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Brooklyn Folk Fest Sneak Preview Concert and Benefit – MARCH 23
Come out to The Fabulous Jalopy Theatre on Friday, March 23rd to get a sneak peak at what the 2012 Brooklyn Folk Festival has to offer! We are thrilled to be joined by these local acts:
8pm – Elizabeth Butters
9pm – Four O’Clock Flowers
10pm – The Whiskey Spitters
11pm – The Dust Busters
Tickets are only $10. Click here to buy tickets! All proceeds from the event will benefit the production of this year’s festival taking place Friday, May 18th to Sunday, May 20th in Downtown Brooklyn. For more information about the festival, visit www.brooklynfolkfest.com.
Help Kickstart the Folk Festival! Visit Kickstarter for more information.
This weekend Jalopy Theatre has a write up in the New York Times:
Like some soulful machine stalled at the mouth of the Battery Tunnel, the Jalopy brings a joyful ruckus to the edge of Red Hook, Brooklyn. In rowdy roots-music style, this theater, bar and clubhouse conservatory dares visitors to be carried, shouting and singing, toward jubilation.
The piece includes a great slideshow of pictures.
The Whistling Wolves have two shows coming up in March:
Saturday March 10th, show begins at 7:30 pm (Wolves are probably on around 9 pm) $5 cover:
Chris Q. Murphy Birthday Extravaganza: A great night of local bands, including a special Loudon Wainwright tribute. The Jalopy Music Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn
Saturday March 24th, show begins at 8 pm (Wolves are probably on around 11) $8:
Brooklyn Old-Time/Bluegrass Extravaganza: Reprise!! A repeat performance of this sold-out triple bill with the Union St. Preservation Society and the Third Wheel Band Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Brooklyn
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 City Limits tonight, Saturday, January 28th at Jalopy! with Roulette Sisters, Spuyten Duyvil, Pesky J Nixon and Newton Gang. More info at Brooklyn Country
Jason Cade: The Weal & Woe, Gangsta Grass, John Hartford Tribute this month
Brooklyn Fiddler Jason Cade writes in about a few upcoming shows featuring his various projects:
On Jan. 14, Cade and his bandmates will celebrate The Weal & Woe’s debut EP release (12” vinyl and CD), The One to Blame, at the Parkside Lounge. The fabulous Roulette Sisters get the party started at 9 pm, and TWAW play at 10 pm.
On Jan. 20, Gangstagrass will be hosting a launch party at Pianos for Season 3 of Justified (which features our bluegrass-hiphop music as the theme song and in commercials). Lots of special guests and new jams! Openers Apocalypse Five and Dime play at 10 pm, Gangstagrass goes on at 11 pm.
On Jan. 27, Cade will be participating again in the Annual Tribute to John Hartford at Jalopy Theater. Hosted by Jordan Shapiro and Jonah Bruno, this is always a fun night with a bunch of great performers. With esteemed bass-player Jason Sypher, Cade will be playing three traditional old-time tunes that Hartford recorded.
Not to be missed: Sweetback Sisters Christmas Sing-a-long at Jalopy, December 11th
Ring in the holiday season at Jalopy with the Sweetback Sisters on Sunday night, December 11th. This young group of stellar Brooklyn-based musicians performs an incredible array of traditional old-time & honky tonk rock music reminiscent of the 1940’s & 50’s. Complete with hot licks and sweet girl-on-girl harmonies, they’re sure to warm the heart of all you modern day cowboys and girls. The Sweetback Sisters line-up features the lavish voices of Zara Bode and Emily Miller with an all-star cast of instrumentalists including: West Virginian triple threat Jesse Milnes; Stefan “da guns” Amidon on drums; Philly’s stringed slayer Ross Bellenoit on rippin’ Telecaster, and Bridget Kearny on bass.
At this special concert they will sing- and invite you to sing- great country Christmas classics. This show sells out- get tickets today!
Down Home Radio is proud announce a benefit concert for the Occupy Wall Street movement, scheduled for Sunday November 13th at The Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn at 7 pm. The proceeds of this concert will go to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The concert will feature:
7pm Gregory Nissen - pianist, composer and part of the OWS Arts & Culture Working Group.
7:20 Eric Koniger- Blues guitarist and volunteer at the OWS medical tent.
7:30 Brotherhood of the Jugband Blues - Great jug band music and original songs!
8:10 Veveritse Brass Band - Balkan brass band!
8:45: Kristen Andreassen - Old Time, Country and original songs.
9:10pm The Dust Busters - Old Time string band.
9:50pm The Whiskey Spitters - Old Time, Blues, Jugband Music and more!
10:15pm Peter Stampfel & The Ether Frolic Mob - Wish for a potato! Incredible banjo twang!
10:50pm Feral Foster - Blues, Folk and original songs
11:30pm Tik Tok - original songs from Berlin and New York – guitar and banjo, ” sounds like tin pans and chicken bones.”
Tickets are available at the door or by calling the Jalopy Theater at (718) 395-3214.
Learn to sing, clog or play an instrument this winter at Jalopy Theatre and School of Music
Jalopy Theatre and School of Music has posted its winter term class schedule. As an alum of a few classes, I can tell you it is time and money well spent, and is the best antidote there is to the stress of big city livin’. Learn to sing in harmony, finger pick the blues, frail on the banjo, strum the ukelele or even how to clog! Classes start next week and run through the new year. You can register online here.
Here’s the lineup:
Monday November 14 - January 16
Country Harmony Singing I: 7pm, Taught by Val Mindel
Country Harmony Singing II: 8pm, Taught by Val Mindel
Mississippi John Hurt and Beyond, Intermediate Guitar Stylings: 8pm, Taught by Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton
Tuesday November 8 - January 10
Mandolin I: 7pm Taught by Ernie Vega
Ensemble Class I: 7pm Taught by Eli Smith
Ensemble Class II: 8pm Taught by Eli Smith
Banjo I: 7pm Taught by Hilary Hawke
Banjo II: 8pm Taught by Hilary Hawke
Wednesday November 9 - January 11
Fiddle III: 7pm Taught by Betsy Plum
Banjo I: 7pm Taught by Eli Smith
Banjo III: 8pm Old Time Stylings taught by Eli Smith
Guitar II: 8pm Taught by Geoffrey R. Wiley
Clogging Class: 8pm Taught by Kristin Andres
Thursday November 10 - January 19
Mandolin I: 7pm Taught by Ernie Vega
Fiddle I: 7pm Taught by Charlie Burnham
Fiddle II: 8pm Taught by Charlie Burnham
Nuts & Bolts - Music Theory : 8pm Taught by Doug Skinner
Wednesday Nov 10 – Dec 8 @7pm
Fiddle IV: Irish Fiddle Taught by Cleek Schrey
Wednesday Dec 15 – Jan 19 @7pm
Fiddle IV: Klezmer Fiddle
Taught by Craig Judelman
Friday November 16 - January 4
Ukulele I: 7pm Taught by Doug Skinner
Ukulele II: 8pm Taught by Doug Skinner
Saturday November 10 - January 29
Guitar I: 1pm Taught by Geoffrey R. Wiley
Guitar II: 2pm Taught by Geoffrey R. Wiley
Guitar III: 3pm Taught by Geoffrey R. Wiley
Finger Picking Guitar I: 4pm Taught by Ernie Vega
Finger Picking Guitar II: 5pm Taught by Ernie Vega
8th Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival Friday, September 30th - Sunday, October 2nd
Alex Battles is back with the 8th Brooklyn Country Music Festival again this year, though the venue has changed. The show will start at Hank’s Saloon, and then move to the Atlantic Attic for Sunday afternoon and Jalopy Theatre for Sunday evening.
Here’s the lineup (perhaps more legible than the above…)
Friday at Hank’s Saloon:
8 pm Jan Bell
9 Megan Palmer
10 Smokey & The Bandit 2: Electric Boogaloo
11 Michaela Anne
12 JP & The Gilberts
Saturday at Hank’s Saloon:
7 pm Old Time Firing Squad
9 Seth Kessel, man!
10 The Great Thomas Bailey
1030 Brownbird Rudy Relic
11 SIT & Die Co.
12 Uncle Leon & The Alibis
Sunday at the Atlantic Antic street festival:
12 pm Brotherhood Of The Jug Band Blues
2 Jack Grace Band
4 Alex Battles & The Whisky Rebellion
Sunday night at the Jalopy Theatre:
8:30 pm Kerri Lowe
9:30 Cal Folger Day
10:30 Jackson Lynch
11:30 Foster & Bananas
HIlary Hawke & The Flipsides: Groundhog
You can catch Hilary playing with one of her various band projects:
Hilary Hawke & the Flipsides @ Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia St., Brooklyn, NY
9:30 PM
Tickets: $10
Also Playing: The Hunts
Saturday, October 8, 2011
M Shanghai Stringband-Monthly show! @ Jalopy
315 Columbia St., Brooklyn, NY
8:00 PM
Friday, October 28, 2011
Hawke & Owl @ Two Boots Pizza
514 2nd St., Brooklyn, NY 11215
10:00 PM
Tickets: Free
Great news from the Fabulous Jalopy Theatre and School of Music- they are expanding, taking over the former Moonshine Bar next door! That means the high church of roots music just got a fellowship hall. It will open sometime this fall and will be known as the Big Time Jalopy Tavern. Keep an ear out for more, and celebrate Jalopy’s 5th Anniversary bringing the sounds of roots music to Red Hook this Friday, September 30th.
The official party starts at 8 pm, but come at 6 pm for the opening of a new art show by Robin Hoffman, Jalopy’s in-house artist. The opening will also feature a documentary film by Elif Alp’s documentary short film, “The Fabulous Jalopy,” which has been accepted in to the 2011 Coney Island Film Festival. During the opening, the M. Shanghai band will entertain. Get your tickets here!
8pm Feral Foster
8:30pm Whiskey Spitters
9:15pm Mamie Minch
10pm- Little Brothers with Pat & Joe
11pm - Radio Jarocho
The Whistling Wolves are playing at The Jalopy Theatre, this Sunday September 11th at 7:30pm, opening up for the inimitable April Verch. Enjoy their old time sounds and excellent vocal harmony!
Union Street Preservation Society EP release concert at Jalopy July 24
Brooklyn-based string band Union Street Preservation Society kicks off the release of their debut EP Sunday, July 24th at 7:30pm at the celebrated Jalopy Theatre in Red Hook. Fresh from sharing the stage with Greensky Bluegrass, Cornmeal and Max Creek, the quintet is “tasty and alive” (GlideMagazine.com) — their spirited vocals and runaway-train instrumentals breathe fire and soul into their original blend of bluegrass, blues and early jazz. With fellow Americana roots group The Third Wheel Band starting off the evening, it’s sure to be a night of electricity and a rip-roaring, foot-stomping good show. 315 Columbia St., Brooklyn, NY 11231. $5 cover. More information is here.
