Down Home Radio Show and The Fabulous Jalopy Theatre announce the 4th Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival taking place Friday, May 18th through Sunday, May 20th in Brooklyn, NY. The 3-day festival includes 30+ bands, vocal and instrumental workshops, a family-friendly square dance, film screenings and as well as the return (in a new form) of the much loved “Banjo Toss” competition of 2011!

The Brooklyn Folk Festival will feature the best in old-time string-band music, folk, blues, song writers, bluegrass, Klezmer, Caribbean and Balkan folk music, songwriters and much more!

This year the festival will be held in Downtown Brooklyn at 345 Jay Street, between Metrotech and Willoughby streets. It is easily accessible from the A,C,F,R,2,3,4,5 & G trains.

Click here to invite your friends to the festival on our Facebook event page!

See the festival lineup here!

Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton performs at the Brooklyn Folk Festival last year. Courtesy of North Carolina banjo player Clifton Hicks, who also performed in 2011.

Clifton Hicks warms up backstage at the 2010 Brooklyn Folk Festival. Film produced by ChiProductions.