The Brooklyn Folk Festival returns to St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, Clinton and Montague streets, this coming Friday evening, November 8, with performances continuing through Saturday and Sunday. There’s a complete schedule here. Among the performers will be long time Folk Festival favorites Nora Brown (photo above by C. Scales for BHB), The Down Hill Strugglers, Feral Foster, and Jerron Paxton. Among others on the program are performers of old time and contemporary folk music, blues, bluegrass, jug band, afrofusion, conjunto, Cajun and creole, ragtime, New Orleans soul, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues. An especially intriguing (for your correspondent) entry is for 9:30 PM Friday in the Parish Hall, where La Banda Chuska “merges the sounds of vintage Peruvian cumbia and psychedelic chicha with 1960s Latin American and Middle Eastern surf rock.” The music programming concludes on Sunday evening, starting at 9:10, with “The Music of Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru,” who was “an Ethiopian composer, pianist and nun who passed away in 2023 at the age of 100, her music will be played by pianist and composer Thomas Feng.”
In addition to the music, there will be presentations with discussion in the Workshop Room. Among these will be: from noon until 2:00 Saturday Nora Guthrie, daughter of Woody Guthrie, will present “My Name Is New York: Ramblin’ Around Woody Guthrie’s Town”; from 4:45 to 5;45 PM Saturday there will be a “Democracy Story Circle” where you can “Join Arts & Democracy and Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY to share stories about the election and beyond”; and at 7:00 Saturday evening you can attend a “Can-Jo Workshop” with “Perfessor” Zeke Leonard, who will teach you how to “[b]uild your own one string banjo out of a can.”
Tickets for the Festival may be purchased here.
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