The Brooklyn Folk Festival returns to St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, Clinton and Montague streets, this coming Friday evening, November 10, with performances continuing through Saturday and Sunday. There’s a complete schedule here. Among the performers will be long time Folk Festival favorites like Nora Brown (photo above by C. Scales for BHB), […]
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Halloween Theme for Last Open Streets Montague of 2023 This Saturday
For the first time in many weeks, no rain is being forecast for this Saturday, October 28. Open Streets Montague, presented by the Montague BID, promises to be a “SPOOK-tacular” pre-Halloween event, with local merchants inviting trick-or-treaters; free pumpkins while they last from a Pumpkin Patch; Halloween themed games, fitness, and dance events; music by […]
Brooklyn Folk Festival Coming Thursday through Sunday
The Brooklyn Folk Festival, presented by the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, will return this week at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, enter at 157 Montague Street. The Festival will open on Thursday evening, October 20, with the world premiere of a film, “Different Johns”, about the late John Cohen, a musician […]
Brooklyn Folk Festival Off to Roaring Start
If the quality of last night’s performances at the Brooklyn Folk Festival holds up through the rest of the weekend, this will be the best Festival yet, and that’s clearing a high bar. The opening act was Tenores de Aterúe, an a capella quartet who do traditional music from Sardinia, an island to the west […]
Big Musical Weekend: Bargemusic Returns; also Bach in the Heights and Brooklyn Folk Festival.
Bargemusic returns from its winter break this coming weekend, with three concerts. On Friday evening, April 5 at 7:00 there will be works by contemporary composers Haas, Neuwirth, Kurtág, and Donatoni performed by violinist Miranda Cuckson (photo, by John Rogers) and pianist Conor Hanick. On Saturday evening, April 6 at 6:00 pianist Alexandra Joan will […]
Brooklyn Folk Festival Returns to St. Ann’s Church April 6th through 8th
The tenth annual Brooklyn Folk Festival will be at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Clinton and Montague streets, the weekend of Friday evening, April 5 through Sunday, April 8. A schedule of events is here. This year’s lineup features some new performers, among them singer-songwriter Pokey LaFarge,
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 […]
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 […]
Brooklyn Folk Festival Delights
Last weekend’s Brooklyn Folk Festival, presented by Down Home Radio Show and Jalopy Theater, at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church presented a diverse and, on the whole, excellent group of musicians. Wyndham Baird (photo), just back from a tour of England and Scotland, sang a variety of folk and blues songs, accompanying himself […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The Brooklyn Heights Association will have another of its “BHA Social!” events at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church this Friday evening, April 17 starting at 7:30 p.m. This is in conjunction with the start of the Brooklyn Folk Festival. The BHA event is free, with beer and wine available for purchase. Tickets for […]
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