Sounds That Move Festival

Sounds That Move Festival is a music festival in Bushwick that programs live concerts, club nights, panels, and a vintage fashion market across five independent venues clustered on Scott Avenue.

Scott Avenue in Bushwick dead-ends at a cluster of five independent venues (99 Scott, Honey's, SILO, the Chocolate Factory, and Brooklyn Roots Collective) and Sounds That Move is built around exactly that geography. The festival, from Move Forward Music founder Al Damashek, treats the block as the infrastructure: one strollable corridor holding live concerts, late-night club programming, industry panels, and a multi-day vintage fashion market by Thrift2Death, all running simultaneously across the five rooms. Headliners for its 2026 debut include Saba, Hope Tala, Sango, Tyler ICU, and DJ Habibeats, alongside showcases curated by Pigeons & Planes, Grey Area, and Indie Hourzz. The thesis, as Damashek has put it, is that festivals have gotten bigger without getting more connected. And that the antidote is a walkable, neighborhood-rooted format that puts artists, fans, media, and venues in the same small radius.