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Brooklyn Folk Fest 2018 lineup & tickets

The 2018 Brooklyn Folk Festival happens April 6-8 at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church and features R. Crumb with The East River String Band, Spirit Family Reunion, John Cohen with the Down Hill Strugglers, Elizabeth Mitchell & Suni Paz, Innov Gnawa, and lots more.

Brooklyn Folk Festival 2015 lineup & schedule

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…

MoMA Nights 2013 schedule (Mikal Cronin, Ducktails & more)

Mikal Cronin in Chicago in February (more by Kristie Shanley) This summer, MoMA will be hosting the return of their MoMA Nights series every Thursday in July and August…

Brooklyn Folk Fest is this weekend

The 2013 edition of the Brooklyn Folk Festival starts a little earlier and in a new location this year, happening from April 19 – 21 at The Bell House and features, “the best in old-time string-band music, folk, blues, song writers, bluegrass, traditional Mexican, Irish and Balkan music, songwriters and much more…