Local bands and artists have united to celebrate local culture in the spirit of art. This event, officially called “Art-apalooza,” is being held Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Here Today, Gone Tomorrow thrift store.

Chris Guillot, one of the event’s organizers and organ player for Trailerhounds, said “Art-apalooza” represents the same thing Trailerhounds wants to as a band: brotherhood and the coming together of people.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (known as HTGT) regularly serves as a venue for local music shows open to all ages. The store has been hosting such events to benefit the Baton Rouge community for four years, HTGT’s booking agent Aidan Dykes said.

“We think it’s important for underage musicians to have a safe place to play and have their friends and family … see them perform,” said Dykes, who also plays guitar for local band Squirt Gun Warriors.

The drummer for newly-formed funk outfit Whalebird, Joseph Lyle, said he organized the show after picturing the HTGT thrift store “dressed up in Christmas lights and covered in art.” Lyle helped get two other local bands, equally funky Trailerhounds and indie Circa Amore, and seven local artists involved in the event.

Lyle said the show will be set up in the space usually allotted, in the part of the building separated from the store. Each artist will have time to present his work between band sets, and there will be live painting throughout the night.

Lyle’s bandmate and fellow event organizer, vocalist Ryan Williams, said Whalebird has played the majority of its shows at HTGT and enjoyed the “awesome vibes and people.”

There will be free chicken and sausage jambalaya for the first 75 people to arrive at the event, but cover is $7 for every guest. “Art-apalooza” is starting at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 26, at HTGT, located at 10240 Burbank Drive.

“We think it’s important for underage musicians to have a safe place to play and have their friends and family … see them perform.”