Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House Music Events

For many years, the  Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House and Rhode Island Songwriters Association (RISA)  have provided great local musicians a place to showcase their music talents.

Come join us for a great evening of ORIGINAL music entertainment.    

Our coffee house is well known as a listening room.  We always showcase musicians as our number one priority. The Brooklyn accepts reservations to host your public or private music and entertainment events.  For more information, please contact us.  

We are also on www.Facebook.com; join us and be our coffee house friend!

We Resist Corporate Music 

Our policy has always been to allow musician to perform their own music.All material performed must be original or in the public domain as follows:

Hold the copyright to all their own songs,- or -They have been granted permission to perform the material by the copyrightholder Artist have been granted permission to perform the material by a licensing scheme that encourages the free sharing of cultural artifacts                            (such as a Creative Commons license).

Our Policy

To provide a place for ongoing and new performers to playin a non-noisy non alcoholic environment. We alsoprovide a place for all musicians, artist, actors etc. tonetwork and to improve their musical performance

Any one insisting on playing cover music will be asked not to perform

Why Do We Resist Corporate Music

Corporate control of music is hurting our culture and hinders the free development ofartistic expression. The “blanket Licensing” scheme enforced by the major music licensing corporations directs some benefit to musicians and fans. It helps fund major labels that perpetuate homogenized music, marginalize independent labels, engage in pay-for-play radio and undermine musicians.

Please respect our resistant to corporate music performance and to the staff at our coffee house who will be enforcing this policy. We value yourright to freely express yourself artistically and thank you forbringing your original work to the Brooklyn