The Brooklyn Folk Festival is back for its 7th annual installment. The 3-day festival includes
The Brooklyn Folk Festival is back for its 7th annual installment. The 3-day festival includes 30 bands, vocal and instrumental workshops, a family-friendly square dance and swing dance, jam sessions, film screenings, the famous Banjo Toss contest.The Brooklyn Folk Festival will feature old-time string-band music, folk, blues, song writers, jug band, bluegrass, traditional Irish and Balkan music, and more. This year the festival will be held at the beautiful historic St. Ann’s Church located at 157 Montague St. between Clinton and Henry in Brooklyn Heights. The venue is wheelchair accessible. A full 3-day pass is $80; individual show tickets start at $20. More here.Here’s the lineup:Friday April 17th:8:00PM Jackson Lynch – Blues guitar, old time fiddle and banjo breakdowns8:45PM Horse Eyed Men – Original folk/country outer-space music9:30PM Michael Hurley – Legendary folk musician, needs no introduction!10:15PM Jerron “Blindboy” Paxton - Country blues, fiddle and banjo11:00PM Terry Waldo’s Rum House Band - Legendary early Jazz and Ragtime pianist with his band11:45PM Feral Foster and His Band – Excellent songwriting based solidly in Blues, Folk, Gospel and Balkan musicSaturday April 18th: Afternoon Concerts1:30PM Wyndham Baird – Folksongs, blues, and more!2:15PM King Isto’s Tropical String Band – Hawaiian/tropical stringband music3:00PM Ryan Spearman – Banjo and fiddle music, old and new3:45PM Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues – Raucous jug band music! Traditional and original4:30PM Frank Fairfield and Zac Sokolow – American stringband music from the great state of California!5:15PM Suzy & Eric Thompson – Folk, Blues and Bluegrass music, from the great state of California!6:00PM Tom Marion with Frank Fairfield – Italian and American string music featuring polkas, waltzes, mazurkas!6:45PM Ozark Highballers – Amazing old time string band from the great state of Arkansas!Evening Concerts8:00PM M. Chad Levitt – St. Ann’s amazing pipe organist will play the Church’s huge pipe organ!8:30PM Pat Conte – Direct from the Secret Museum9:15PM The Cactus Blossoms – Original and Traditional country songs, sung in harmony10:00PM Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens11:00PM Souren Baronian and band – Middle and Near Eastern MusicSunday April 19th: Afternoon Concerts2:00PM Uncle Shlomo’s Brooklyn Kids – a traditional music ensemble comprised of some of Shlomo Pestcoe’s young private music students (ages 9 – 16) and his grownup musician friends who are all highly acclaimed local performers.2:45PM Hoodoo Honeydrippers – Country Blues duet3:30PM Art Rosenbaum - Grammy Award winning musician and folklorist4:15PM “Treasure from the Archive Roadshow” - Live performance of music from the collections of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.5:00PM Famoro Dioubate – Djeli playing Mande Balafon music from Guinea5:45PM Bruce Molsky – Old time fiddle, banjo and guitar6:30PM Four o’clock Flowers - Blues and Folk duetEvening Concerts7:30PM Down Hill Strugglers with John Cohen - old time string band8:15PM Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel (of the Holy Modal Rounders)9:00PM The (Whiskey) Spitters - Old, Blues and Jug Band Music9:45PM Litvakus – Klezmer/Jewish music of Belarus, beautiful newly researched and rediscovered music -- source link
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