the show or it simply won’t work.

• All band members must all be 21 to play.

• We do not host rap, hip-hop, heavy metal, or punk.

• Loud music does not work well here. If you are too loud, you will not be asked back & might even be asked to end your show early.

• Please keep in mind that most of our performance slots are a 3 hour window & you are required to provide entertainment for the entire time (with a break). We do provide PA, in our Waldorf Beer Hall.

If after reading the above and believe your band is a good fit,
please send an EPK, link to your web page, You Tube etc. to:

– PLEASE NOTE –

DUE TO THE HIGH VOLUME OF SUBMISSIONS, WE CAN'T REPLY TO EVERYONE.
We do listen & review every band/artist, but sorry, we simply can’t get back to everyone. No reply generally means we do not think your band is a good fit, or we simply don’t have any dates open that would work.
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”
– Hunter S. Thompson