04/17/2015-04/19/2015 8pm-12am
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague St, Brooklyn 11201

Presented by Down Home Radio Show and the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, the 3-day festival features 30 bands, vocal and instrumental workshops, a family-friendly square dance, jam sessions, film screenings, the famous Banjo Toss contest and more!

The Brooklyn Folk Festival will feature the best in old-time string-band music, folk, blues, song writers, jug band, bluegrass, traditional Irish and Balkan music, and much more!

See full schedule, get tickets and find more information:
http://www.brooklynfolkfest.com/

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. Kids under 5 are free!

MUSICAL LINE-UP:

FRIDAY, APRIL 17
8:00pm: Jackson Lynch
Blues guitar, old time fiddle and banjo breakdowns

8:45pm: The Horse-Eyed Men
Original folk/country outer-space music

9:30pm: Michael Hurley (musician)
Legendary folk musician, needs no introduction!

10:15pm: Jerron “Blindboy” Paxton
Country blues, fiddle and banjo

11:00pm: Terry Waldo’s Rum House Band
Legendary early Jazz and Ragtime pianist with his band

11:45pm: Feral Foster and His Band
Excellent songwriting based solidly in Blues, Folk, Gospel and Balkan music

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 18
1:30pm: Wyndham Baird
Folksongs, blues, and more!

2:15pm: King Isto’s Tropical String Band
Hawaiian/tropical stringband music

3:00pm: Ryan Spearman
Banjo and fiddle music, old and new

3:45pm: Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues
Raucous jug band music! Traditional and original

4:30pm: 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!

WORKSHOPS AND ACTIVITIES:
1:00pm: Old Time Jam Session (bring your instrument!)

2:30pm: Songs of Freedom with Matt Callahan and Yvonne Moore – Discovering the Irish Revolutionary songs of James Connolly!

3:15pm: Folk City! A presentation about the history of folk music in New York by Stephen Petrus from the Museum of the City of New York

4-5:30pm: “Singing in Harmony”, Vocal Harmony Workshop with Don Friedman and Phyllis Elkind

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SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 18

8:00PM 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 Museum

9:15PM The Cactus Blossoms – Original and Traditional country songs, sung in harmony

10:00PM Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens

11:00PM Souren Baronian and band – Middle and Near Eastern Matt Dallow Music

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 19

2:00pm: Uncle Shlomo’s Brooklyn Kids Concert!

2:45pm: Hoodoo Honeydrippers
Country Blues duet

3:30pm: Art Rosenbaum
Grammy Award winning musician and folklorist

4:15pm: “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 Guinea

5:45pm: Bruce Molsky
Old time fiddle, banjo and guitar

6:30pm: The Four o’clock Flowers
Blues and Folk duet

WORKSHOPS AND ACTIVITIES:
1:00pm: Banjo Toss – The famous banjo throwing competition. Win a free banjo! Assemble at 1pm in front of the venue for the parade to the banjo tossing arena!

2:30pm: A Selections of Films by Alan Lomax – Nathan Salsburg, curator of the Lomax Archive will screen several folkloric films

3:30pm: Fiddle Workshop with Bruce Molsky

5:00pm: Old Time Banjo Workshop with Art Rosenbaum (Grammy award winning musician and folklorist)

6:30pm Square Dance!

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SUNDAY EVENING, APRIL 19

7:30pm: The Down Hill Strugglers with John Cohen
old time string band

8:15pm: Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel (of the Holy Modal Rounders)

9:00pm: The Whiskey Spitters
Old time, Blues, and Jug Band Music

9:45pm: Litvakus
Klezmer/Jewish music of Belarus, beautiful newly researched and rediscovered music

TICKETS & MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.brooklynfolkfest.com