Prepare yourself to be taken over next Saturday when Norwalk’s Wall Street Theater and area locations celebrate “Wall Street Takeover.” The main event features four local up-and-coming bands performing at the Wall Street Theater followed by an after-party at Peaches Southern Pub & Juke Joint with two more bands playing just down the street.

During the day, the Norwalk Public Library gets into the act with a variety of events, including Low Impact Aerobics with Linda Lombardo in the Main Auditorium of the Library at 3 p.m., indoor mini-golf, Lego car racing, life-size Angry Birds, an art display, plus other pop-up activities. Norwalk Public Library is located at 1 Belden Ave.

The doors of the Wall Street Theater, located at 71 Wall St., open at 7 p.m. with the lobby being filled with local artists, poets and creatives displaying their work.

The live sounds hit the main stage at 8 p.m. with Chris Yerinides & The Rough Edges, Justin Chan & The Vices, James Darling & The Nuclear Heartbreaks and Hosemen. All profits generated by ticket sales will be donated to the Norwalk Housing Foundation College Fund. Tickets: $10, and it’s all ages. The official after-party at Peaches Juke Joint begins at 10:30 p.m. and features Brooklyn’s The Mad Doctors and Stamford’s Jaques Le Coque. Peaches Juke Joint is located at 7 Wall St.

“I’ll take any excuse to throw a big party and play some music with my friends,” said event organizer Chris Yerinides, who leads the Rough Edges into the Wall Street Theater that night.

Yerinides originally planned to make this a going-away party, because he was moving to the Rocky Mountain region later this summer. But plans changed, and he’s remaining local, so “eventually this snowballed into a festival idea. We have some really cool things in Connecticut. This is especially true for Norwalk and the Wall Street area,” he said. “If you travel throughout the U.S., you notice most other places have lost the culture of a mom-and-pop music store or an authentic restaurant. Wall Street has these, a beautiful theater, library, art galleries, and more. I wanted to bring all of that together.”

The Wall Street Takeover event had musical roots from the very beginning. “The entire festival was born out of the bands performing,” said the Norwalk-based Yerinides, who is also a member of the Common Council. “We have tons and tons of talent in the area, and I really do feel that the bands and everyone else involved are some of the best. People should know about them.”

One of those bands, Hosemen, is a Stamford-based outfit led by guitarist and lead vocalist Quinn Carpanzano.

“I have been writing music my whole life and wanted to get it out there for people to listen too,” said Carpanzano, who started the band three years ago. Brien Adams plays bass and sings back-up. He’s also a photographer, and his work will be on display during the event. Michael Neidhardt is on drums.

“Our sound is based on alternative rock, but we have hints of metal and post punk and early blues,” the guitarist said.

This will be Hosemen’s fourth time playing at the Wall Street Theater, and the group released a full-length record in April called "Saturday Nite Conformity."

“We intend to follow up with a five-song EP this fall for release in 2020 with some killer new tracks,” Carpanzano said. “This band is only getting better. We plan on playing shows, building a following, and we want to tour, especially in Europe, where our album is well received. Amsterdam, here we come.”

The guitarist explains how the music moves him.

“We do this because we love to do this,” he said. “There is nothing better than getting on stage and closing your eyes and going to that special place that takes everything away. And then finally opening up your eyes and seeing people connecting to your music.”

Mike Horyczun’s Sound Surfing column appears every Saturday in The Hour. Mike can be reached at: news2mh@gmail.com