This year’s Willowtown Fair will be this coming Saturday, May 20, from noon until 5:00 PM, on Willow Place (between Joralemon and State streets). It will feature food from Iris Cafe, live music by the Willowtown Bluegrass Band, face painters and a bouncy castle for the kids, a raffle, baked goods, plants, and boutique items […]
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Repast Baroque Ensemble Presents Latin American Baroque at First Unitarian Friday Evening
This Friday evening, May 19 at 8:00, at the McKinney Chapel at First Unitarian Congregational Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton Street; concert venue fully accessible), the Repast Baroque Ensemble (photo) will present “Latin American Baroque.” The concert will include music from Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Spain. The musicians of Repast will […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
On Friday evening, May 12, starting at 8:00, Bargemusic presents “A Beethoven Odyssey,” featuring pianist Yael Weiss (photo) playing works by Beethoven, Paul Schoenfield, and Paul Chihara. On Saturday evening, May 13, at 8:00, and again on Sunday afternoon, May 14, at 4:00, the Semplice Players, along with violinist Mark Peskanov and pianist Nina Kogan, […]
Some Highlights of the Brooklyn Folk Festival: Part III, Sunday, April 30, Including the Banjo Toss!
Early Sunday afternoon, April 30, your correspondent took the F train to the Smith-9th Street station, the highest elevated station on the New York City rapid transit system – it crosses the Gowanus Canal and had to provide clearance for ships to go under it – to participate in the fabled Banjo Toss Contest. After […]
Some Highlights of the Brooklyn Folk Festival: Part II, Saturday, April 29
The eighth annual Brooklyn Folk Festival continued on Saturday afternoon and evening, April 29, at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church. I first knew of Peter Stampfel as part of the Holy Modal Rounders (you can hear them here). On Saturday afternoon, April 29, Peter (second from right in the photo) took the stage […]
Some Highlights of Last Weekend’s Brooklyn Folk Festival: Part I, Friday
The eighth annual Brooklyn Folk Festival began Friday evening, April 28 at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church with the poet Anne Waldman (photo) reading her poems, accompanied by her nephew, Devin Brajha Waldman on saxophone. She closed her set by singing a poem by William Blake that had been set to music by […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
On Friday evening, May 5 at 8:00 Bargemusic presents pianist Gleb Ivanov (photo) playing works by Haydn, Schubert, and Schubert-Liszt. For you lovers of things Scandinavian, on Saturday evening, May 6 at 8:00, and again on Sunday afternoon, May 7 at 4:00, violinist Mark Peskanov and pianist Alexander Peskanov will perform works by Grieg. There […]
Grace Chorale Of Brooklyn Presents “Songs of Spring” at First Unitarian Friday Evening
Grace Chorale of Brooklyn, an 85 member choral group based here in Brooklyn Heights, is celebrating forty years of presenting fine choral music. They take their name from Grace Church, where they began rehearsing their music many years ago, but do not have any affiliation with the church or any other institution. This Friday evening, […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
This Friday evening, April 28 at 8:00, pianist Olga Vinokur (photo) will perform works by Barber, Gershwin, Rzewski, Wild/Gershwin, Adams, and Bolcom. On Saturday evening, April 29 at 8:00, Ms. Vinokur returns to play works by Debussy, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninoff/Kreisler, and Schubert/Liszt. On Sunday afternoon, April 30 at 4:00, the Apollo Trio will perform works […]
Brooklyn Folk Festival at St. Ann’s Church April 28-30
The ninth annual Brooklyn Folk Festival will be at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church (Clinton and Montague streets) from Friday evening, April 28 through Sunday evening, April 30. Your correspondent has attended the last two festivals–see here and here and enjoyed them enormously. This year’s promises to be even better, given the superb […]
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