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September 17-18
The 7th Annual Park Slope Bluegrass & Old-Time Jamboree

A day and a half of workshops, jamming and concerts of traditional American music. Click here for details.

• Friday, September 17, 8pm
  James Reams & The Barnstormers
  So, there are still people who still think that authentic bluegrass music can't be made in New York City? Clearly, they haven’t heard James Reams & The Barnstormers. With critically acclaimed albums (the last one was nominated by the International Bluegrass Music Association as a Recorded Event of the Year, and they've been consistently included on DJ "Hot Picks" lists), a touring schedule that runs from Maine to South Carolina to James's home state of Kentucky to Michigan, and a growing dossier of magazine and newspaper articles about them, including feature articles in the two major bluegrass magazines, this is bluegrass music the way it should be played and the way you have to hear it.
   
• September 18, 12:30-10pm
  Workshops, Jam Sessions, and Showcases
  The only event of its kind in the Northeast, this is the place to play and hear the best in old-time and bluegrass music. Workshops (harmony singing, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, banjo and more) start at 12:30, jamming goes on all day, evening showcase concerts start at 6pm – all for $3 (yup, three dollars). Bring your acoustic instrument (guitar, mandolin, fiddle, stand-up bass, banjo or Dobro) (or if you don't play an instrument, bring your ears), bring your love of American traditional music, bring your kids, bring your friends. If you haven't ever heard the ring of a banjo and the chop of a mandolin echoing through the hills and hollers of Park Slope, then you've missed one of this city's delightful incongruities.

 

September 24 - Closed for Yom Kippur

 

October 1 - Traveling Troubador Series ($15)

Blues great Paul Geremia hails from Rhode Island, but for the past 38 years he has been on the road full-time, thrilling audiences with his virtuoso acoustic blues guitar playing and passionate singing. He is equally impressive on six- and twelve-string guitar and is one of the world's great rack harmonica players. Come see why he's been called a "national treasure."

 

October 8 - Closed for Columbus Day

 

October 15 - Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop

Jose Conde creates fresh Cuban-roots music to soothe a palate hungry for sensuous rhythms. Along with his band, Ola Fresca, Conde will play music to dance to. A salsa lesson will start the first set.

 

October 22 - Traveling Troubador Series ($15)

A Colorado native, Corey Harris is one of the nation's most exciting and authentic acoustic blues performers. His impassioned Delta-style bottleneck playing and singing is augmented by explorations into African and African-American musical idioms.

 

October 29 - The Crooked Jades

The Crooked Jades are on a mission to reinvent old-time music and revive the days before commercial radio with their soulful sound -- brilliant arrangements of obscure old tunes mixed with beautiful original compositions played on an eclectic array of vintage instruments. West Coast pickers with equal parts attitude and respect, they are unlike any other old-time band, performing rowdy dance tunes and haunting ballads with thrilling energy that has audiences on their feet dancing and critics comparing them to everyone from the New Lost City Ramblers and The Pogues to Gillian Welch and The Handsome Family.

 

November 5 - Guitar Master Ernie Hawkins

Ernie Hawkins, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a master of Piedmont and Texas style acoustic blues and ragtime guitar. He studied extensively with legendary bluesman Rev. Gary Davis and is one of the few people in the world who can play Davis's complex compositions with an authority that rivals Davis himself. This project is partially supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by the Vira I. Heinz Endowment; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennylvania Council on the Arts; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

 

November 6 - Ernie Hawkins Guitar Workshop ($65)

Ernie will teach a workshop on Piedmont and Texas blues styles Sat. from 11:30am to 2:30pm. Price is $65. A great opportunity for guitar players to learn from a genuine master. Those interested in signing up, email Ian Zack.

 

November 12 - Appalachian and Roots Guitar Music

Outstanding fiddler Bill Christophersen and singer-guitarist Gil Sayre offer a rousing set of Appalachian music. John Leal has a long history of performances that have earned him admirers of his roots guitar styles.

 

November 19 - Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop

Pianist/composer Roberta Piket leads an amalgam of Coop members performing arrangements by band members, including Andrew Rathbun on saxophones, Matt Pavolka on bass and Billy Mintz on drums.

 

November 26 - Closed for Thanksgiving

 

December 3 - Bruce Markow, Jim Roi, Earl Cantos

Singer/multi-instrumentalist Bruce Markow brings passion, playfulness and well-seasoned craftsmanship to his eclectic songwriting, with stirring melodies, engaging stories and colorful lyrics that linger with you long after evening's end.
Jim Roi and Earl Cantos have been playing together for several years. Their brand of roots ballads and soulful blues, blends voice, harmonica, and guitar into a style that is simple, heartfelt and down home.

 

December 10 - Acoustic Music In the Round

An evening of acoustic music in the round, with singer/songwriters Bev Grant and Joe Jencks swapping songs for two sets of heartfelt and meaningful music. Bev has spent the past four decades performing socially conscious music full of deftly told stories and inspirational themes. Joe Jencks has a warm, smooth, powerful voice and memorable, finely crafted songs that move between the worlds of contemporary acoustic pop and traditional folk.

 

December 17 - Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop

Chandra Oppenheim's Chandraplexi is a tasty concoction of toy piano, melodica, mellow drums, bass and a really hot mustang competition fender guitar. Sweetly sung, eerie lyrics complete the mix.
Christiana Drapkin celebrates the release of her new CD, Songs About You, featuring jazz standards, be-bop lines, and several original tunes by her long-time teacher and collaborator, Park Slope pianist Charles Sibirsky.

 

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