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Support the Brooklyn Folk Fest!

November 21, 2018 Written by Eli Smith
Support the Brooklyn Folk Fest!

  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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Photos from 2018!

June 20, 2018 Written by Eli Smith
Photos from 2018!

Thank you so much to everybody that came out for the 2018 Brooklyn Folk Festival and made it a big success!  We are already planning for the 2019 festival! Meanwhile, here are some great photos from the 2018 festival, courtesy of photographers Brian Geltner, Jack Hirschorn and Jeremy Kohn:  

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Thank you!

May 18, 2018 Written by Eli Smith
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 […]

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Limited Edition Posters!

March 26, 2018 Written by Eli Smith
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 […]

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Films at the Folk Fest!

March 12, 2018 Written by Eli Smith
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 […]

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Hotel Accommodations for the Festival

February 26, 2018 Written by Eli Smith
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 […]

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2018 Folk Fest Lineup Announced!

January 10, 2018 Written by Eli Smith
2018 Folk Fest Lineup Announced!

Many thanks to the Brooklyn Vegan for announcing our 2018 lineup of bands!  Check out their piece at this link. And Click here to check out the full Brooklyn Folk Fest 2018 schedule!

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Bklyn Folk Fest in The New Yorker Mag...

May 28, 2017 Written by Eli Smith
Bklyn Folk Fest in The New Yorker Magazine

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 […]

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Thank you!!

May 5, 2017 Written by Eli Smith
Thank you!!

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 […]

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Jalopy Records 7 Inch Subscription Se...

October 1, 2016 Written by John Bruneau

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 […]

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Press

  • Brooklyn Folk Festival Celebrates the Diverse Genre - AMNY
  • That’s All Folk! - Bklyner
  • Folk Music is Music of the People - Red Hook Star Revue
  • Brooklyn Folk Festival Delights - BHB
  • Keep Folk Music Weird - The New Yorker
  • Gothic Revival Revised - The Brooklyn Rail
  • Traditional Folk Music With a Brooklyn Accent - Wall Street Journal
  • Same As It Ever Was: Eli Smith and Brooklyn's "Down Home" Music Scene - Brooklyn Magazine
  • For Its Eighth Year, the Brooklyn Folk Festival Responds in Song to Signs of the Times - Vie Magazine
  • Fiddling With Genre: How The Brooklyn Folk Festival Redefines Community - Brooklyn Magazine
  • A Folk Festival Grows in Brooklyn - The Indypendent
  • For Its Eighth Year, the Brooklyn Folk Festival Responds in Song to Signs of the Times - The Village Voice
  • The 8th Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival - Elmore Magazine
  • 2018 Brooklyn Folk Festival: Featured Event - New York Hotels

Festival Tweets

  • Double trouble at the @BrooklynJalopy and @JalopyTavern ! #rootsandruckus with @FeralFoster in the theater, Frankie… https://t.co/slor5Qc8dZ58 minutes ago
  • Don’t miss this super group, Sat. April 6th at the Folk Fest! Lovestruck Balladeers are the band the mob boss hired… https://t.co/gzHHf5hIaKyesterday
  • The Ozark Highballers! - Saturday April 6th at the Folk Fest! A rare New York appearance by this great Arkansas str… https://t.co/zejbi7WBqe3 days ago
  • Don't miss Jontavious Willis, live at the Brooklyn Folk Fest, April 5th! Get your advance tix now and see the compl… https://t.co/gxys3HrfTK4 days ago
  • Nora plays the Folk Fest on Saturday, April 6th! “Little Nora Brown has a host of roots music legends pouring out o… https://t.co/AkofB6wZD65 days ago
  • https://t.co/A7OpyS2Osu5 days ago
  • RT @ClifHicksBanjo: UK #folkmusic lovers should go see my associate Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton at @BlackDeerFest this summer. #blues #banj…6 days ago
  • Simeonie Keenainak the great Inuit button accordion player of Pangnirtung: Kajjaanaqtuq https://t.co/UrzoZanXw26 days ago

2019 Festival Sponsors

rose brandThe Folk Music Scociety of NYshowman fabricators
brooklyn brewery Howard Gilman Foundation
Brooklyn Arts CouncilDown Home Radio show

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