Tom Marion

The annual Brooklyn Folk Festival is coming up, happening on April 8-10 at Saint Ann’s Church in Brooklyn. As always, it features a mix of performances and fun workshops, events and activities. Performers include Michael Hurley, Spirit Family Reunion, Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton & more.

Celebrating folk music from near and far, the Brooklyn Folk Festival showcases 30 bands, workshops, film screenings and contests. Daptone gospel group Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens, country blues and songster multi-instrumentalist Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton, folk legend and songwriter Michael Hurley, old-time fiddle and banjo player Bruce Molsky, fiddle player Frank Fairfield, and intergenerational anti-folk collaborators Peter Stampfel & Jeffrey Lewis are among the performers at this year’s Festival, held from April 17-19th…