For Immediate Release:

Down Home Radio Show and The Jalopy Theatre Presents:

THE BROOKLYN FOLK FESTIVAL ARRIVES DOWNTOWN WITH OV

ER 30 MUSICIANS OF VARIOUS STYLES FROM

ACROSS THE WORLD

Date: May 18 – 20, 2012

Tickets: $20 per day or $45 weekend pass

Location: 345 Jay Street between Metrotech and Willoughby

Brooklyn, NY (April 4, 2012) – This year, the founders of the Brooklyn Folk Festival will transform 27,000sqft of raw space in Downtown Brooklyn into a music wonderland in order to showcase the musical talents of renowned Americana singers, to local and national folk bands, to musicians from around the world. Legendary singer, musician and folklorist Alice Gerrard, formerly of Hazel and Alice (with Hazel Dickens) will be performing as well as Brett Ratliff, banjo player and ballad singer of Eastern Kentucky, Michael Daves the well known bluegrass singer will perform, and Bodoma debuts their traditional Afro-Caribbean Garifuna music from Honduras. The festival opens Friday, May 18^th with a special tribute to Brooklyn’s own Woody Guthrie who would have turned 100 this year.

Music at the Folk Festival will range from Appalachian folk and string-band music, to hot jazz, Americana, jug bands, blues and klezmer, as well as traditional music from Mexico, the Carribean, the Balkans and more. The festival costs $20 per day or $45 for the three-day pass. Tickets include access to all instrumental workshops, film screenings, events and the Sunday afternoon square dance. Locally brewed beer, wine and food will be available for purchase.

“We are so excited about this year’s festival, which will have more entertainment, events, and music for all,” says Eli Smith of Down Home Radio Show. “Being at the epi-center of Downtown Brooklyn, everyone will be able to get there easily, and anyone who likes music will definitely want to make it.”

Performances will include: Michael Daves, Alice Gerrard, Peter Stampfel and the Ether Frolic Mob, Dennis Lichtman’s Brain Cloud, Pat Conte and Joe Belullavich, The Whiskey Spitters, Feral Foster, Little Brothers, Litvakus, Bodoma, Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues, Willy Gantrim, M. Shanghai String Band, and Wretched Refuse Stringband, just to name a few.

Additional events include fun competitions and musical prizes such as the new “Banjo-Toss competition” where contestants compete by tossing a banjo on a rope onto a hook, the winner takes home a new banjo! Also this year inaugurates the “Battle of the Harmonicas” where harmonica playing contestants compete in a series of categories judged by the audience and a panel of judges to become the harmonica king of Brooklyn (and take home special prizes)!

For tickets and more information, please visit: www.BrooklynFolkFest.com, www.jalopy.biz, or www.downhomeradioshow.com

For updates & photos, please follow the festival on Facebook.com/BrooklynFolkFest and Twitter @BklynFolkFest

About The Fabulous Jalopy Theater:

For five years, the flourishing New York City folk music scene has found a home at The Jalopy Theatre, a recently expanded venue with a performance hall, tavern, instrument store and folk music school. The best of the city’s young musical talent can be seen at its regular Wednesday Roots & Ruckus free show. 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-395-3214, www.jalopy.biz.

About Down Home Radio Show:

Down Home Radio is a hardcore, unreconstructed, paleo-acoustic folk music program hosted by Eli Smith, organizer of the Brooklyn Folk Festival. Listen to five years of interviews posted in the archive at: www.downhomeradioshow.com

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