The premise looks a little lame: Warren is honoring a man who was born there, moved  away with his family as a toddler, and later became famous — through no relationship with, nor consequence of his birthplace –  by naming a downtown alley after him. The celebration, however, will be first class.

Grohl was two when his family left their east side home; some relatives still live in the area.

David Grohl was touring as the drummer for the punk band Scream when he was ‘discovered’ by the founding members of the breakout alternative rock band Nirvana.  When Scream disbanded he joined Nirvana and was seen by them as critical to their future success (including, in short order, replacing Michael Jackson at the top of the Billboard charts) beginning in the early 90s with their “Nevermind” album.

Grohl later formed the multi-Grammy-winning rock band, Foo Fighters (the nebulous date for that event being accepted as the 1995 release of their self-titled debut album) playing work he had created during his Nirvana tenure, as lead singer and guitarist. They are still huge.

He has not committed to attending the dedication of “his” alley, at the conclusion of the week of music, July 26 – August 1. (The Foo Fighters are scheduled to play East Rutherford, NJ on Wednesday, and then Baltimore, Aug. 9.)

The festival honoring him should be something special: seven days of music on Warren’s Courthouse Square, each day with a different genre/theme of art. Main Street Warren (mainstreetwarren.org) is hosting the event, and, with Trumbull Art Gallery has painted the (soon-to-be) David Grohl Alley running along the side of the downtown parking garage. They have scheduled an impressive show.

Sunday’s performances of Gospel music by three church choirs, the Warren Community Choir and Michael Austin Gospel Ensemble run from 2 to about 6 p.m. Monday (Christian rock), Tuesday (mix), Wednesday (hard rock) and Thursday (solo, duo and acoustic) will feature 21 performers, including some of the area’s best. Two kids’ groups will open the stage on Thursday at 2:15 p.m. Friday’s lineup of rock bands, starting at one o’clock and running til 12:30 a.m., is headlined by Away from Eden, Grand Fury, Sequel and The Kellys. Saturday’s rock rolls from 11 a.m. until the HouseBand wraps it up around 6 p.m., with the alley dedication at 4 p.m.

JamBrain is duly impressed by the ambition and hard work of Main Street Warren, led by Jennifer Campbell. Even without Grohl, Music is Art will be one of the area’s premier festivals.

Just think what it would be like if he showed. (Dream sequence:) Smack Alice is really getting going with their set, and the larger-than-expected crowd is rockin’, when a stretch limo tries nudging into the venue. Murmurs wash through the crowd, Is it him? And then, excitedly, when the guards admit the limo, It’s him! It’s him! The band soldiers on, but they are now background music to the pandemonium, when Grohl, and then the whole, famous band step out, and, (why not) caught up in the moment, they agree to borrow some instruments and play one, Just one song. Now THAT would be quite a coup.

Enough of that, though. The for-sure part of Music is Art is plenty festive and musical enough.