This Sunday, September 13 from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m., the Brooklyn Americana Music Festival, in conjunction with Brooklyn Bridge Park, will present on line the “Women’s Stage” portion of its 2020 “Long Distance” festival, featuring a diverse group of women musicians with styles “spanning traditional and modern Country, Folk, Blues, Old Time, Bluegrass, and Jazz.” The opening act will be Nora Brown, a young Brooklynite who is a stellar banjo artist, having been taught by the late Shlomo Pestcoe. The photo, which I took at the 2018 Brooklyn Folk Festival, shows her at age twelve. The Festival is free; there’s more information here.
Another of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s traditional outdoor events, Books Beneath the Bridge, goes virtual this year and will begin this Monday, September 14 at 7:00 p.m. with an event presented by Cobble Hill’s Books are Magic that will feature a group of poets and prose writers reading poetry that will “navigate themes of protest poetry, migrant voices, gender-queer perspectives, the richness and resilience of black girl culture, modern-day parenting, and more.” There will be a question and answer session with the readers. If you wish to participate, please register here.
