The Dust Busters will be making their 3rd appearance at The Brooklyn Folk Festival on Saturday June 11th and 9:45pm. Its gonna be great!
Here's some more info on the festival:
Brooklyn Folk Festival:
Friday, June 10th- Sunday, June 12th, 2011 at the Jalopy
Theater and Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition- Brooklyn, New York.
Down Home
Radio host Eli Smith is proud to announce the 3rd annual Brooklyn Folk
Festival, to be held at the Jalopy Theater and Brooklyn Waterfront Artists
Coalition in Brooklyn, NY – Friday, June 10th- Sunday, June 12th, 2011. The festival will feature the best
young talent from Brooklyn’s exploding folk music scene as well as luminaries
from the generation that made the 1960’s New York City folk music revival. The music featured will include
traditional styles such as old-time string band music, blues, jug band music,
traditional music of Mexico, the Balkans and West Africa, North Indian classical music, local songwriters and
more! There will be concerts
throughout the day as well as workshops on various musical styles, film
screenings and a Sunday afternoon square dance! This year will also inaugurate the Brooklyn Folk Festival “Banjo
Toss.” The person who throws a
banjo the farthest will win a free banjo!
The festival
will feature luminaries such as Grammy Award winner Peter Stampfel of the Holy
Modal Rounders and Pat Conte of the Canebrake Rattlers and Secret Museum of
Mankind, two of the main creators of the 1960’s folk music scene in Greenwhich
Village, but will also feature young Brooklyn based talents such as acclaimed blues musician Blind Boy Paxton, ballad singer Elizabeth
Butters, old time string band The Dust Busters, Country singer Alex Battles, songster Feral Foster, and many
more. Radio Jarocho, a Mexican
folk music collective will perform a variety of styles of music and dance from
across Mexico. Clifton Hicks of
Boone, North Carolina will be making a second appearance at the festival
following his debut last year, playing his style of traditional banjo music of
the Southern Appalachian mountains. The Brooklyn Folk Festival seeks to exhibit
the cultural contributions from a diversity of Brooklyn communities, and in
particular seeks to highlight the young talent emerging from those communities.
Come down to The Brooklyn Folk Festival in Redhook Brooklyn
over the weekend Friday, June 10th- Sunday, June 12th to hear Brooklyn’s best
traditional Folk musicians and song writers. You will hear banjos, fiddles, mandolins, guitars, people
blowing on jugs and harmonicas, a world champion whistler as well as great
original songs. If you want to
learn how to play, come down to the afternoon instrumental workshops. The festival costs $20 per day or $55
for 3 days, including the afternoon workshops and film screenings! The Brooklyn Folk Festival is
co-sponsored by Down Home Radio @ www.DownHomeRadioShow.com
& The Jalopy Theater.
The Jalopy Theater is located at
315 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, New York 11231
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition is located at:
499 Van Brunt Street
NY 11231-1048
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