Look Out! The Folk Festival Is Coming Up October 23rd – 25th Online Only! Watch From Home!
All concert performances will be free! (with donations gladly accepted) + workshops (tix required), presentations, listening parties, films and more!
Presented by the Jalopy Theatre & School of Music
The festival performances will be broadcast on several platforms including Facebook, Vimeo and Youtube.
Workshops will be taught via Zoom.
Schedule:
Friday, Oct. 23rd
8pm - Eva Salina & Peter Stan - Balkan vocal and accordion duet
8:45pm - Bruce Molsky - Fiddle, banjo and guitar songs, ballads, and tunes
9:30pm - Special Guest, TBA!
10:15pm - Puppet Show! with the Boxcutter Collective
Saturday, Oct. 24th
Afternoon
Workshops:
1pm - Workshop TBA
2pm - Fiddle workshop with Bruce Molsky - Learn old-time fiddle styles from an acclaimed fiddler
3pm - Songs in Struggle with organizers from the Poor People’s Campaign - Learn about the role of music in grassroots organizing for social change, and sing along with lots of great songs! 100% of proceeds from the workshop go to the Poor People’s Campaign.
Performance/Lecture (ticket required):
4:30pm Dom Flemons presents Black Cowboys - Singer and multi-instrumentalist will sing and discuss the music of Black cowboys in the America west.
Listening Party:
5pm - Dust-to-Digital presents: The Harry Smith B-Sides listening party. Label founders Lance and April Ledbetter will discuss and play selections from their brand new box set, which features the flip side of every original 78rpm record featured on Harry Smith’s influential Anthology of American Folk Music.
Evening
7:30pm Nora Brown - Songs, ballads & tunes with both fretless and fretted banjo
8:15pm Aaron Frazer (of Durand Jones & The Indications) - Folk and original songs, acoustic set
9pm: Jerron Blind Boy Paxton - Blues, ragtime, old time, on guitar, banjo, harmonica, fiddle and piano
10pm Film screening: Musical Holdouts – Courtesy of Folkstreams.net – This film by John Cohen on American traditional music features varied individuals and groups who have not become part of the “melting pot” of American society. From front porch banjo pickers in Appalachia and the Bluegrass Festival circuit to black children on the Carolina sea islands, cowboys, and Cheyenne and Comanche Indians, they have all retained their cultural identities despite pressures from the mass media and popular culture.
Sunday, Oct. 25th
Afternoon
Noon - Dan + Claudia Zanes - Music for children and families
Workshops:
1:30pm - Harmony Singing workshop with Phillis Elkind – Gather your pod and learn to sing in harmony with your friends and family members. This workshop will be taught via Zoom.
“Singing harmony requires good listening skills. We’ll do some exercises to improve our ears, in the context of harmony. Then we’ll learn a song – its melody and harmony parts. Your singing will be on mute – but you’ll be singing along with recorded parts that will bring the harmony into your home.
3pm - Banjo workshop with Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton – Learn finger-picking banjo styles with a contemporary master of the classic banjo style, who rarely teaches. The class is formatted as a presentation by Jerron, followed by questions from students.
Class size limited to 25 people. Tickets are $40
4:30pm Finger-picking Guitar workshop with Valerie Turner of Piedmont Blūz – Finger-picking country blues guitar master teaches a variety of styles. Suitable for all skill levels. This workshop will be taught via Zoom.
Evening
7:30pm Piedmont Blūz - Country blues duet
8:15pm Ali Dineen - Original and folk songs with guitar and piano
9pm Feral Foster - Original and folk songs with guitar
10pm Film Screening - Medicine Fiddle - Courtesy of Folkstreams.net - This film explores the music and dance heritage of the Fur Trade among Native and Métis families on both sides of the U.S. and Canadian border. Fiddling and step (clog) dancing was introduced to Native peoples by European fur traders, lumberjacks and homesteaders in the 1600s. Over the past two centuries, in the confines of family gatherings on remote reservations, this music has survived and has permeated the cultural memory of mixed-blood descendants. Some of the music and dance has absorbed a Native musical influence, and a Native spiritual culture sustains it.
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 health crisis, we have moved the Brooklyn Folk Festival to be an online-only presentation, filmed live on stage at the Jalopy Theatre.
There will be no in-theatre audience – we will be live streaming the festival on the world wide web in HD video and sound on several platforms including Facebook, Vimeo.
Workshops are ticketed and will be taught via Zoom.
Now you can tune into the Brooklyn Folk Festival from anywhere. And it’s free! Tell friends, and look out for more updates coming soon!
