After a decade of fires in the Bronx, 24 theaters, nightclubs, and music halls crucial to the borough’s unique musical and cultural landscape were lost. Save for the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, which opened in 1980, the two dozen venues for the performing arts were shuttered — abandoned, burned, or failed. No new performing arts center was built for decades.
More than 50 years later, the Women’s Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco), a nonprofit affordable housing developer, changed that on Oct. 18 when they opened the Bronx Music Hall.
Integral to the identity of their third and largest affordable housing development, the Bronx Commons, the Bronx Music Hall welcomed the public with three days of musical and dance festivities. The opening brought names like MC Sha-Rock, credited with being the first woman rapper; Ghanian dance group Wuza Wuza Ensemble; woodwind and brass band the Individuals for Peace; and Grammy-nominated percussionist and South Bronx native Bobby…
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