Brooklyn Folk Festival

Presented by the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music “Diverse, spontaneous, counter-cultural, and trenchant… One of the most vital and spiritually sound folk-music events in the country.” - The New Yorker Magazine, April 2017 The 10th annual Brooklyn Folk Festival will feature Pokey LaFarge making his first appearance a the festival, Jerron Blind Boy Paxton…

NYC FILM PREMIERE, 8:00pm: Different Johns – a documentary film that explores the different lives of John Cohen: folk musician, photographer, teacher, filmmaker and one of the faces of the Beat Generation. The film shines a light on America: its artists, its history, its reality – through this story of a un-conventional American. 7:30pm Doors…

The Brooklyn Folk Festival presents the best in American and world folk music, a celebration of down-home music, cultural diversity and memory. The Festival is presented by the Jalopy Theatre & School of Music, a grassroots community space that is a music venue, music school, instrument store and record label. Since 2009, the Jalopy has created…

The Brooklyn Folk Festival presents the best in American and world folk music, a celebration of down-home music, cultural diversity and memory. The Festival is presented by the Jalopy Theatre & School of Music, a grassroots community space that is a music venue, music school, instrument store and record label. Since 2009, the Jalopy has created…

The Brooklyn Folk Festival presents the best in American and world folk music, a celebration of down-home music, cultural diversity and memory. The Festival is presented by the Jalopy Theatre & School of Music, a grassroots community space that is a music venue, music school, instrument store and record label. Since 2009, the Jalopy has created…