Bushwick’s DIY music scene gets a lot of hype—but one local space is offering musicians with more formal training a place to collaborate, play, and perform.

“We want to host the music people can’t hear in bars,” says Anita Mercier, co-owner, with her husband René Pierre Allain, of the new music rehearsal and performance space Scholes Street Studio.

“We lived in a loft on North 10th Street and Bedford for almost 30 years and used to host concerts there,” she says. “We’d make dinner and have people over and musicians we knew could get some practice testing their stuff out. It became my mission to bring classical music to Williamsburg!”