The Brooklyn Folk Festival presents the best in American and world folk music. Located in downtown Brooklyn, NY the festival is a celebration of down home music, cultural diversity and memory. Each year we draw talent from the New York, the national and the international world of folk, traditional and vernacular music.

The annual festival provides an opportunity for community to come together, enjoy music and take part in workshops, film screenings, contests and jam sessions. The festival is produced each year with the goal of achieving an event that is more than the sum of its parts.

The Brooklyn Folk 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. By growing the Brooklyn Folk Festival since 2009, the Jalopy has created a substantial and unique community event that brings together thousands of music lovers and hundreds of musicians to celebrate the valuable musical traditions of the world's peoples.

The 3-day festival includes 30+ bands, vocal and instrumental workshops, a family-friendly square dance, jam sessions, film screenings, the famous Banjo Toss contest and more!

Schedule of Events

Main Stage

7:00pm: Royce Martin - ragtime pianist and composer

7:50pm: Shiva Lakhan - West Indian Classical and Chutney Singer from Trinidad

8:40pm: Guachinangos - Mexican son jarocho with Colombian cumbia and other Latin American rhythms

9:30pm: JUST ANNOUNCED - The Cactus Blossoms - an American alternative country and indie folk band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota

10:20pm: Wazumbians - Afrofusion music group from Ghana

Parish Hall

Terri Thal Book Signing

7:00pm: Christian & Cole - A dynamic duo specializing in captivating duets and brotherly harmonies

7:50pm: Wilson & Walsh - sad song specialists, old country and new

8:40pm: Beareather Reddy - Blues vocalist/songwriter/actress/producer

9:30pm: La Banda Chuska - merges the sounds of vintage Peruvian cumbia and psychedelic chicha with 1960s Latin American and Middle Eastern surf rock

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