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Brooklyn Folk Festival
May 18 - 20th, 2012New website and the beginnings of a lineup for this three day festival. Tickets on sale March 1st.
Brooklyn Folk Festival Day 2 Lineup
Saturday, June 11
At the Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition
2:00 PM Tamevate Kapelye (The Foolish Band) 2:30 PM Jake Sanders performs Mexican folk tunes
3:15 PM Larry Hanks & Deborah Robins
4:15 PM The Americans
5:00 PM Hubby Jenkins
5:45 PM Lankandia Cissoko
6:30 PM Walker, Jay & Steve from Baltimore
7:15 PM Black Sea Hotel
8:00 PM The Roulette Sisters
9:00 PM Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton
9:45 PM The Dust Busters
10:30 PM Radio Jarocho
11:15 PM Clifton Hicks
12:00 AM The Whiskey Spitters
Sponsored by:
Brookyn Brewery
Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition - in addition to all of the great events at the Brooklyn Folk Festival, BWAC’s current art show “Convergence” will close after this weekend. Please take some time to see all the great art being presented in this 200+ artist show.
Come down to The Brooklyn Folk Festival in Redhook Brooklyn over the weekend Friday, June 10th- Sunday, June 12th to hear Brooklyn’s best traditional Folk musicians and song writers. You will hear banjos, fiddles, mandolins, guitars, people blowing on jugs and harmonicas, a world champion whistler as well as great original songs. If you want to learn how to play, come down to the afternoon instrumental workshops. The festival costs $20 per day or $55 for 3 days, including the film screenings. Afernoon Workshops are individually priced. The Brooklyn Folk Festival is co-sponsored by Down Home Radio @www.DownHomeRadioShow.com“>www.DownHomeRadioShow.com & The Jalopy Theater.
Day One of the Brooklyn Folk Festival Tonight at Jalopy
Here’s the lineup for tonight:
Friday, June 10th
At The Jalopy Theatre
6:00 PM Winston Fleary and the Big Drum Nation Dance Company
7:00 PM Jay Gandhi
8:00 PM Major Contay & The Canebreak Rattlers
8:45 PM Uncle Monk
9:30 PM Peter Stampfel & The Ether Frolic Mob
10:15 PM Feral Foster
11:00 PM Jake Sanders Sextet
12:00 PM Midnight Mystery Film Screening
See what people have been saying about the Brooklyn Folk Festival:
Eli Smith: Is folk music back? Sure is, especially at the Jalopy Theatre, where Carroll Gardens jams with Red Hook — and where this master of many stringed instruments performs and teaches. To showcase a new crop of folkies, Smith also created the Brooklyn Folk Festival, coming June 10-12 at Jalopy and the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. From Brooklyn Independent Television’s Caught In The Act, episode 38. Original air date: 5/25/2011.
The Fabulous Jalopy Theatre hosts the Brooklyn Folk Festival again this year June 10th-12th, curated by Eli Smith of the Dustbusters. Friday night will be at Jalopy, and Saturday and Sunday will be at the spacious Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) on Van Brunt Street. This show is always a great time- and with a square dance and a ‘banjo toss’, it will have a few surprises this year!
Jalopy presents some fine music this week. On Thursday March 31st at 9 pm treat yourself to The Fiddle and the Banjo: A Night of Duets with Tom Bailey, Melody Berger, Ellery Marshall, Jason Cade, Nathaniel Rowan, Joel Wennerstrom, Russell Durham, Diane Stockwell and Charles Puckette.
Then, Saturday April 2nd, get your first look at what Eli Smith is cooking up for the third annual Brooklyn Folk Festival. The show starts at 9 pm and will feature Æ - music from the mountainous areas of Appalachia and the Republic of Georgia; at 9:45: Blind Boy Paxton with blues, ragtime guitar, and stride piano; and at 10:30: The Dust Busters.
Photo from Chris Low of the Brooklyn Folk Festival. The Calamity Janes were awesome!
Brooklyn Folk Festival Lineup May 21-23, 2010 in Red Hook
Friday May 21st at Jalopy: Saturday May 22nd at Jalopy: Sunday May 23rd in the park (outdoor stage is located near Jalopy on President St. btwn Columbia and Van Brunt) 2:15pm- Rashad Brown – Blues and folk songs Sunday May 23rd at Jalopy: Contact The Jalopy Theater to buy advance tickets. The Jalopy Theater
7:30pm – Strung Out String Band – Oldtime string band
8:15 – George Stavis - Original improvised banjo music
9pm- Salieu Suso – Gambian Kora player
9:30pm- Calamity Janes - Oldtime String band
10:15pm- The Dust Busters – Oldtime string band
11:15pm- Blind Boy Paxton – Blues guitar, stride piano, old time banjo
12am – Ernie Vega – Blues, folk and original songs
Blind Boy Paxton
Afternoon:
2:45pm- Alan Friend – Oldtime banjo and fiddle music
3:30pm- Hubby Jenkins – Blues, folk and original songs
4:15pm- Peter K. Siegel & Eli Smith – Old-time banjo duet
5pm- Bobby Damore and his band – Greek Rebetika music
5:45pm- Isto – Isto music
6:15pm- Willy Gantrim – Blues, folk and original songs
Evening:
7:15pm- Bob Malenky – Blues and folk songs
8pm – Greeting from Borough President Marty Markowitz
8:15pm- Elizabeth Butters – Ballad singer and guitarist
8:45pm- Banjorama – Funky banjo band
9:30pm – Feral Foster - Blues, folk and original songs
10:15pm- Clifton Hicks – Oldtime banjo player and singer from North Carolina
11pm- Radio Jarocho - Son and Fandango music and dance from Jarocho, Mexico
12am- The Bill Murray Experience - Early jazz and popular music
3pm- Sam Doores – Blues, folk and original songs
4pm- Square Dance! – Dave Harvey of NYCBarnDance.com will call the dance, The Dust Busters will be the band.
5pm- Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues – Jug band traditionals and originals
5:45pm- Stephen Strohmeier – Blues, folk and original songs
6:30pm- East River String Band - Country Blues duet
3pm- Group Singing with Heather Wood, Ann Price and Alan Friend from the Folk Music Society of NY
4pm- Old-time Banjo Workshop with John Cohen
7pm- Pat Conte – Blues guitar and oldtime banjo player
8pm- John Cohen – Old time banjo
9pm- The Tillers – Oldtimey and original songs
9:45pm- The Dough Rollers – Country blues and oldtime music
10:30pm- Mamie Minch Blues, folk and original songs
Pricing:
$15 per day for the main stage evening concerts, or $40 for all three evenings.
$5 per day for Saturday afternoon concerts and Sunday afternoon outdoor stage, square dance included!
315 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
(718) 395-3214
