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Look Out! The Folk Fest will be Nov. 10th-12th, 2023 @ St. Ann's Church. See you in the fall!
Look Out! The Folk Fest will be Nov. 10th-12th, 2023 @ St. Ann's Church. See you in the fall!
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Look Out! The Folk Fest will be Nov. 10th-12th, 2023 @ St. Ann's Church. See you in the fall!
Presented by The Jalopy Theatre & School of Music

Look Out! The Folk Fest will be Nov. 10th-12th, 2023 @ St. Ann's Church. See you in the fall!

  • Lineup
  • Schedule
  • Tickets
  • Location
  • About
  • Donate
  • Banjo Toss Video Game

Lineup

Photo of the 2016 festival by Brian Gelnter

2023 LINEUP TBA!!

The 2022 Brooklyn Folk Festival Lineup was:

Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Amythyst Kiah
Jerron “Blindboy” Paxton
Nora Brown
Dueto Dos Rosas
Inkarayku
Ba Ban Chinese Music Society
Dan + Claudia Zanes
The Lovestruck Balladeers
Ukrainian Village Voices
Clinton Davis
Brett Ratliff
The Down Hill Strugglers
Feral Foster
The Other Years
Ever-Lovin’ Jug Band

Tim Eriksen
Ernie “Papa” Vega

Megg Farrell
Taylor Plas

Jacob Wysoski
Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts
Stillhouse Serenade
Bob Malenky
Jackson Lynch Band
The Lil’ Dogies

Old-time string band jam session, lead by fiddler Stephanie Coleman
Artie’s Jug Workshop
Square Dance!
Salsa Dance! w/ Willie Martinez and the NYC Salsa All Stars
The John Cohen Collection at the Library of Congress w/ Maya Lerman and Todd Harvey
Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History with author Kristina Gaddy
THE BANJO TOSS – Banjo Throwing Contest!

The Jalopy Chorus
The Boxcutter Collective
Alan Lomax Archive/Association for Cultural Equity
Dust-to-Digital
All This is a Record of My Search: John Cohen at 90 /Music / Films / Photographs


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Press

  • Same As It Ever Was: Eli Smith and Brooklyn's "Down Home" Music Scene - Brooklyn Magazine
  • Keep Folk Music Weird - The New Yorker
  • Gothic Revival Revised - The Brooklyn Rail
  • Traditional Folk Music With a Brooklyn Accent - Wall Street Journal
  • 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
  • A Pleasant Surprise: Brooklyn Folk Fest 2016 - 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

  • Just posted a photo @ Jalopy Theater https://t.co/nmxRfm1R52over a year ago
  • TOMORROW!!! Jalopy Theatre’s doors are back open with Roots n’ Ruckus this Wednesday, 1/12 its Free! 8:00pm -… https://t.co/DwmHdYt7khover a year ago
  • Just posted a photo @ St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church https://t.co/jdx986wNlnover a year ago
  • Jackson Lynch’s “All By My Ownsome” is out now! On special edition vinyl, digital download, streaming at… https://t.co/kvvZO6qILOover a year ago
  • RT @JalopyBrooklyn: Jackson Lynch’s “All By My Ownsome” is out now! On special edition vinyl, digital download, streaming at @JalopyRecords…over a year ago
  • Big day today!!! @bklynfolkfest at @stannsbrooklyn presented by @jalopybrooklyn noon-midnight tix and the door or… https://t.co/VtWw42e5Lvover a year ago
  • Just posted a photo @ St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church https://t.co/RzxiTaZW0Jover a year ago
  • @JalopyBrooklyn @YouTube Yeah!!! Nora Brown on live now with Paste!! See her play tonight live and in person at the… https://t.co/wJFEWcyoIQover a year ago

2022 Festival Sponsors

The Folk Music Scociety of NYBoylan BottlingSixpoint BreweryDown Home Radio show

Brooklyn Folk Festival

St. Ann's Church
157 Montague St, (b'twn Henry and Clinton Sts)
Brooklyn, NY

lynette@JalopyTheatre.org

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