Thanks so much to Amanda Petrusich at The New Yorker magazine for her excellent article about the 2017 Brooklyn Folk Festival: Keep Folk Music Weird By Amanda Petrusich April 19, 2017 The Brooklyn-based musician and producer Eli Smith curates the Brooklyn Folk Festival’s offerings with an eye toward the diverse, the spontaneous, the countercultural, and […]
Dear all – A profound thank you from us the organizers to all of the bands who played and all of the people who came out for the 2017 Brooklyn Folk Festival. Thank you!! It was a wonderful, powerful and affecting 3 days of music and performances. And don’t forget to check out the live […]
Hello friends – We need your help to make the Brooklyn Folk Festival happen! Come be a part of the festival by volunteering. If you do a volunteer shift you get free admission to a full day of the festival. We need people to help with various parts of the festival, including watching the door […]
A shiny new album sent every 4 weeks! 13 albums like gifts given all year long by great American folk, roots, blues & country artists! Jalopy Records is starting an ambitious new project to release a new album every 4 weeks. These will be albums featuring artists who make up the fabric of the contemporary […]
Jalopy Theatre & School of Music celebrates it’s 10th anniversary with a weekend of music. Concert tickets are on sale now: Blind Boy Paxton, Hubby Jenkins of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings band the Downhill Strugglers, and 35+ more folk music acts plus art opening, workshops, film screening, & more this weekend. Buy tickets […]
Thank you so much to all the bands, volunteers, and everyone that came out for making the 2016 Brooklyn Folk Festival the best one yet!!! See you next year!!! For lots more great folk and world music through out the year, plus classes in various instruments and musical styles, please visit us at The Jalopy […]
Here’s some of what happened at the 2015 festival. See you in April!
