Donate Now! The Brooklyn Folk Festival is the largest and longest running folk festival in New York City’s history and the biggest yearly production of the non-profit Jalopy Theatre and School of Music. The 11th annual festival is happening April 5th-7th 2019, at the beautiful St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights. It will feature […]
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Thank you!
Dear Friends, Thank you so much for coming to the 10th Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival. It was a truly wonderful year and a great way to celebrate a decade of our festival. Thank you to all of the artists, volunteers, staff and the audience for making such a magic, unlikely, long planned, spontaneous, beautiful, successful […]
Limited Edition Posters!
wAs a special part of the festival this 10th year, we have asked several artist friends to make limited edition, alternative Brooklyn Folk Festival posters. Get your specially printed copy at the festival!! Limited edition! By Jose Delhart By Ernesto Gomez By Em New By Skylar Gibbons-Reich By Eric “Eyeball” Richardson By Samoa Wilson By […]
Films at the Folk Fest!
We have some wonderful films showing at the Brooklyn Folk Festival this year!! Films you won’t see anywhere else in New York!! Be sure to check out: Gold – 50th anniversary screening!! Filmed in August of 1968 in the remote foothills of the Sierra Mountains this wacky piece of celluloid captures the essence of the […]
Hotel Accommodations for the Festival
Coming from out of town for the Brooklyn Folk Festival? Or wanna make it a staycation?!? The Brooklyn Folk Festival has discount codes for two hotels near the festival site. See below for all the information, including the promotional codes to get the discount on your reservation. THE RED LION INN AND SUITES 279 BUTLER […]
Bklyn Folk Fest in The New Yorker Mag...
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 […]
Jalopy Records 7 Inch Subscription Se...
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 […]