Jalopy Theatre

Private Banjo Lessons

Once you make your purchase we will contact you and set you up a time with an instructor at your convenience. Lesson Cancellation Policy: Once a lesson is scheduled, you can cancel it or reschedule it with no charge and no penalty by contacting your teacher at least 24 hours before your lesson. With fewer than 24 hours notice, there are no cancellations and you will be charged for the lesson. All lessons must be scheduled within a year of purchase.

Aug 12, 2022

Jalopy Theatre

Private Fiddle Lessons

Once you make your purchase we will contact you and set you up a time with an instructor at your convenience. Lesson Cancellation Policy: Once a lesson is scheduled, you can cancel it or reschedule it with no charge and no penalty by contacting your teacher at least 24 hours before your lesson. With fewer than 24 hours notice, there are no cancellations and you will be charged for the lesson. All lessons must be scheduled within a year of purchase.

Jul 07, 2024

Jalopy Theatre

Private Mandolin Lessons

Once you make your purchase we will contact you and set you up a time with an instructor at your convenience. Lesson Cancellation Policy: Once a lesson is scheduled, you can cancel it or reschedule it with no charge and no penalty by contacting your teacher at least 24 hours before your lesson. With fewer than 24 hours notice, there are no cancellations and you will be charged for the lesson. All lessons must be scheduled within a year of purchase.

Jul 07, 2024

Jalopy Theatre

Private Guitar Lessons

Once you make your purchase we will contact you and set you up a time with an instructor at your convenience. Lesson Cancellation Policy: Once a lesson is scheduled, you can cancel it or reschedule it with no charge and no penalty by contacting your teacher at least 24 hours before your lesson. With fewer than 24 hours notice, there are no cancellations and you will be charged for the lesson. All lessons must be scheduled within a year of purchase.

Jan 06, 2025

Jalopy Theatre

Private Harmonica Lessons

Once you make your purchase we will contact you and set you up a time with an instructor at your convenience. Lesson Cancellation Policy: Once a lesson is scheduled, you can cancel it or reschedule it with no charge and no penalty by contacting your teacher at least 24 hours before your lesson. With fewer than 24 hours notice, there are no cancellations and you will be charged for the lesson. All lessons must be scheduled within a year of purchase.

May 29, 2025

Jalopy Theatre

Private Ukulele Lessons

Once you make your purchase we will contact you and set you up a time with an instructor at your convenience. Lesson Cancellation Policy: Once a lesson is scheduled, you can cancel it or reschedule it with no charge and no penalty by contacting your teacher at least 24 hours before your lesson. With fewer than 24 hours notice, there are no cancellations and you will be charged for the lesson. All lessons must be scheduled within a year of purchase.

Jul 24, 2025

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Jalopy Jr. FALL UKULELE CLUB! (Sept. 9th - Dec. 16th)

Welcome to Jalopy Jr. ! Jalopy Jr. UKULELE CLUB! TUESDAYS - 3:30 to 4:30 (September 9th - December 16th) Ages 5-9 Teacher: Kyle Tigges NO CLASSES 9./23, 11/4, or 11/11 We will round out this 11 week session with Sweet Song Share Show on Tuesday December 16th at 5:30! 25% sibling discounts available! We are focused on building community and teaching folk and traditional music. We have a place for every level of learner and every financial situation. Along with the Fabulous Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, we offer private and group classes to people of all ages from newborn to adult. The experienced teachers at Jalopy are here to encourage musical exploration through singing and playing instruments like fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, percussion, and more! Rental instruments and financial aid are available! Please reach out to our Jalopy Jr. directors with any questions: kyle@jalopytheatre.org and leah@jalopytheatre.org For information about financial aid, please contact lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Sep 09, 2025

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Jalopy Jr. FALL BEGINNER String Band (Sept. 9th - Dec. 16th)

JR FOLK BEGINNER STRING BAND (Tuesdays) Tuesdays 4:30 to 6:00 September 9th - December 16th (NO CLASS: 9/23,11/4, or 11/11) Ages 7-11 (flexible) Group Size: 6 - 10 students Teachers: Kyle Tigges and Leah Tash We will round out this 11 week session with a Sweet Song Share Show on December 16th at 5:30! 25% sibling discounts available! Instrument rentals a available! Welcome to Jalopy Jr. ! We are focused on building community and teaching folk and traditional music. We have a place for every level of learner and every financial situation. Along with the Fabulous Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, we offer private and group classes to people of all ages from newborn to adult. The experienced teachers at Jalopy are here to encourage musical exploration through singing and playing instruments like fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, percussion, and more! Rental instruments and financial aid are available! Please reach out to our Jalopy Jr. directors with any questions: kyle@jalopytheatre.org / leah@jalopytheatre.org For information about financial aid, please contact lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Sep 09, 2025

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Jalopy Jr. FALL INTERMEDIATE String Band (Sept. 11 - Dec. 18th)

JR FOLK INTERMEDIATE STRING BAND Thursdays 4:30 to 6:30 September 11th - December 18th (NO CLASS 10/2 or 11/27) Ages 8 - 14 (flexible) Group Size: 6 - 10 students Teachers: Caroline Kuhn and Kyle Tigges We will round out this 13 week session with a Sweet Song Share Show on December 18th at 6PM! 25% sibling discounts available! Rental Instrument available! Welcome to Jalopy Jr. ! We are focused on building community and teaching folk and traditional music. We have a place for every level of learner and every financial situation. Along with the Fabulous Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, we offer private and group classes to people of all ages from newborn to adult. The experienced teachers at Jalopy are here to encourage musical exploration through singing and playing instruments like fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, percussion, and more! Rental instruments and financial aid are available! Please reach out to our Jalopy Jr. director with any questions: kyle@jalopytheatre.org For information about financial aid, please contact lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Sep 11, 2025

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Beginning Guitar with Kyle Morgan - An Eight-Week Group Class

An Eight-Week Group Class with Kyle Morgan Mondays at 7 pm: 9/15, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17 Guitar I Class is for absolute beginners. You don't have to have any musical background to begin playing. The class will introduce all the basics of playing guitar - forming chord shapes, tuning, rhythm, and playing some basic songs. We'll give you all you need to get started. *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Sep 15, 2025

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Intermediate Guitar with Kyle Morgan - An Eight-Week Group Class

An Eight-Week Group Class with Kyle Morgan Mondays at 8 pm: 9/15, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17 For people who know a handful of chords, but want to become more familiar with them by learning new songs and strumming patterns. Students are welcome to re-take Guitar II as many times as they want - When there are return students, each session will consist of at least 50% new material. Songs from different genres will be presented. The main chords covered will be E, A, D, G, C, Am, Em, Dm, E7, A7, D7, G7, B7 and F. If you know some of these chords already and a few songs, this class for you!. For financial assistance please email lynette@jalopytheatre.org *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Sep 16, 2025

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Fingerpicking Guitar with Kyle Morgan - An Eight-Week Class

An Eight-Week Class with Kyle Morgan Tuesdays at 7 pm: 9/16, 9/30, 10/7, 10/14, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18 Fingerpicking Guitar is for intermediate guitarists who have a basic grasp of the instrument (you know your basic major and minor chords and can play along to “simple” folk/country songs). You don’t have to have a lot of experience fingerpicking. We’ll start off simply with foundational techniques and basic patterns. By the end of 8 weeks, you’ll be able to fingerpick chords on multiple songs and maybe even begin playing simple melodies at the same time! *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Sep 16, 2025

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Singing Bluegrass Harmony with Kyle Morgan - An Eight-Week Class

An Eight-Week Class with Kyle Morgan Tuesdays at 8 pm: 9/16, 9/30, 10/7, 10/14, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18 Deepen your understanding of vocal harmony by singing and analyzing the vocal arrangements of classic country groups like The Carter Family, The Louvin Brothers, Buck Owens, The Everly Brothers and more! We’ll explore basic music theory about how notes join together to form intervals and chords, and then experience those concepts in real time by singing well-loved songs that feature two and three-part harmonies. *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Sep 17, 2025

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Beginning Mandolin with Steve Burke - An Eight-Week Group Class

An Eight-Week Group Class with Steve Burke Wednesdays at 7:00pm: 9/17, 9/24, 10/8, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19 Beginning Mandolin is for absolute beginners. You don't have to have any musical background to begin playing. The class will introduce all the basics of playing mandolin - forming chord shapes, playing melodies, tuning and rhythm. By the end of eight weeks you'll have learned multiple songs in different styles. We'll give you all you need to get started. To learn more about Steve, please visit Steveburke.me or Instagram.com/steveburk3. *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Sep 17, 2025

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Intermediate Mandolin with Steve Burke - An Eight-Week Group Class

An Eight-Week Group Class with Steve Burke Wednesdays at 8:15 pm: 9/17, 9/24, 10/8, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19 Intermediate Mandolin is for someone with a basic grasp of the instrument but wants to dive deeper. We’ll cover more chord shapes, basic theory and how it applies to mandolin and look deeper into musical styles. Students should expect to be introduced to scales, arpeggios and how they fit into chords. By the end of eight weeks you should be comfortable playing progressions in a variety of keys and have expanded your ear to begin improvising. To learn more about Steve, please visit Steveburke.me or Instagram.com/steveburk3. *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Sep 18, 2025

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Beginning Fiddle with Glendon Jones - An Eight-Week Group Class

An Eight-Week Group Class with Glendon Jones Thursdays at 7:00pm: 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6 Fiddle I starts from the very beginning and is intended for those who have never played the fiddle or violin before. We will begin with learning how to tune and hold the instrument. With a focus on playing songs right from week 1, the class will progress from familiar simple melodies (ie. Mary Had a Little Lamb) to classic American fiddle tunes. Along the way you'll also learn several major scales, basic bowing and fingering techniques and how to read tablature, a simplified form of notation. *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Sep 18, 2025

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Beginning Banjo with Kyle Tigges - An Eight-Week Group Class

An Eight-Week Group Class with Kyle Tigges Thursdays at 7:00pm: 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6 For banjo beginners, this course will introduce students to the fundamentals of the instrument, musical tablature as well as the basics of music theory. The first half will be spent developing chords, plucking solo melodies and building muscle memory while the latter half will introduce the right hand Clawhammer technique using drills and basic songs. No prior musical experience required. For financial aid email lynette@jalopytheatre.org.

Sep 18, 2025

Jalopy Theatre

Intermediate Fiddle with Glendon Jones - An Eight-Week Group Class

An Eight-Week Group Class with Glendon Jones Thursdays at 8:00pm: 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6 Intermediate Fiddle is intended for anyone who has taken Fiddle 1 or had some introductory fiddle instruction. It is also an excellent entry point for anyone who has played violin in the past (even many years before). Topics will include 2-octave scales, basic fiddle rhythm, finding your own best bow grip, dynamics, drone strings and more. These concepts will be introduced through a series of traditional American fiddle tunes. Students can expect to learn 5-7 tunes during the eight weeks. Every tune will be taught by ear with recorded examples and tablature provided. *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org This ticket is a revocable license and may be taken up and admission refused upon refunding the purchase price appearing hereon and is grounds for seizure and cancellation without compensation. Holder of this ticket (“Holder”) voluntarily assumes all risks and danger incidental to the event for which this ticket is issued whether occurring prior to, during, or after same, including, but not limited to, contracting, and/or spreading the COVID-19 virus, and agrees that the organization, venue, presenter, agents, participants, or players are not responsible or liable for any injuries, sickness, or death resulting from such causes. Holder acknowledges that the COVID-19 pandemic remains a threat to individual and public health, COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease transmitted through human contact and respiratory droplets (including through the air and via common surfaces) and it is possible that Holder may contract COVID-19 while at the event for which this ticket is issued. Holder agrees by use of this ticket not to transmit or aid in transmitting any description, account, picture, or reproduction of the event to which this ticket is issued. Breach of the foregoing will automatically terminate this license. Holder agrees that the license comprised by this ticket may be removed and Holder may be ejected from the event for which this ticket is issued in the event that Holder violates any law, ordinance, or venue regulation. Holder grants permission to the organization sponsoring the event for which this ticket is issued to utilize Holder’s image or likeness in connection with any video or other transmission or reproduction of the event to which this ticket relates.

Sep 19, 2025

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Intermediate Banjo with Kyle Tigges - An Eight-Week Class

An Eight-Week Class with Kyle Tigges Thursdays at 8:00pm: 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6 Advancing on techniques taught in Banjo I, Banjo II is for players with an existing knowledge of chords, music, and the fundamentals of the right hand pattern and clawhammer technique. We will use tablature to play through popular folk songs as well as introduce students to techniques like sliding, hammer-ons/pull-offs, and drills to further each students ability. For financial aid email lynette@jalopytheatre.org.

Sep 19, 2025

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Harmony Singing for All with Caroline Kuhn - An Eight-Week Class

An Eight-Week Class with Caroline Kuhn Saturdays from 2 pm - 3:30 pm: 9/20, 9/27, 10/11, 10/18, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22 This class will focus on group harmony singing and vocal technique. We will learn a range of music featuring different styles of vocal harmony, focusing on learning each part by ear. Sheet music will often be provided, but reading ability is not required. All vocal ranges welcome, no experience necessary! Feel free to email thisiscarolinekuhn@gmail.com if you have any questions or want to figure out if this class is right for you For financial aid email lynette@jalopytheatre.org.

Sep 20, 2025

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Jalopy Bandcamp with Caroline Kuhn - An Eight-Week Class

An Eight-Week Class with Caroline Kuhn Saturdays from 4 pm - 5:30 pm: 9/20, 9/27, 10/11, 10/18, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22 This class is open to singers and instrumentalists (advanced beginner and higher) who want to learn how to play in a band and gain confidence in their performances. We will discuss how to arrange music together in small and large ensembles, how to find one’s voice within a group, and strategies for becoming more comfortable on stage. During these sessions, we will work on songs in both a large ensemble and in two smaller bands. At the end of the last class, we will host a song share with sign up open to the public, and kick off the night with the repertoire we’ve worked up as a group. Along the way, we'll work on musicianship and ensemble skills, tackling performance nerves, and just have fun! Repertoire will be a range of songs that lend themselves to band arrangements. If you have song suggestions, please offer them! All instruments are welcome! However, if you play a non-string instrument (piano, drums, woodwinds, etc.), please contact Caroline prior to enrollment to make sure we can accommodate your instrument at the school. Chord-based Instrumentalists will need to be able to read and play simple chord progressions. Vocalists and melodic instrumentalists will need to be able to match pitch and learn melodies by ear. Feel free to email thisiscarolinekuhn@gmail.com if you have any questions or want to figure out if this class is right for you For financial aid email lynette@jalopytheatre.org.

Sep 20, 2025

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Ukulele from Scratch with Liz Rabson Schnore - An Eight-Week Class

An Eight-Week Class with Liz Rabson Schnore Saturdays at 1:00 PM: 9/27, 10/4, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/15, 11/22 Ukulele from scratch is for the absolute beginner. We will review tuning, how to play basic chords, strumming, rhythm, dynamics, and how to read uke chord charts, with a focus on singing while playing. Every class will involve time to play together and learning uke jam etiquette. We will review the care of your instrument, changing strings, and finding resources. Once you have completed this class you will feel comfortable playing in a group setting, playing a whole song, including beginnings and endings. You will need a ukulele and a tuner. Recommended: a strap and the book The Daily Ukulele. If you do not have any of these items let us know and we can help you purchase them. *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org Liz Rabson Schnore is a Brooklyn-based musician and visual artist. Daughter of acclaimed blueswoman Ann Rabson, she grew up in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She has lived in Brooklyn for twenty-five years. A multi-instrumentalist, she plays primarily the ukulele, but also guitar, harmonica, and lap steel, in the country, blues, ragtime, and roots traditions. She performs with the Queens of Everything and the Liz Rabson Trio, and is a side-woman in other local bands. She co-organizes the Brooklyn Ukes at the Jalopy Theatre, as well as music programing at the Gowanus Canal Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse, including the Creekers Jamboree and the Boathouse Jam, and is active in the Brooklyn ukulele, jamming, and folk/roots music scene.

Sep 27, 2025

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Ukulele Ensemble with Liz Rabson Schnore - An Eight-Week Class

An Eight-Week Class with Liz Rabson Schnore Saturdays at 2:00 PM: 9/27, 10/4, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/15, 11/22 Ukulele Ensemble is for anyone who wants to take their ukulele game to the next level. We will take a deep dive into creating arrangements for ensemble play, with a focus on performance. This class will cover rhythm, dynamics, and playing with authority, with tips for playing and singing at the same time. The arrangements will include parts for all levels and types of ukuleles. We will work on techniques for keeping things interesting both for you and for an audience. We will explore traditional ukulele music, and uke-friendly songs. We will learn a new song in each class, working on techniques to get off-book so that at the end of the class we will have a good selection of songs for an end-of-session recital. To join this class you will need to know the basics of ukulele play, how to tune and be able to switch between chords. In addition to a ukulele, we recommend that you have a tuner and a ukulele strap. If you are an absolute beginner, we recommend that you take the Ukulele from Scratch class first.. *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org Liz Rabson Schnore is a Brooklyn-based musician and visual artist. Daughter of acclaimed blueswoman Ann Rabson, she grew up in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She has lived in Brooklyn for twenty-five years. A multi-instrumentalist, she plays primarily the ukulele, but also guitar, harmonica, and lap steel, in the country, blues, ragtime, and roots traditions. She performs with the Queens of Everything and the Liz Rabson Trio, and is a side-woman in other local bands. She co-organizes the Brooklyn Ukes at the Jalopy Theatre, as well as music programing at the Gowanus Canal Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse, including the Creekers Jamboree and the Boathouse Jam, and is active in the Brooklyn ukulele, jamming, and folk/roots music scene.

Sep 27, 2025

Jalopy Theatre

Private Voice Lessons

Once you make your purchase we will contact you and set you up a time with an instructor at your convenience. Lesson Cancellation Policy: Once a lesson is scheduled, you can cancel it or reschedule it with no charge and no penalty by contacting your teacher at least 24 hours before your lesson. With fewer than 24 hours notice, there are no cancellations and you will be charged for the lesson. All lessons must be scheduled within a year of purchase.

Oct 03, 2025

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Songwriting with Isto - An Eight-Week Online Class

with Chris "Isto" White Mondays ONLINE at 8:00pm: 10/6, 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24 An 8-week class on the art of songwriting. Each week, we will discuss some different aspects of songwriting (both in terms of lyrics and music). Students will be given songwriting assignments, and the following week we will go over what people have come up with, and discuss some new ideas. A good excuse to get yourself writing more songs! Open to songwriters at any level of experience (whether you’ve never written a song before or have written hundreds). This class will meet virtually on Zoom. A link will be sent to your email a few days before the class begins. For financial aid email lynette@jalopytheatre.org.

Oct 07, 2025

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Songs of Bob Dylan with Isto - An Eight-Week Online Class

Songs of Bob Dylan with Chris "Isto" White Mondays ONLINE at 9:00pm: 10/6, 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24 An 8-week online guitar class covering the songs of Bob Dylan. Learn to sing and play a bunch of his best songs and greatest hits. Open to anybody who is comfortable playing the basic open chords, and can play some barre chords. While looking at different songs, students will learn some of Bob Dylan's picking patterns and tricks, and also learn a few songs in Open D/Open E tuning. This class will meet virtually on Zoom. A link will be sent to your email a few days before the class begins. For financial aid email lynette@jalopytheatre.org.

Oct 07, 2025

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Tuesday Morning Music

TUESDAY MORNING MUSIC at JALOPY! ALL AGES WELCOME Drop-in $25 per family (PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE) 9:30am - 10:15am 10:30am - 11:15am We'll be sharing songs with folks of all ages in this cross-generational singalong. Come down to Jalopy to sing, dance, or even just to hang out and listen. We'll keep things easy-going as we slowly get the music flowing again. $25 per family (PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE) Please reach out with any questions and ideas: kyle@jalopytheatre.org KYLE TIGGES: Kyle Tigges is musical artist and activist born and raised in middle America who is currently residing in New York. You can find Kyle happily sharing a wide mix of upbeat and bittersweet tunes with folks of all ages in and around the NYC and Hudson Valley areas. He is primarily a singer and guitar/banjo player but he enjoys fumbling around on harmonica, drums, and fiddle. ​ Kyle Tigges has become a go-to musician for live music for many folks and frequents an eclectic mix of vibrant venues in his community. Keeping music local and bringing people together with music is one of the most powerful ways to boost environmental awareness and create the kind of change that is sustainable and regenerative as we work together towards a healthy, beautiful planet.

Oct 14, 2025

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Thursday Afternoon Singalong

THURSDAY AFTERNOON FAMILY SINGALONG at JALOPY! ALL AGES WELCOME Drop-in $25 per family (PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE) 3:30pm - 4:15pm We'll be sharing songs with folks of all ages in this cross-generational singalong. Come down to Jalopy to sing, dance, clap, or even just hang out and listen. $25 per family (PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE) Please reach out with any questions and ideas: kyle@jalopytheatre.org leah@jalopytheatre.org LEAH TASH: Leah Tash is a born and raised New Yorker who has years of experience teaching music and singing songs with little ones. Her passion spans across many different genres, cultures, and artists. Whether it’s a rock ’n’ roll song she grew up on or a traditional tune written long ago, Leah’s repertoire is full of all of the songs and stories she is most inspired by. She hopes to pass this inspiration on to folks of all generations, and maybe even get them to groove a little too!

Oct 16, 2025

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Paper Anniversary / The Y'all Stars

Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm $15 adv / $20 DOS Paper Anniversary is led by husband and wife songwriting duo Katherine Slingluff and Andy Stuckey. Their songs are a blend of Country, Bluegrass and Americana that spotlight the highs and lows of being in a relationship. Their debut album Signature Confessions was released in 2014. Stuckey and Slingluff are both from Dothan, Alabama but currently live in Brooklyn, NY. They have played Joe’s Pub, The Atlantic, Jalopy, Rockwood Music Hall, The Egremont Barn and can be seen brightening commuters days in the NYC Subways as part of the Music Under New York program. The band is made up of Cole Rotante on dobro, Diane Stockwell on fiddle, and an awesome bass player who likely plays in a few other bands because all the good ones do. Fans of close harmony, early country, and bluegrass rejoice! This is the first time the Y’all Stars have played a full set since 2008. The band features Charles Puckette on guitar and tenor guitar, Diane Stockwell on fiddle, Ben Fraker on mandolin, Fran Leadon on guitar, Nancy Polstein on snare, and Sam Dallas on bass.

Oct 16, 2025

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Burstin' Boots Dance Party with The Slide Stops and Sargent Seedoo!

$20 adv / $25 door Sargent Seedoo teaches yr feet The moves and swings he'll chant Gd respects us when we work But Loves us when we dance! 7:30-8pm: Simple 2 Step Lesson, Simple Line Dance Lesson 8-8:45pm: Band strikes up and we dance 9-9:30pm: A lil tougher line dance and some more 2 Step moves 9:30-10:15pm: Band strikes up and we dance 10:15pm: Last Call, Move it on over to the Jackson Lynch Band at Jalopy Tavern Line dancing provides a space for everybody to move w/ one another and feel that power of dancing in time w/ others w/o the touch.

Oct 17, 2025

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Exceedingly Good Song Night with Ken Schatz AT JALOPY TAVERN

We sing Folk Songs, Blues, Gospel, Old-Time, Appalachian, Sea Songs & Chanteys, Worksongs, Ballads, Railroad Songs, Prison Songs, Lullabies, Forebitters, Broadsides, Hymns, Vaudeville, Camp Songs, Farming, Mining & Factory Songs, Country, Bluegrass, Spirituals, Cowboy Songs, Songs of the British Isles, Labor & Union Songs, Drinking Songs, Children’s Songs, Field Hollers, Music Hall, Love Songs, Parodies, and more... We welcome singers and listeners! Also instruments and friends! Each Song Night, we have a loose theme to encourage people to learn new songs and remember ones they haven't sung in a while. Witty rationalizations are welcome. Harmonies and Songs with Choruses are especially appreciated!

Oct 19, 2025

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Michael Daves, Tony Trischka, and Erik Alvar

Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm $30 adv / $35 DOS Tony Trischka is considered to be the consummate banjo artist and one of the most influential banjo players in the roots music world. For more than 50 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians with the many voices he has brought to the instrument. He’s been nominated twice for Grammy awards, and has won numerous International Bluegrass Music Association awards including Banjo Player of the Year. Heralded as “a leading light of the New York bluegrass scene” by the New York Times, Georgia-born guitarist/singer Michael Daves has garnered attention for his work with Tony Trischka, Steve Martin, and Chris Thile, with whom he shares a Grammy nomination for their 2011 album Sleep With One Eye Open. Daves’ unruly interpretations of American roots music standards have won him a place of almost fanatical admiration as a "renegade traditionalist." Erik Alvar is one of NYC’s most formidable upright bassists, bringing together deep bluegrass feel with classical chops. He has toured with Billy Strings, Nefesh Mountain, Tony Trischka, Rebecca Frazier, The Roys, and Jim Hurst among others. This will be one of Erik’s last gigs as NYC resident, before a move to North Carolina. Come give him a fond farewell!

Oct 20, 2025

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Ryan Lee Crosby / Todd Albright

Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm Ryan Lee Crosby is currently based in Rhode Island, but his musical heart is in Mississippi. He has released numerous albums, toured internationally and is a leading practitioner of the Bentonia School of rural Delta blues, as well as a world music explorer. Smithsonian Magazine praised his ability to "bring influences from Africa and India to the Bentonia sound." Crosby's new album "At the Blue Front" (featuring Grammy nominated bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes) offers a haunting, hypnotic meld of Bentonia and Hill Country blues. Recorded on reel to reel tape over two afternoons at Holmes’ iconic Mississippi juke joint, the album was produced, recorded and mixed by Crosby, with a selection of original compositions, traditional repertoire and fully improvised songs. Crosby finds deep inspiration and spiritual refuge in Bentonia, where he has been mentored for six years by Holmes, the man who is widely regarded as the last living master of the style. Blending reverence for tradition with a modern, trance-inducing approach, Crosby's process is informed by diverse influences that include Indian raga, ambient music and post-punk rock. For Crosby, all these seemingly disparate threads weave together through the meditative power of the blues. With collaborators Grant Smith and Jay Scheffler, At the Blue Front captures a moving journey of self-discovery, resilience, and artistic clarity. “Playing with Jimmy,” Crosby says, “it’s the joy, it’s the learning, it’s the connection and transcendence and what feels to me like a fulfillment of life’s purpose.” “What first intrigued me about Ryan Lee Crosby is how rare he is on paper: a former English major and post-punk rocker who can channel 1930s Mississippi.” - Lauren Daley — WBUR/NPR Todd Albright is a country blues, twelve-string guitar player and vocalist based in Detroit, Michigan. Grounded in the pre-war era of the blues tradition (1880-1939), Todd is a mindful purveyor of blues history. His repertoire upholds musical pillars such as Blind Willie McTell, George Carter, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Leadbelly. His life’s work continues the distinguished tradition of the very roots of American music as told by the African American musicians who created it. Todd Albright joined Jack White’s Third Man Records in 2016. Todd's vigorous, gritty and soulful performances are accompanied by stories of the masters and a deep intuitive sense of respect for craft, providing audiences with a meaningful experience while creating a transcendent moment. One of the top blues guitarists in the world, Todd is the only contemporary twelve string player in his genre. Todd's first full-length LP, Fourth Floor Visitor, was released by Jett Plastic Recordings out of Detroit, Michigan (2017). His latest album, Detroit Twelve String: Blues & Rags, is out now on Third Man Records (2017). His forthcoming third album is set to be released by Third Man Records. " Many musicians can cop the notes played by blues and ragtime greats, but few contemporary guitarists are as successful at conveying the unscripted energy and driving feel of this music as Todd Albright." - Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Oct 23, 2025

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Hootenanny Family Music 2025

It’s been a couple of years but it’s time for another Hootenanny, celebrating the family music community that’s built over the past twenty years and, importantly, looking to the future as well. The Hoot is our family industry gathering/showcase that originally (way back in 2006) helped grow the collaborative family music community and then operated as KindieFest for many years. These are always an epic blast for all involved and attending which included fellow artists, promoters and media. And we’re back! Come on out for a great time (aimed at grown-ups!). Featuring: Miss Katie Sings & Sonia De Los Santos Little Miss Ann & Miss Tutti Marsha and the Positrons & Davey & Peter The Pop Ups & SteveSongs Mega Ran & BTTY's After School Band Svetlana/Swing Makes You Sing & Snookuk Princess Backpack & Benjamin & Jesse Jukebox Todd ‘n’ Tina & Lloyd Miller (of the Deedle Deedle Dees

Oct 24, 2025

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Old-Time Songs and Harmony - A Workshop with Phyllis Elkind and Jen Larson

with Phyllis Elkind and Jen Larson Sunday, October 26th, 11 AM - 1 PM Explore songs and styles from the early days of rural Southern commercial music – the roots of bluegrass and country music. You will learn songs by artists including The Carter Family, Riley Puckett, Jimmie Rodgers, the Delmore Brothers, Coon Creek Girls, and Blue Sky Boys. We love these songs and think you will too! Most of the songs have harmony parts - no instrument is needed, and all levels of experience are welcome! Jen Larson is a Nashville-based archivist, historian, bluegrass vocalist, and educator. She has performed at regional and national festivals, participated in educational programs through Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and appeared on “Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.” In 2014, she released “Burning House,” an EP produced by Michael Daves. Jen has performed and co-taught with Daves, contributed vocals to his ArtistWorks Bluegrass Vocals course, and taught at Bluegrass Week at Augusta Heritage Center. From 2016 to 2023, she was Archives Manager for the Grand Ole Opry and is now researching bluegrass pioneer Hazel Dickens. Phyllis Elkind is a singer, guitarist, and teacher. She performs in two bluegrass trios – The Sentimentals, with Gene Yellin and Sam Dallas, and Say Darlin Say, with Melody Allegra Berger and Sam Dallas – and is an active participant in NYC’s vibrant jam scene. Phyllis has taught harmony classes at Jalopy since 2014 and has also taught Doo Wop singing at the McBurney YMCA. In the Hudson Valley, she leads harmony workshops for the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association, for the Old-Timey Song Swap, and at The Muse.

Oct 26, 2025

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Halloween Special from Spiffemol Industries

Just in time for Halloween! Absurdly spooky and original audio theater in an old-time radio style. Walk through hell with us, check yourself into Transylvania Hospital, and cope with an onslaught of Trick or Treaters. Also enjoy a vintage episode of Suspense from 1946. Both in-person AND streaming live from Jalopy. $15 suggested donation.

Oct 26, 2025

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Bluegrass Jam Ensemble Class (Beginner to Intermediate) - An Eight-Week Group Class with Christian Apuzzo

with Christian Apuzzo Tuesdays from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm: 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, 12/9, 12/16 Have you ever wanted to play bluegrass music with other people but never knew where to start? This class will focus on just that: bluegrass jam etiquette. This section of the Bluegrass Jam class is for Beginner to Intermediate players who can play basic chord progressions and would benefit from moving at a slower tempo while learning new songs and the basics of how to play in an ensemble. We will learn various popular bluegrass tunes from artists such as Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, and many more. You’ll also learn basic skills like ear training and music theory to help you navigate tunes you may not be familiar with, and give you the essentials to sound great even on a tune you have never heard before! *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Oct 28, 2025

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Bluegrass Jam Ensemble (Intermediate to Advanced) with Christian Apuzzo - A Four-Week Group Class

with Christian Apuzzo Tuesdays from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm: 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, 12/9, 12/16 This section of the Bluegrass Jam class is for Intermediate to Advanced players who feel agile with chord progressions and are ready to dive in and jam at faster tempos and explore soloing. Students must know all major and minor chords, barre chords, how to use the capo to transpose, familiar with the Nashville Number System and fluent in the keys of C, D, E, G, and A, familiar with the pentatonic scale in those keys as well. Must also be able to learn and play melodies by ear, have at least 5 bluegrass songs known and/or memorized. We will learn various popular bluegrass tunes from artists such as Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, and many more. You’ll also learn basic skills like ear training and music theory to help you navigate tunes you may not be familiar with, and give you the essentials to sound great even on a tune you have never heard before! *For financial aid and payment plans contact Lynette at Lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Oct 29, 2025

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Anti-Fascist Song Night, Book Event, and DSA Fund Benefit

This event will end with a 30 minute performance by the DSA choir, Sing in Solidarity. We will also provide information on how to get involved with the DSA and Zohran Mamdani's campaign ! Celebrate the launch of From the Flag to the Cross and We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System with author and activist Jonathan Rosenblum, members of the Amazon Labor Union, and a performance by the DSA choir. We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics From inside Kshama Sawant’s historic tenure in Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for twenty-first-century socialists, a counterpoint to the strategies favored by The Squad and other progressive activists. From the Flag to the Cross: Fascism American Style Has fascism arrived dressed in stars and stripes? This book offers a sharp analysis of American authoritarianism, how we got here, how to organize, and how to resist.

Oct 30, 2025

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Peter Stampfel's 'Song Shards' Album Release

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm $20 adv / $25 DOS “Next to Bob Dylan, Stampfel is the closest thing to a genius that [the folk scene] produced.” – Robert Christgau "Song Shards" is a new album from Peter Stampfel, founder of the Holy Modal Rounders and the Fugs. This 46 track album features ancient Stoic aphorisms, set to to music by Stampfel, as well as his own aphorisms (song shards) - and a selection of 1940's advertising jingles. Most of the songs are very short! Help us celebrate the release of this great new album on Jalopy Records Don’t miss this special night of music! Check out the album at: JalopyRecords.org — And available on all your favorite streaming services. And don't miss the extensive, illustrated, 14,000 word liner notes, available digitally.

Oct 30, 2025

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Jalopoween Burstin' Boots Dance Party with The Slide Stops and Sargent Seedoo!

$20 adv / $25 door Sargent Seedoo teaches yr feet The moves and swings he'll chant Gd respects us when we work But Loves us when we dance! 7:30-8pm: Simple 2 Step Lesson, Simple Line Dance Lesson 8-8:45pm: Band strikes up and we dance 9-9:30pm: A lil tougher line dance and some more 2 Step moves 9:30-10:15pm: Band strikes up and we dance 10:15pm: Last Call, Move it on over to the Jackson Lynch Band at Jalopy Tavern Line dancing provides a space for everybody to move w/ one another and feel that power of dancing in time w/ others w/o the touch.

Oct 31, 2025

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Learning Banjo Tunes on the Fly with Anna Roberts-Gevalt - A Workshop

A Workshop with Anna Roberts-Gevalt Saturday, November 1, 11 AM - 1 PM Often, we learn by slowing things down, breaking tunes down into small parts and gradually speeding up, However, for this class, we're going to approach things from the opposite direction, and focus on sharpening the skills of learning tunes "at speed" - on the fly! This is a real-world skill set it's great to have when you are a jam setting, listening to a recording, or learning a tune from a fiddler without hearing a banjo "version" of it. It can be stressful and overwhelming to try to join in when you have no idea how the tune goes! Anna will break down some of the steps and skills for this process, including: - identifying common patterns/fingerings in the different tunings (and patterns to practice at home!) - listening skills that help you understand what you are hearing -- keeping track of (and remembering) the different parts of a tune - making a simple bare-bones version of a tune when it's new (and how to gradually add detail to it!) We'll also work on some background rhythm licks and chords to play/support the fiddler with as you're figuring the tune out. To inquire about scholarship/financial aid, please email lynette@jalopytheatre.org. The Jalopy Theatre is fully ADA accessible, including wheelchair-accessible bathrooms. The Theatre is also equipped with large circulating fans that have UV air cleaners to help create a safer indoor environment.

Nov 01, 2025

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Expanding Your Singing Voice with Joy Askew - A Workshop

Expanding Your Singing Voice - A Workshop with Joy Askew Sunday November 2, 11 am - 1 pm Your voice leads a song! Renowned vocal coach and singer Joy Askew joins us for a workshop that covers many aspects of vocal technique, from the nuts and bolts of vocal production to vocal health to how to deliver a song with expression and confidence, leading everyone in a journey of awareness. Joy's approach draws on the strength of embodied singing, using gravity and movement to trigger freedom and lightness in the body, freeing the throat, tongue, and jaw, and helping singers take their sound from a whisper to a roar. You'll experiment with how your voice resonates best, try exercises to stretch to places you thought you couldn't reach, and work towards freeing up difficulties that challenge flexibility in singing. Find the true sound of your own voice and make it work for you! Participants will work primarily as a group, but there will be also time for those interested to share a song and work one-on-one with Joy within the group setting. If you'd like to share a solo song, please email Joy at joyaskew@gmail.com . Joy Askew (https://www.joyaskew.com/) has enjoyed a stellar career playing alongside music icons like Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Joe Jackson, Rodney Crowell, Jack Bruce, and Quincy Jones. She has performed with her own band on stages from CBGBs to festivals in the UK, USA, Japan, and Europe, and has opened for David Bowie and for David Byrne. Along the way, she has sung in a choir featured on an EP by Sufjan Stevens, collaborated with a British brass band, and released a downtempo jazz electronica album. photo by Tomek Miernowski Scholarship funds are available. Please email lynette@jalopytheatre.org for details.

Nov 02, 2025

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Smyrnëka and Rebetika with Carol Freeman - A Workshop

Smyrnëka and Rebetika Workshop with Carol Freeman Sunday November 2nd, 2-4 pm Songs of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s Urban Greek ala Turka Cafe Amans and Hashish Dens Sing Makam, Intricate Ornamentation, and Uneven Rhythms Sing with Increased Comfort, Clarity, and Control This workshop will teach participants to sing the magnificent vocal repertoire of early 20th Century Asia Minor Greek artists, as well as the heartfelt songs of later renowned Greek Rebetika performers, with authenticity and ease. We will learn to sing deliciously intricate ornamentation, complex rhythms, and microtonal scales - makam, or dhromi (roads) in Greek - in a process that is fluid and fun. By learning how to carefully listen to source recordings and then learning simple tricks to make singing the songs effortless, we'll be able to sing an involved repertoire with comfort, clarity, and control, as well as with original vocal styling. We will also learn how to seamlessly switch between vocal placements without detection, will learn how to produce optimal tone, and will learn how to phrase songs so as to provide for maximum depth of expression, artistry, and musicality. The songs have simply gorgeous melodies, and are lush with embellishment. The texts leave no stone unturned, and deal with scorching love, unbearable pain, cocaine, hashish, and heroine, lesbianism, monkey serum fountain of youth injections, harem girls, Hawaiian guitar music, and anything else one may fancy. Though the repertoire is challenging and instruction is detailed and specific, the workshop is taught in a supportive, comfortable and relaxed setting, and is always fun. Well known as a performer, researcher, and teacher of a variety of Balkan, Greek, Judaic, and other singing traditions, Carol Freeman has performed since 1970 as vocalist for The Smyrneīki Kompania, Sevda Balkan Music Ensemble, Song of the Shtetl, Village Voices, and Zhenska Pesna, and as a solo interpreter of traditional song, and has appeared at major arts centers, festivals, museums, and universities, and on radio and television, throughout North America. A master vocal instructor, Carol Freeman has taught extensively as a private instructor and at specialized arts schools, music seminars, universities, and museums since 1970. She is a 2023, 2024, and 2025 NYS Council on the Arts Master of Folk Arts. She has been actively researching, performing, and teaching Smyrnëika and Rebetika for close to five decades.

Nov 02, 2025

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Singing! A Four-Session Class with Katie Martucci

with Katie Martucci Mondays, 7:00 - 8:30pm: 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24 *** please note: class on 11/17 will end at 8 pm, and class at 11/24 will go until 9 pm to make up the half-hour shortened from the week before. All voices welcome! Looking to connect with your voice and other singers? Curious about hearing and singing vocal harmonies? Join us for this 4 week course! Each class we will learn a new song with vocal harmonies and dive into questions of vocal technique, looking at the ways each of us can feel more grounded, confident and playful in our singing. Feel free to email Katie at katharine.a.martucci@gmail.com if you have any questions! For financial aid email Lynette@jalopytheatre.org

Nov 04, 2025

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The 2025 Brooklyn Folk Fest Friday Ticket

VIEW LINEUP HERE! Brought to you in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Howard Gilman Foundation, the Epstein Foundation, the Folk Music Society of New York, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the O'Connell Organization, Archer Roose Wines, and Five Boroughs Brewery.

Nov 08, 2025

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The 2025 Brooklyn Folk Fest Saturday Afternoon Ticket

VIEW LINEUP HERE! Brought to you in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Howard Gilman Foundation, the Epstein Foundation, the Folk Music Society of New York, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the O'Connell Organization, Archer Roose Wines, and Five Boroughs Brewery.

Nov 08, 2025

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The 2025 Brooklyn Folk Fest Saturday Evening Ticket

VIEW LINEUP HERE! Brought to you in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Howard Gilman Foundation, the Epstein Foundation, the Folk Music Society of New York, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the O'Connell Organization, Archer Roose Wines, and Five Boroughs Brewery.

Nov 09, 2025

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The 2025 Brooklyn Folk Fest Sunday Afternoon Ticket

VIEW LINEUP HERE! Brought to you in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Howard Gilman Foundation, the Epstein Foundation, the Folk Music Society of New York, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the O'Connell Organization, Archer Roose Wines, and Five Boroughs Brewery.

Nov 09, 2025

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The 2025 Brooklyn Folk Fest Sunday Evening Ticket

VIEW LINEUP HERE! Brought to you in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Howard Gilman Foundation, the Epstein Foundation, the Folk Music Society of New York, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the O'Connell Organization, Archer Roose Wines, and Five Boroughs Brewery.

Nov 09, 2025

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Judee Sill in Memorium

Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm $20 adv / $25 DOS 46 years after her death, musicians from around Brooklyn will come together to celebration of Judee Sill’s compositional life and legacy, in all its brilliance and color. Featuring a full string section and instruments, the beloved recorded arrangements will be honored as closely as possible. Musicians involved include Ali Dineen, Minnie Jordan, Lily Talmers, Aidan Scrimgeour, Camellia Hartman, Ellie MacPhee, Nicholas Gallitano, Charlotte Hill, Elise Leavy, Sami Stevens, Katy Pinke, Brendan Hearn, Katie Martucci, Camille Vogely-Howes, Ledah Finck, Ben Roberts, Gabe Lee, Aidan Cafferty, Luke Bergman, and Tree Palmedo, among others!

Nov 13, 2025

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Finding Lucinda - Live Film Screening

Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm $20 adv / $25 DOS Aspiring singer-songwriter ISMAY (Avery Hellman) takes a soul-searching road trip through the American South to uncover the roots of music legend Lucinda Williams. Featuring newly discovered early recordings and intimate interviews with Lucinda herself, Finding Lucinda is a deeply personal documentary about the transformative power of music and creative self-discovery. Featuring Lucinda Williams, Charlie Sexton, Buddy Miller, Mary Gauthier, Max & Josh Baca, and more.

Nov 14, 2025

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Brivele / A Glezele Tey

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm $20 adv / $25 DOS Brivele is a Seattle-based duo who braid together Yiddish song, anti-fascist and labor balladry, folk-punk, and contemporary rabble-rousing in stirring vocal harmony. In Yiddish, Brivele ( עלעווירב ( means "little letter." Like letters, songs travel — through time and over borders. They pick up dirt, aromas, fingerprints. They are sent to lovers, they foment revolution, they get stolen and censored, burned and salvaged, sewn into our clothes. Brivele is Maia Brown and Stefanie Brendler, who journey into the archives of Yiddish anti-fascist musical tradition, bringing together anti authoritarian satire, mournful remembrances, and the disguised political commentary in folk ditties and theater classics. These songs are a correspondence: ancestors' voices speaking clearly and uncompromisingly, sometimes sweetly, to the present moment. brivele.com A Glezele Tey (Yiddish for “a little glass of tea”) invites you into their living room for a little glass of tea from the samovar, bringing audiences into an intimate and enthralling world of klezmer, Yiddish folk song, and tkhines (traditional Ashkenazi prayers centering the experiences of women, trans, and gender non-conforming people, set to new melodies). Drawing from old recordings and contemporary culture rooted in the Eastern European Jewish diaspora, A Glezele Tey’s music is an act of deep care—rooted in community gathering, lineage, and ritual, we raise our collective voices to move through grief, inspire action, and build a frayer velt (a freer world). ​A Glezele Tey is comprised of acclaimed klezmer musicians and composers Ariel Shapiro, Rachel Leader, and Richie Barshay. aglezeletey.com

Nov 15, 2025

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Zingeray + Jam with Brivele and A Glezele Tey

12:30pm doors 1pm zingeray Sliding scale $10-20 Join members of Brivele and A Glezele Tey for an afternoon of singing Yiddish folk songs and learning about Ashkenazi music & culture, with live musical accompaniment. From old classics to newly written melodies, we will explore the breadth and depth of the Yiddish song movement and the current surge of creativity & cross-generational collaboration happening today. Songbooks will be provided, and participants will come away with the tools to continue singing and creating new interpretations, translations, and songs of their own. No prior knowledge of Yiddish needed—all are welcome! Brivele is a Seattle-based duo who braid together Yiddish song, anti-fascist and labor balladry, folk-punk, and contemporary rabble-rousing in stirring vocal harmony. In Yiddish, Brivele ( עלעווירב ( means "little letter." Like letters, songs travel — through time and over borders. They pick up dirt, aromas, fingerprints. They are sent to lovers, they foment revolution, they get stolen and censored, burned and salvaged, sewn into our clothes. Brivele is Maia Brown and Stefanie Brendler, who journey into the archives of Yiddish anti-fascist musical tradition, bringing together anti authoritarian satire, mournful remembrances, and the disguised political commentary in folk ditties and theater classics. These songs are a correspondence: ancestors' voices speaking clearly and uncompromisingly, sometimes sweetly, to the present moment. brivele.com A Glezele Tey (Yiddish for “a little glass of tea”) invites you into their living room for a little glass of tea from the samovar, bringing audiences into an intimate and enthralling world of klezmer, Yiddish folk song, and tkhines (traditional Ashkenazi prayers centering the experiences of women, trans, and gender non-conforming people, set to new melodies). Drawing from old recordings and contemporary culture rooted in the Eastern European Jewish diaspora, A Glezele Tey’s music is an act of deep care—rooted in community gathering, lineage, and ritual, we raise our collective voices to move through grief, inspire action, and build a frayer velt (a freer world). A Glezele Tey is comprised of acclaimed klezmer musicians and composers Ariel Shapiro, Rachel Leader, and Richie Barshay. aglezeletey.com

Nov 15, 2025

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FIDDLE-CURIOUS? A Workshop for Violin Players with Rachel Meirs

Fiddle-Curious? A Workshop with Rachel Meirs Sunday, November 16th 2-4pm Register for one, or take both 11/16 and 11/23 and get a discount! Perhaps you learned violin in grade school but never picked it back up, or you have a rigorous classical background? Perhaps you played or still play violin but you’re just curious about what other genres of music are out there? Perhaps, you have even been playing fiddle but are curious about ways to make it sound MORE fiddle-y and less violin-y? These workshops for are folks who are familiar and comfortable with their instrument, but want to: learn more about fiddling in general learn the ways playing techniques might differ or be applied in different contexts learn some fiddle tunes with extra attention paid to how we are playing and making sounds improve your playing without it sounding stiff nerd out with some folks about the fiddle in a friendly and open environment You do not need to read music to participate! We will learn tunes by ear, and sheet music will be given afterwards as a reference. Workshop #1: We will work on the fast stuff! We’ll learn a fiddle tune, talk about bowing techniques for speed and string crossings, go over some helpful left hand tricks, as well as ways to loosen up your playing while still hitting the notes, and how to keep a driving beat. If we have time to learn more than one tune we will, but even if we don’t get to the tune we will talk briefly about different genres of tunes, cross-tuning, rags, country blues, and answer any other fiddle/violin questions you might have. Workshop #2: we will work on the slow and sweet stuff with a waltz and and air time permitting. We’ll discuss bowing techniques for sustained sound, shifting through double stops, when and where to embellish, how to make something pretty but not boring, and, of course, make time for questions and thoughts! To inquire about scholarship/financial aid, please email lynette@jalopytheatre.org. The Jalopy Theatre is fully ADA accessible, including wheelchair-accessible bathrooms. The Theatre is also equipped with large circulating fans that have UV air cleaners to help create a safer indoor environment.

Nov 16, 2025

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Exceedingly Good Song Night with Ken Schatz

We sing Folk Songs, Blues, Gospel, Old-Time, Appalachian, Sea Songs & Chanteys, Worksongs, Ballads, Railroad Songs, Prison Songs, Lullabies, Forebitters, Broadsides, Hymns, Vaudeville, Camp Songs, Farming, Mining & Factory Songs, Country, Bluegrass, Spirituals, Cowboy Songs, Songs of the British Isles, Labor & Union Songs, Drinking Songs, Children’s Songs, Field Hollers, Music Hall, Love Songs, Parodies, and more... We welcome singers and listeners! Also instruments and friends! Each Song Night, we have a loose theme to encourage people to learn new songs and remember ones they haven't sung in a while. Witty rationalizations are welcome. Harmonies and Songs with Choruses are especially appreciated!

Nov 16, 2025

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Theater in Asylum presents: 7 Deadly Sins Cabaret

Pride. Greed. Wrath. Lust. Envy. Gluttony. Sloth. These seven impulses have endured in the human imagination for thousands of years. What do they mean now? Are they sins? Are deadly? Are they escapable? For Theater in Asylum’s next cabaret, we ask artists to create a 10-20 minute original theater piece looking at the Seven Deadly Sins. Artists may focus on one or multiple of these sins, disparately or as a set. Theater in Asylum will be bringing an except from its still-gestating Faust pieces featuring the Seven Deadly Sins individually personified. More info coming soon! We’d like to thank The Puffin Foundation for their support of this project. The 7 Deadly Sins Cabaret is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

Nov 21, 2025

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Jalopy Theatre Presents: Family Music for Food Bank NYC Concert

Saturday, November 22nd 11-1pm Jalopy Theatre Presents: Family Music for Food Bank NYC Concert doors: 10:45am show: 11am tickets: $10 Kids/$15 Adults We welcome you to donate more for this important cause if you are able at the event! More About the Event: Join Suzi Shelton, Esther Crow, and other children's musicians for their 2nd Annual FUNdraiser to help feed NYC families. As family musicians, we wanted to partner with a local organization helping to feed hungry families in the New York area. With a 90,000 Sq Foot warehouse in the Bronx, Food Bank for NYC helps deliver food to families in all five boroughs of New York City. We are thankful to Jalopy Theatre for their partnership and commitment to community events that bring people together, and for embracing this important cause. More About Food Bank for NYC: Driven by our mission to empower every New Yorker to achieve food security for good, we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and volunteers to activate the right resources, supports, and expertise across the five boroughs. Our work with 800+ soup kitchens, food pantries, and campus partners provides immediate and reliable access to food and nutrition education, while our economic empowerment programs give people the tools and know-how to improve their financial wellness. Community by community, we work together to make progress on a more hopeful, dignified, and equitable future for all. Featured Performers: Suzi Shelton, Esther Crow, Michael Napolitano (Michael and the Rockness Monsters), Little Miss Ann, Strawbitty Yops, Evan V, Sonia De Los Santos, Princess Backpack and Benjamin, Jesse Goldman (Moozika), Vered Ronen (Baby In Tune) and Hopalong Andrew! With your support, you are helping to nourish the 1.2 million New Yorkers experiencing hunger across the five boroughs. $1 = 5 meals!

Nov 22, 2025

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Kate Taylor

Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm $30 adv / $35 DOS Kate Taylor is excited to come to the Jalopy Theater! As fans know, she’s famous for her dynamic stage presence, a rich, emotive voice honed by 5 decades of performing and recording, and her ability to draw upon a deep musical repertoire ranging from folk to gospel, rock’n’roll and R&B. Like her brothers James and Livingston, Kate grew up in North Carolina and spent summers on Martha’s Vineyard; we hear the echoes of both places in her songs. She has an almost uncanny ability to connect with her audiences on a nearly visceral level – guaranteeing an unforgettable show Link to song from her latest album. https://youtu.be/QLCE1rXXYjY

Nov 23, 2025

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FIDDLE-CURIOUS? A Workshop for Violin Players with Rachel Meirs

Fiddle-Curious? A Workshops with Rachel Meiers Sunday, November 23 2-4pm Register for one, or take both 11/16 and 11/23 and get a discount! Perhaps you learned violin in grade school but never picked it back up, or you have a rigorous classical background? Perhaps you played or still play violin but you’re just curious about what other genres of music are out there? Perhaps, you have even been playing fiddle but are curious about ways to make it sound MORE fiddle-y and less violin-y? These workshops for are folks who are familiar and comfortable with their instrument, but want to: learn more about fiddling in general learn the ways playing techniques might differ or be applied in different contexts learn some fiddle tunes with extra attention paid to how we are playing and making sounds improve your playing without it sounding stiff nerd out with some folks about the fiddle in a friendly and open environment You do not need to read music to participate! We will learn tunes by ear, and sheet music will be given afterwards as a reference. Workshop #1: We will work on the fast stuff! We’ll learn a fiddle tune, talk about bowing techniques for speed and string crossings, go over some helpful left hand tricks, as well as ways to loosen up your playing while still hitting the notes, and how to keep a driving beat. If we have time to learn more than one tune we will, but even if we don’t get to the tune we will talk briefly about different genres of tunes, cross-tuning, rags, country blues, and answer any other fiddle/violin questions you might have. Workshop #2: we will work on the slow and sweet stuff with a waltz and and air time permitting. We’ll discuss bowing techniques for sustained sound, shifting through double stops, when and where to embellish, how to make something pretty but not boring, and, of course, make time for questions and thoughts! To inquire about scholarship/financial aid, please email lynette@jalopytheatre.org. The Jalopy Theatre is fully ADA accessible, including wheelchair-accessible bathrooms. The Theatre is also equipped with large circulating fans that have UV air cleaners to help create a safer indoor environment.

Nov 23, 2025

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Bitch

Doors. 8pm, Show 8:30pm $25 adv / $30 DOS Bitch is a longstanding queer music icon who Yahoo Entertainment called “a feminist force that the world needs now more than ever” when she released “Bitchcraft,” her 9th studio album, on the legendary label Kill Rock Stars in 2022. With her signature electric violin and lyrical smarts front and center over huge beats and deep synths, Bitch coined the genre “Poet Pop” and she has been touring nationally ever since, igniting her loyal following and inspiring new followers with her colorful and bold stage shows. With a new EP on the way in 2025, and her full length follow-up to “Bitchcraft” also en route in 2026, Bitch continues to occupy a singular position in the music industry, while her live show has developed into a truly unique theatrical experience, spanning decades and genres.

Nov 24, 2025

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Stephen Kellogg's Old Friends Tour with Marc Roberge

Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm $35 Marc Roberge is a songwriter and co-founder of the legendary American rock band O.A.R. Throughout nearly three decades of releasing music and touring with the band, Roberge has enjoyed scaled down, personal acoustic performances in which he can stretch out and tell the stories that give life to the songs. A Stephen Kellogg performance is like watching Ted Lasso live. Whether he’s playing music or doing stand-up, his shows leave people inspired and restored. For more than two decades, this wordsmith, Tedx speaker, stand- up comic, author and troubadour, has delighted audiences around the world. Planet Bluegrass calls him “a first class songwriter with a poet's gift for fresh imagery,” and Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz says of Kellogg, “there are few people in rock n’ roll who are just so great.” He has received the Armed Forces Entertainer of the Year award and has had his work nominated for a Grammy. Rolling Stone magazine describes his sound as “John Prine fronting the Heartbreakers.” The recent “Sit Down & Stand Up” Tour was a one man show that opened to rave reviews from fans and critics alike, culminating in a two-night filming for a forthcoming one-hour comedy special. A mix of music, humor and storytelling, each performance paints a unique canvas that covers the full spectrum of human emotions. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll go home with a full heart.

Dec 09, 2025

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Caleb Caudle & the Sweet Critters / Nathan Xander

Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm $20 adv / $25 DOS Just as the marbled salamanders emerge from under damp logs and leaves, the mushrooms—smooth, pearlescent ones and spongy morels—turn on like night lights glowing in the dark, and the long-horned beetles and regal moths begin buzzing. The fiddlehead ferns and trout lilies curl inward, a copperhead slowly swerves, and a fox steps into the moonlight looking for prey. It is here, in that restless middle of the night, under cover of darkness, where Caleb Caudle ’s sixth studio LP Sweet Critters is nestled. Through sometimes shadowy arrangements that creep and lurk, Caudle continues to mine both the brightest and murkiest corners of his imagination, finding that purest of points where tenderness and grit collide, inspired by musical heroes like Buddy Miller and Guy Clark, and mentors like Elizabeth Cook and John Paul White. It was White who Caudle tapped to produce Sweet Critters, along with Ben Tanner, at the duo’s Florence, Alabama studio Sun Drop Sound. "I was very excited to work with Caleb on this record. Iʼve been a fan for years and count him as a friend,” White says of working with Caudle. “Heʼs a stellar songwriter, so I knew heʼd bring the goods. And he did.” The album features Allison Russell, Aoife OʼDonovan, John Paul White, and Caudleʼs own touring band. These songs are a showcase of Caudle’s singular command of language. He sees the world through a hyperreal lens wholly unique to him, one that renders dank humidity “horsefly heat,” a moody sky “cast iron skillet” dark, or a loved one’s “wind chime of a smile.” For Caudle, details are the last frontier in a world where thousands of new songs are created every day. As such, he weaves his intricate tales of redemption, sacrifice, forgiveness, and loss with the colorful threads of living, breathing characters and all the rich idiosyncrasies and ephemera that fill out their worlds. Caudle and his band have played The Grand Ole Opry, Stagecoach, Cayamo, Luck Reunion, Mountain Stage, Merlefest, Americanafest, The Long Road (UK), AMAUK (UK), and recently supported Marty Stuart, Steve Earle, Hayes Carll, Elizabeth Cook, Brent Cobb, Charles Wesley Godwin, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and many more. Nathan Xander writes songs that are steeped in the quiet, restrained tension of what Greil Marcus called the ‘Old, Weird America’. The New York based songwriter has spent the last decade refining his craft across stages of all sizes, from dive bars to folk festivals; having shared bills with Justin Townes Earle, Tyler Childers, Lydia Loveless, Tommy Stinson, Robbie Fulks, and Howe Gelb of Giant Sand. Xander sorts through love, loss, and evolving identity as he stands on the threshold of a new era in his own career.

Dec 11, 2025

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Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff

Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm Michael Daves and Jacob Jolliff are two of America’s premier bluegrass talents. After years of collaborating in various bands and informal settings they have teamed up as a formidable duo featuring high lonesome vocal harmony and fiery flatpicking. Their sound is an homage to the classic guitar-mandolin “brother duets” while leaving plenty of room for improvisation and inspired left turns. They effortlessly straddle the line between hard-core traditional bluegrass and experimental forms. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Michael Daves grew up playing bluegrass in the grand old tradition of staying up late & singing loud. Although he’s since moved north, the Southern roots permeate his music, however traditional or experimental. Heralded as “a leading light of the New York bluegrass scene” by the New York Times, Daves has garnered attention for his work with Chris Thile, Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, Bruce Molsky and others in addition to his solo performances. His album “Sleep With One Eye Open” with Thile earned a 2011 Grammy nomination. Daves is also one of the most experienced instructors in bluegrass music, with a vocal school on ArtistWorks, presentations at many festivals, camps, and institutions including Carnegie Hall, and a private studio going back to the mid- 1990s. Jacob Jolliff has become one of the country's most notable contemporary mandolinists. He was a member of the beloved New England roots band Joy Kills Sorrow, while attending Berklee School of Music on a full scholarship. In 2012, Jolliff won the National Mandolin Championship in Winfield, KS. Now a fixture of the national bluegrass community, he has collaborated and shared the stage with Darol Anger, Sam Bush, Ronnie McCoury, Jerry Douglas, Tony Trischka, and David Grisman among others. When Joy Kills Sorrow disbanded in 2014, Jolliff got the call to join Yonder Mountain String Band with whom he toured full time through 2019. In 2022 Jolliff released a self-titled Jacob Jolliff Band album and toured with Béla Fleck as part of My Bluegrass Heart. Photo credit: Aidan Grant

Dec 15, 2025

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Exceedingly Good Song Night with Ken Schatz

We sing Folk Songs, Blues, Gospel, Old-Time, Appalachian, Sea Songs & Chanteys, Worksongs, Ballads, Railroad Songs, Prison Songs, Lullabies, Forebitters, Broadsides, Hymns, Vaudeville, Camp Songs, Farming, Mining & Factory Songs, Country, Bluegrass, Spirituals, Cowboy Songs, Songs of the British Isles, Labor & Union Songs, Drinking Songs, Children’s Songs, Field Hollers, Music Hall, Love Songs, Parodies, and more... We welcome singers and listeners! Also instruments and friends! Each Song Night, we have a loose theme to encourage people to learn new songs and remember ones they haven't sung in a while. Witty rationalizations are welcome. Harmonies and Songs with Choruses are especially appreciated!

Dec 21, 2025

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Andy’s Ramble Bluegrass Band

Doors @ 7pm, Show @ 7:30pm $20 adv / $25 DOS Andy Statman is universally recognized as one of the world’s foremost mandolin virtuoso’s! He began initially as a bluegrass performer and played in the iconic group, Breakfast Special, in his early years. A short time later his musical journey took him to the world of Klezmer music and he developed similar virtuosic facility on the clarinet. He has toured extensively all over the world in the past 35 years with his trio, playing Klezmer and Bluegrass music. He has recorded over a dozen albums. He recently was featured on the Grand Ole Opry and appears regularly with Itzhak Perlman. His website is www.andystatman.org, where a full description of his career accomplishments can be viewed. Gene Yellin , guitar, is a 40 year veteran of the New York bluegrass scene.Gene has played with Hazel Dickens, Breakfast Special (Kenny Kosek, Andy Statman, etc), Yellin Grass (with his bluegrass banjo playing brother, Bob), Eastbound Freight and American Flyer (with Ben Freed). He has recorded with Hazel Dickens and Gene Lowinger. He is critically recognized as one of the best bluegrass singers to come out of the New York area. Terry McGill , banjo, is one of the best known traditional banjo players in the Northeast having played and recorded with many ensembles over a 30 year period. He fronted his own band, “Straight Drive” for several years and their album of the same name received favorable airplay nationwide. He has been highlighted in Banjo Newsletter and has authored a book, “Alternate Tunings for Five-String Banjo” available from Mel Bay Publications. He has recorded two albums for Cabinwood Music. Greg Vongas , bass, has been a mainstay of the acoustic music scene in both New York and New Jersey for over 30 years! He has played with Peter Rowan, Tex Logan, Larry Sparks, and Tony Trischka among others and for many years he was a member of guitar virtuoso Orin Starr’s band. He plays an eclectic variety of music, but bluegrass is his main love!

Jan 19, 2026

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Ana Egge

8:30pm Doors, 9pm Show $20 adv / $25 DOS Ana Egge is a singer-songwriter and apprentice luthier from Brooklyn, NY. She has released 13 studio albums, playing her homemade guitar. Egge’s music has been praised by critics for its honesty, vulnerability, and beauty. She was born in Canada, and raised in North Dakota, & New Mexico and has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe. Lucinda Williams calls her “the folk Nina Simone.”

Feb 01, 2026

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Kathleen Parks

Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm $20 adv / $25 DOS Kathleen Parks is a fiddler, singer, and songwriter who brings joyful and creative energy to the stage and studio. For the last 10 years, she has been heavily involved in touring and recording with her Americana/Jamgrass band Twisted Pine, where she sings, writes, and fiddles. On her upcoming solo album, her captivating songs lean more toward Pop, Folk, and classic Jazz, while her virtuosic fiddle blends and reimagines traditional and modern musical styles with boundless groove and playful improvisational spirit. Her deep grounding in Celtic and American roots music combines with her love for pop songwriting, soulful vocals, and groove-based improvisation, making every KP performance unexpected yet familiar: a musical journey from beginning to end. Over the years, Parks has shared the stage with artists such as Paula Cole, Sammy Rae & The Friends, Gordon Lightfoot, Aoife O’Donovan, The Punch Brothers, Jerry Douglas, and Sierra Hull. Pre-Release Music: HERE Video: HERE

Feb 07, 2026

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Andy Statman & Michael Daves

Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm $25 adv / $30 DOS Andy Statman is one of his generation's most creative and influential mandolinists, having achieved legendary status for his unique melding of bluegrass, traditional Jewish music, and avant-garde jazz. "Bill Monroe and John Coltrane poured into one person. .. He plays all those just great crazy jazz kind of licks, but with the heart and fire of Bill Monroe ... I don't know anyone else that approaches the mandolin the way he does." -Ricky Skaggs, NPR "One of the greatest mandolinists of this - or any - era ... He thinks at the speed of light and can play whatever he thinks of. As an improviser, he is fearless, and his musical vocabulary has no limitations." -Chicago Tribune Grammy-nominated singer and guitarist Michael Daves was heralded as “a leading light of the New York bluegrass scene” by the New York Times. Daves has garnered attention for his work with Chris Thile, Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, and Bruce Molksy in addition to his solo performances.

Feb 09, 2026

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Sweethearts Country Dance with CRYS

7:30pm: Doors 8pm: Dance Lesson 8:30pm: Show $20 adv / $25 dos There was a woman, known simply as Miss Jim, who played guitar and drank whiskey deep in the hills. Her lyrics and musicality made her a legend in the countryside. Decades later, her great-granddaughter picked up an old guitar, and followed the calling of her roots. Playing Cosmic Country and Honky Tonk Music, CRYS draws from iconic influences like Patsy Cline, Curtis Mayfield, Elizabeth Cotten, and The Chicks. “Ethereal and groovy” songs centering on love, heartbreak, ancestral ties, and human connection are woven together by evocative songwriting and rich soulful vocals. Having shared festival bills with Grammy Award winning Allison Russell and Western Swing sensation Brennen Leigh, as well as stages with Juno Award winning Kaïa Kater, Yasmin Williams (NPR, New York Times), Kafari (Andre 3000), Julia Cannon (Rolling Stone), Olivia Ellen Lloyd (Holler.), and Marley Hale (Western AF), she connects to listeners - and the countryside of her heritage- by playing banjo and hollowbody guitar.

Feb 14, 2026

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Book Launch: Terence Degnan’s Echelon

Doors 7:30pm, Event 8pm Featuring special guest performers and readers and a musical performance by Feral Foster. Kurt Graves (host) is a pathfinder, mentor, wanderer, querior, friend and husband. His only published poems were in his high school creative writing publication. They were “Julia Frump” and “Beetles in Mass”. He loves and resides in beauty and suffering, largely because of his artist friends and artist wife. He loves the air of an all night hike at high elevation. He is a business coach and aims to be relentlessly helpful and a generator of fierce and open conversation. This is Terence Degnan ’s 5th book of poems. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. Zoë Ryder White ’s first full-length collection, The Visible Field, is forthcoming from River River Books in early 2026. A chapbook, Via Post, was a finalist for Tupelo Press’ Snowbound Chapbook award and won the Sixth Finch chapbook contest in 2022. HYPERSPACE was the editors’ choice pick for the Verse Tomaž Šalamun Prize in 2020 and is available from Factory Hollow Press. She co-authored A Study in Spring (Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2015) and Elsewhere (Sixth Finch Press, 2020) with Nicole Callihan. Her poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Iterant, Plume, and Threepenny Review, among others. A former elementary school teacher, she edits books for educators about the craft of teaching. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her family Denver Butson is an American poet who has published six books of poetry, has won numerous awards, and has had his work featured in the US on National Public Radio and the Library of Congress. His work in collaboration with visual artists, performing artists, and musicians has taken him to galleries, performance spaces, and stages across the US and Europe. A collection of his work with musicians, The Etcetera Variations, features some of the poetry he has performed with the likes of Mat Maneri, Marco Cappelli, Lucian Ban, Brandon Lopez, and Marc Ribot. In 2024, he was a featured poet at PEN Georgia’s 9th Annual Tbilisi International Festival of Literature. National Award winning novelist Colum McCann says that Butson’s poems “knock our comfortable balance all to hell, and then help stitch our imaginations back together again.” He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter. Gabe Johnson is a lifelong educator, musician, and steward of the land. He has served as a school director and English teacher at Odyssey School for several years, fostering a passion for learning and community. A dedicated musician, Gabe has written, recorded, and performed music in various bands since high school. In recent years, Gabe founded Tater Knob Farm , a small, no-till farm committed to growing nutrient-dense vegetables using regenerative practices that support soil health, biodiversity, and carbon capture. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife, Kate, and their two sons.

Feb 23, 2026

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The Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies

Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm Described by the international press as a “shamanic orchestra of the technological age” and “a living museum of sound” the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies recovers and brings to artistic life hundreds of forgotten indigenous musical instruments. The Orchestra will present the show “Hidden Sounds of the Americas”, an audiovisual journey through the sound geography from Alaska to Patagonia featuring traditional music and contemporary compositions. Through a scenic and audiovisual display the Orchestra unites ancestral sounds with electronic technologies as well as Native dances and masks of the Americas. The concert will feature replicas of unknown pre-Columbian instruments recovered by the Orchestra from archaeological Museums as well as from indigenous communities in the Amazonas, the Andes and Mesoamerica. This program is made possible in part through the Mid Atlantic Tours program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Ibermúsicas.

Apr 15, 2026

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The 11th Annual Brooklyn World Wide (Friday Ticket)

LINE UP TBD! This program was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York City Department of Transportation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, Falconworks Theater Company, and Von Trapp Brewery.

Jun 05, 2026

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The 11th Annual Brooklyn World Wide (Saturday Ticket)

LINE UP TBD! This program was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York City Department of Transportation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, Falconworks Theater Company, and Von Trapp Brewery.

Jun 06, 2026