La Sala Rossa

La Sala Rossa (The Red Room) is Casa del Popolo's bigger venue just across the street. This beautiful room is a historic Montreal building built by the left-wing Jewish community in 1932. It was a cultural / recreational / political center and once hosted Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt as well as a workmen's circle during the 1940's and '50's. For the past thirty years the Centro Social Español has occupied the building and continues to use it as a cultural center for people of Spanish decent. The Sala is proud to be a part of this integral piece of Montreal history. The room fits up to 250 people. On any given night, you might find a cabaret, a free-jazz master, a breakdance competition, some good ol' rock 'n' roll, reggae, djs, folk, indie-rock, musique actuelle, film screenings, a flamenco show, poetry readings or some guy sitting in a tent blowing thru your mind. Monthly events that have made the Sala so popular include the Kiss My Cabaret, the Meow Mix and the Goods.

We are usually booked 2 months in advance. If you are interested in putting on an event or booking a show, please send us a CD, cassette or a description of the event at info@casadelpopolo.com or to 4873 St-Laurent, Montréal (Québec) H2T 1R6 CANADA. You can also consult our booking section.

Here are some artists who performed at La Sala Rossa or Casa Del Popolo & El Salón : Arab Strap, … And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Michael Gira's Angels Of Light, Clinic, Add N to (X), Kid 606, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Town & Country, Hamid Drake, Buck 65, Hood, Carla Bozulich, Nels Cline, Louie Austen, Calla, Francisco Lopez, Shalabi Effect, Bobby Conn, Solex, Shannon Wright, Windsor For The Derby, Sonic Boom, Lesser, Gold Chains, Antipop Consortium, Plaid, Mooney Suzuki, Milemarkers, Moldy Peaches, Hrvatski, Mitchell Akiyama, Tim Hecker, Mr Quintron, No Neck Blues Band, Peter Brötzmann, Sunny Murray, William Parker, cLOUDDEAD, Bob Log III, Unwound, Pinback, Sweep The Leg Johnny, Suicide, Preston School Of Industry, The Shins, Beachwood Sparks, Black Dice, American Analog Set, Swearing At Motorists, Oxes, Do Make Say Think, The Dears, Hot Hot Heat, The Datsuns, The Warlocks, Acid Mothers Temple, Fly Pan Am, Hanged Up, Sixtoo, The Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tralala Band, Atmosphere, New Bomb Turks, The Pattern, Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Weird War, TV on the Radio, Les Georges Leningrad, Tricky Woo, Xiu Xiu, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Steve Lacy, Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Ursula Rucker, Susie Ibarra, David S. Ware, Matthew Shipp, Alan Silva, Ken Vandermark Peter Brotzmann Tentet, Evan Parker, the Donkeys and the list goes on …