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The Railsplitters play Rockwood Music Hall in NYC, Fri Aug 7
Rockwood Music Hall (Stage One), New York, NY at 9:00 pm
On Friday August 7, innovative Colorado band The Railsplitters play a harmony-rich, bluegrass-inflected set at New York City's Rockwood Music Hall. The roots-music pioneers were recently praised by Popmatters for "evoking both classic pop harmonizing and the communitarian sense that’s found in the best bluegrass and folk music."
The Down Hill Strugglers & the Four o'clock Flowers in Concert Tuesday, August 4 at 6:30 pm
Join the Down Hill Strugglers and the Four o’clock Flowers for a rollicking evening of old-time blues and gospel music by two outstanding contemporary folk groups based in New York City.
The first to respond to this email with the subject line “Folkin’ City” will win two free tickets.
Readers of BluegrassNYC can use the discount code BLUEGRASS for reduced price tickets ($6 off for the general public and $4 off for students and seniors).
Both these bands play in an exuberant style influenced by American southern and western rural traditions. The Strugglers will be joined by legendary musician John Cohen, originally of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of “citybillies” who, in the 1950s and 1960s, introduced many New Yorkers to Southern mountain and bluegrass music. Between songs, Cohen and Eli Smith of the Strugglers will talk about their efforts to enrich the musical tapestry of New York with rural string-band, blues, and other forms of folk music. This concert accompanies the City Museum's exhibition Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival, on view through January 10th.
Cricket Tell The Weather
Founded in 2012, Cricket's original songwriting has found a home in worlds of bluegrass, folk, and old-time. Having toured throughout the Northeast, Cricket has established a base in the bluegrass and folk festival and concert series circuits. They are winners of the 2013 FreshGrass Award as an emerging artist, and 2011 Podunk Bluegrass Songwriting Competition. They released their eponymous debut album in 2014, and their forthcoming album is set to release in fall of 2015.
Friday, August 14, 2015 8:30pm
Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3
196 Allen Street New York, NY 10002
212-477-4155
TIX LINK
Punch Brothers & Sarah Jarosz at Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn July 9th
THURSDAY, JULY 9, 7:30 P.M at the Prospect Park Bandshell
PUNCH BROTHERS | SARAH JAROSZ FREE
No band embodies the raging bluegrass revival better than Punch Brothers, a virtuosic five-piece fronted by mandolin player Chris Thile that shifts its emphasis effortlessly “from instrumental wizardry to playful storytelling” (The New York Times). Mandolin prodigy Sarah Jarosz, a recent addition to Brooklyn and a veteran at 23, is cut from the same cloth.
More information
Tonight! Brooklyn Country Music Festival Peekaboo Opry!
BluegrassNYC has two pairs of tickets, one each for the first two readers who write back with the subject “Pop-a-Top Again”.
BROOKLYN COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL PEEKABOO OPRY WITH VAN HAYRIDE, JULIA HALTIGAN, ARON BLUE AND THE BOOTLEGGERS AND DJ HONKY TONK RADIO GIRL!
SAT, JUNE 13, 2015
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
The Bell House
Brooklyn, New York
$10.00
More at the Bell House webpage
A High, Lonesome Bluegrass Mass at Carnegie Hall
The first person to reply to this email with the phrase “More Banjer!” will win two free tickets to this show.
Southern hymns and down-home harmonies blend with the traditional instrumental sounds of a bluegrass band to create Come Away to the Skies: A High, Lonesome Mass. This exciting new choral work makes its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall, courtesy of Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International. Composed by Wes Ramsey and Tim Sharp, who'll be on hand to conduct, the piece is set to be accompanied live by the Chuck Nation Band.
Friday, May 22, 2015 at 7:00 PM
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall
Tickets from $20
Call CarnegieCharge at 212-721-6500 or Visit CarnegieHall.org
The Brooklyn Folk Festival is back for its 7th annual installment.
The 3-day festival includes 30 bands, vocal and instrumental workshops, a family-friendly square dance and swing dance, jam sessions, film screenings, the famous Banjo Toss contest.
The Brooklyn Folk Festival will feature old-time string-band music, folk, blues, song writers, jug band, bluegrass, traditional Irish and Balkan music, and more.
This year the festival will be held at the beautiful historic St. Ann’s Church located at 157 Montague St. between Clinton and Henry in Brooklyn Heights. The venue is wheelchair accessible. A full 3-day pass is $80; individual show tickets start at $20. More here.
Here’s the lineup:
Friday April 17th:
8:00PM Jackson Lynch – Blues guitar, old time fiddle and banjo breakdowns 8:45PM Horse Eyed Men – Original folk/country outer-space music 9:30PM Michael Hurley – Legendary folk musician, needs no introduction! 10:15PM Jerron “Blindboy” Paxton - Country blues, fiddle and banjo 11:00PM Terry Waldo’s Rum House Band - Legendary early Jazz and Ragtime pianist with his band 11:45PM Feral Foster and His Band – Excellent songwriting based solidly in Blues, Folk, Gospel and Balkan music
Saturday April 18th: Afternoon Concerts
1:30PM Wyndham Baird – Folksongs, blues, and more! 2:15PM King Isto’s Tropical String Band – Hawaiian/tropical stringband music 3:00PM Ryan Spearman – Banjo and fiddle music, old and new 3:45PM Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues – Raucous jug band music! Traditional and original 4:30PM Frank Fairfield and Zac Sokolow – American stringband music from the great state of California! 5:15PM Suzy & Eric Thompson – Folk, Blues and Bluegrass music, from the great state of California! 6:00PM Tom Marion with Frank Fairfield – Italian and American string music featuring polkas, waltzes, mazurkas! 6:45PM Ozark Highballers – Amazing old time string band from the great state of Arkansas!
Evening Concerts
8:00PM M. Chad Levitt – St. Ann’s amazing pipe organist will play the Church’s huge pipe organ! 8:30PM Pat Conte – Direct from the Secret Museum 9:15PM The Cactus Blossoms – Original and Traditional country songs, sung in harmony 10:00PM Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens 11:00PM Souren Baronian and band – Middle and Near Eastern Music
Sunday April 19th: Afternoon Concerts
2:00PM Uncle Shlomo’s Brooklyn Kids – a traditional music ensemble comprised of some of Shlomo Pestcoe’s young private music students (ages 9 – 16) and his grownup musician friends who are all highly acclaimed local performers. 2:45PM Hoodoo Honeydrippers – Country Blues duet 3:30PM Art Rosenbaum - Grammy Award winning musician and folklorist 4:15PM “Treasure from the Archive Roadshow” - Live performance of music from the collections of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. 5:00PM Famoro Dioubate – Djeli playing Mande Balafon music from Guinea 5:45PM Bruce Molsky – Old time fiddle, banjo and guitar 6:30PM Four o’clock Flowers - Blues and Folk duet
Evening Concerts
7:30PM Down Hill Strugglers with John Cohen - old time string band 8:15PM Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel (of the Holy Modal Rounders) 9:00PM The (Whiskey) Spitters - Old, Blues and Jug Band Music 9:45PM Litvakus – Klezmer/Jewish music of Belarus, beautiful newly researched and rediscovered music
Saturday night!
Le Vent du Nord CD Launch Party! Saturday April 11th
Brooklyn NY at Roulette509 Atlantic (at the corner of 3rd and Atlantic) $25 Show starts at 8pm
NOTE: The Brooklyn show has a special meet-and-greet with the band after the show. RSVP by April 6 for a free drink: [email protected]
Hear more of this pretty cool sound at https://leventdunord.bandcamp.com/
Miles of Music Winter Brooklyn House Camp kicks off with a February 27th Show at Jalopy. The House Camp is a 2-day workshop exploring traditional Irish and Old Time music, modern songwriting and how they work together. Learn fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, singing (lead and harmony) and songwriting. Additional instrument instruction may be added based on camper interest.
More information is here!
Grant Gordy writes in to let us know that Saturday November 22 at 7 PM, Mr Sun, his new band featuring Grammy- nominated fiddle pioneer Darol Anger, bluegrass mandolin virtuoso Joe K. Walsh, acoustic guitar luminary Grant Gordy and rising star of the bass Ethan Jodziewicz will be appearing live at Drom, 85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th).
Mr Sun is a conversation across generations, made up of four of the most compelling voices in the contemporary acoustic music scene. Its members’ pedigree gives this ensemble a rare quality of truly inhabiting and celebrating in a wide spectrum of American musical repertoire from bluegrass to jazz to classical. Add to that a growing body of original compositions, their inexhaustible musical curiosity and their dynamic onstage chemistry, and naturally Mr Sun is dazzling audiences at festivals and concert halls internationally.
Tickets at www.dromnyc.com or at 212-777-1157.
On Saturday, October 11th at 8 pm, Town Hall will present bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolinist Chris Thile - each accomplished composers, longtime collaborators and MacArthur Fellows - playing songs from their upcoming duet album Bass & Mandolin. Audiences can expect a mix of original compositions and classical covers in this stripped down, high-spirited shows from the pair.
Tickets are $40-$60
Sarah Baird Knight, who heads The Scarlet K, writes to invite Bluegrass NYC readers to their gig next Wednesday, August 13 (7PM doors / 8PM show) at SubCulture on Bleecker Street.
The Scarlet K is a 12-piece band, based in Brooklyn, with a sound that draws from bluegrass and string bands to Southern gospel shape-note singing, adding wind instruments and brass for a shot of polka & mariachi. Hear recordings at http://www.thescarletk.com.
Americana Double Header this Thursday at Jalopy!
Dubl Handi kicks things off at 8 pm opening for The Lonesome Trio. Dubl Handi is guy/girl team Hilary Hawke and Brian Geltner named after the Washboard company from the 1800's. Dubl Handi is pronounced like, Double Handy, just spelled different. In the tradition of folk music around the world rhythmic groove is a pervasive thread. Dubl Handi uses percussion, drums, and banjo to play songs from appalachian region of the Northeast States.
The Lonesome Trio play at 9pm. Twenty years ago, in the rolling plains of northern Ohio, a strange and fortuitous gathering occurred. Ed Helms, Ian Riggs, and Jacob Tilove, then students at Oberlin College, were drawn together by a mutual love of fine whiskey and bluegrass. In short order, music was happening. With Riggs on bass, Helms on guitar, Tilove on mandolin and all three melodically shouting, a distinctive musical voice took shape.
$12 gets you in for both shows!
Mipso, North Carolina's renegades of traditional music, are performing in NYC on July 25. Check out their latest, Dark Holler Pop. That's some nice male harmony.
Mipso
Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2
Fri, July 25, at 7 pm Free
The 2nd Annual Great American Roots Stomp
July 11 & 12, 7:30pm
Union Hall
Roll up your sleeves for two nights of hootin', hollerin', jazzin', swingin', foot-stompin', barn-burnin' revelry with eight NYC bands audaciously bringing Americana roots back into the spotlight.
Friday night features raucous country boys Jumbo Brown, down-home harmonies from Bobtown, smokin' gypsy jazz from Seth Kessel & The Two Cent Band and fancy fiddlin' and pickin' from the Melody Allegra Band.
Saturday night features the irresistibly lively string band Union Street Preservation Society, lilting melodies from Jan Bell & The Maybelles, genre-jumping sing-a-long songs from the Alex Mallett Band and salty-sweet singin' from Sara Bouchard & the Salt Parade.
Union Hall
702 Union Street (Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Friday tickets - $10
Saturday tickets - $10
(Tickets for each night sold separately.)
RSVP and more info on Facebook.
Madison Square Park brings bluegrass to the Oval Lawn Series on July 2nd at 6 pm! Two great bands for the price of free:
The SteelDrivers
The SteelDrivers are a bluegrass group that is anything but conventional. They smartly mix contemporary influences with traditional bluegrass sounds to create something new and wholly unique. Described as “new music with an old feeling”, the band has been invited to perform on numerous radio and TV shows like NPR’s Mountain Stage and the Conan O’Brien Show. Richard Bailey (Banjo), Mike Fleming (Bass/Vocals), Gary Nichols (Guitar/Vocals), Tammy Rogers (Fiddle/Vocals), and Brent Truitt (Mandolin) have been nominated for a plethora of awards since the release of their first two CDs, The SteelDrivers (2008) and Reckless (2010), including three Grammys, four IBMA awards and the Americana Music Association’s New Artist of the Year award. Rounder Records recently released their third album, Hammer Down, in 2013.
Cricket Tell the Weather
Cricket Tell the Weather, winners of the 2013 MASS MoCA FreshGrass Award for emerging bluegrass talent, is made up of Andrea Asprelli (fiddle), Jason Borisoff (guitar), Doug Goldstein (banjo), Jeff Picker (bass), and sometimes joined by Dan Tressler (mandolin) and Hans Bilger (bass). They weave rock, chamber ensemble elements, and pop into their progressive bluegrass songs, forming a new and exciting sound that music lovers from all walks of life will enjoy. Songwriters Andrea Asprelli and Jason Borisoff received a blue ribbon at the 2011 Podunk Bluegrass Festival Songwriting Competition for their co-written song “Remington”. The band is also committed to molding future bluegrass musicians by holding “American Roots Revival” workshops for students of all ages. -
See more here
Feral Fosters Record Release Party
Saturday, May 24 Show starts at 9:00
$10 BUY TICKETS
Feral is joined by some of the hottest talent around to bring the spectacle to the stage. He's releasing his record and is joined by Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens!
Foster is a NYC based folk singer who has been running his own show, Roots n Ruckus, since he was in high school. His powerful voice and amazing stage presence are matched by original, heartfelt songwriting.