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# Siren Music Festival Yanked From Coney Island
- URL: https://bklyner.com/while-our-concerts-gently-weep-siren-fest-yanked-from-coney-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2011-04-18T17:00:48.000Z
- Updated: 2011-04-18T17:00:48.000Z
- Author: Erica Sherman
- Tags: siren music festival, #API-Imported

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A photo from Siren Festival 2009, by Saucy Salad via Flickr.

The hits just keep on coming, for lovers of Southern Brooklyn’s music scene.

Still reeling from last month’s [abandonment of the Seaside Summer Concert Series from Asser Levy Seaside Park](/seaside-concerts-may-vacate-asser-levy-park/) after 32 years, Southern Brooklynites were smacked with a double whammy this week with the news that the decade-old Siren Festival is abandoning its longtime roots in Coney Island for a venue across the Hudson at the South Street Seaport, as [reported by the Brooklyn Paper](http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/16/all%5Fsirenfestivalcancelled%5F2011%5F04%5F21%5Fbk.html?ref=bklyner.com).

Adding insult to injury, the festival’s very cool rock ’n roll-sounding name has been changed to the deeply weird and BDSM-sounding “4Knots Music Festival” (*Bueller?*), with insensitive jerkoffs concert organizers on the [Village Voice’s website](http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/04/4knots%5Fmusic%5Ffestival%5Fannouncement%5Fjuly%5F16%5F2011.php?ref=bklyner.com) suggesting we get over the loss and “Embrace change!”

So with Coney’s once vivacious music scene evaporating piece by piece before our eyes, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus [calling it quits](/no-circus-at-coney-island-this-summer/) in Coney after just a scant two years on the boardwalk, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [threatening to yank](/army-corps-could-abandon-fort-hamilton-base/) its North Atlantic Division headquarters from the Fort Hamilton Army Base, we can’t help but wonder — is it our breath or something?