Building Community Through Music

Building Community Through Music Building Community Through Music wasn't officially named until 2013. The idea to bring community out, and together in public parks that were underutilized.

However, it was envisioned and founded in 2011 by Steve Serasis as a community initiative bringing local music artists & community together in Norwalk CT, and well beyond, those borders. With attention to supporting amazing local musicians, from within our community. With everyone, either playing, singing along, and/or dancing' al fresco on spring & summer nights. The goal of building community th

rough music was a success almost form the very start. It’s been a tremendous success. Show #100, in a little over seven years of the initiative took place on June 6, 2019. The strategy of giving free to use, media for marketing, to each and every artist. Made for a budget far below budget expectations. Building Community through Music shows proved to be one fifth of City music budget! The initiative was created with Tuesday Open Jam in Freese Park. Around 2011 a local club shuttered it’s doors, and left a great evening of “open Jam” with the David Lindsay house band, with no where to go...That’s when it hit me. Over 700 volunteer hours, and seven years later, the rest is Norwalk history. On this first initiative, Steve worked with Norwalk Recreation & Parks funding, offered video/photo marketing free for every performing artist, and physically had a paid employee on site for every concert. The purpose of the initiative was to show the city, and community that a great program that truly serves the community, can be done far under budget. The Building Community Through Music initiative supporting local music, bringing people of all walks of life into under-utilized city parks, and spaces, up to three times a week...was a great success. Thank you all, it was priceless! Building Community Through Music is poised for the future, and continued success! With sincere appreciation to everyone whose made it all possible, Steve Serasis.

06/02/2026

The sensational Al DiMeola🌟🎸❤️🎶🌟

06/01/2026

Yes!!! WONDERboom live!!!

The first concert ever at the Fodor Farm community gardens: Building Community Through Music, featured the northeast’s p...
05/31/2026

The first concert ever at the Fodor Farm community gardens: Building Community Through Music, featured the northeast’s premier, and maybe only “Agro-Rock” band; The Dirt Simple Band❤️🎶🪴

The Dirt Simple Band, take it to the cornfield tonight, on the Musi...

Building Community Through Music, celebrates, and supports local music everywhere. Heck we support all music everywhere....
05/22/2026

Building Community Through Music, celebrates, and supports local music everywhere. Heck we support all music everywhere. Here’s the edited forty eight minute version, of Mr. Speed, at The Colonial, in Keene New Hampshire, on; May 8, 2026. We didn’t want to share the entire two hour show, because YOU need to experience this premiere KISS tribute band for yourself. After personally attending 79 KISS shows from 1975-2024’s final show…this is the hottest KISS tribute band in the world!
Experience, and enjoy Mr. Speed live if you ever have the chance. You won’t be sorry. And please subscribe to our channel, and keep on; Building Community Through Music.










Building Community Through Music, celebrates, and supports local mu...

05/20/2026
05/19/2026

The Martin Barre Band is skating away at one of my favorite places, the Factory Underground studio…and has me thinking about the opening face-off, in the upcoming 2026 hockey season…kicking off in July!





Today is the day to post the one, and only Building Community Through Music, concert appearance by none other than; Wint...
05/15/2026

Today is the day to post the one, and only Building Community Through Music, concert appearance by none other than; Winter’s Heat 🔥 Having grown up with most everyone in every incarnation of the band. Hanging out at rehearsals in the Canal basement, then walking a few yards to Fitch pond for some pond hockey…it’s one of old Norwalk’s greatest bands, and good friends. This performance, is in the “Rock the Mansion” 2015 concert series. If you love Led Zeppelin, this is for you! Enjoy, and please subscribe to the Building Community Through Music YouTube channel🙏There’s plenty of new unreleased archived music coming!





It was the summer of 2015, and Norwalk Ct's Legendary "Winter's Heat," Established 1974, gathered the faithful for an evening of Building Community Through M...

More great bands have to do this for their fans! On top of a full tour schedule, and side projects. F^*king WONDERboom i...
07/18/2025

More great bands have to do this for their fans! On top of a full tour schedule, and side projects. F^*king WONDERboom is just one of the very best bands in the world, not just 🇿🇦 I was lucky enough to meet, and become friends with them at our group’s 2017 Musictochina Indie Music Festival. Where they won the Gold 🏆 Award, between 15 bands, at our three day Festival in Chengdu China. These guys are the real deal, I knew it the moment I heard their first notes, at that first sound check. On top of that. They’re just really wonderful humans. Do yourselves a favor. Give their catalog a listen on any platform. You won’t be sorry.

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