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If you hear twangs of mandolin or fiddle wafting across the East River, it’s not carrying up the coast from Nashville — it’s the Brooklyn Americana Music Festival, taking place on several stages in Dumbo. Critics Choice, 
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Schedule
9th Brooklyn Americana Music Festival
June 23 – 25, 2023
Thurs. June 22
Sunny’s Bar – Kick Off Party
8pm Tiger Alley
Fri June 23
Jalopy Theatre – Opening Night
8pm Crys Matthews, B.E. Farrow, Justin Golden
Tiger Alley, Jan Bell
Sunny’s Bar
8pm Alex McMurray
Sat. June 24
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 6
Flower Gardens
2pm- 5pm Tone’s Bluegrass Jam Session
Buskers Stage by Pier 6 Promenade
3pm Albanie Falletta & Justin Golden
3:45 The Ukuladies
4:15pm Rainbow Parade feat. Bobby Blue
Liberty Lawn Stage
MC Bobby Blue
4:30pm B.E. Farrow
5pm Danni Nicholls
5:45pm KJ Denhert
6:30pm Taylor Plas & Rashad Brown
7:15pm Saudia Young
8pm Crys Matthews
8:40pm Feral Foster
9:20pm Tiger Alley
Sun June 25
Superfine, Dumbo
11:30am – M Shanghai String band
2:00pm Tiger Alley
68 Jay St Bar
5:00pm Olivia Ellen Lloyd
6:30pm Alex Battles
History
Festival Highlights 2022
Festival Rising Stars
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In 2020, sixty three concerts live streamed and pre-recorded from lock down and quarantine in NYC, eleven states, and seven countries.
41K Viewers around the world enjoyed the following artists:
2023 Brooklyn Americana Music returns for a third year to co-curate Live at the Archway following ‘Americana in the Archway’ in partnership with Dumbo BID as part of ‘Daily Dose of Dumbo’ 2022.
Brooklyns largest covered outdoor space – 7000 Square foot cobblestone plaza beneath the Manhattan Bridge. Free and for all ages.
Watch this space for Live at The Archway season announcement 2023!
Back in the year 2000 I was producing weekly live music events with pioneer establishment Superfine, when Joy Glidden Director of Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) asked me to curate a live music stage loading dock at the annual ‘art under the bridge festival.’ I had already founded a collective for Folk Alliance International Conferences called ‘Little Red Hen Music’, and kept the name for the festival stage.
Brooklyn Americana Music Festival was founded in the wake of what was known as the Dumbo Arts Festival (DAF). DAF comprised over 100 open studio’s. Art in Dumbo new champions this annual Open Studio Celebration every April.
At that time, twenty two years ago, Dumbo was home to around four hundred artists paying on average $1 – $10 / sq. foot for high ceiling lofts with sweeping views of the East River, the Manhattan Bridge, and the Brooklyn Bridge.
My live music stages were in old abandoned loading docks, the then roofless shell of the tobacco warehouse, industrial era warehouse lofts, water tower roof tops and down under the cotton wood tree near where Jane’s Carousel stands today.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams, then Brooklyn Borough President appealed to the community to save the annual event, and gave Brooklyn Americana Music the thumbs up to forge ahead with keeping the live music aspect music going.
Thanks to Brooklyn Arts Council we are supported by the Brooklyn Arts Fund, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs as well as New York State Council on the Arts.
The 7000′ square foot cobblestone Archway under the Manhattan Bridge is a main stage thanks to Dumbo BID, who administer discretionary funding from the Office of Councilman Lincoln Restler.
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy support our women led LGBTQ stages on Pier 6, in tandem with Pride NYC celebrations across the city.
Brooklyn Americana music partners with artist owned and operated festival venues year round. We curate live music at Superfine, 68 Jay St Bar, Sunny’s Red Hook and special events at Jalopy Theatre.
– Jan Bell, Dumbo Brooklyn 2023.
Click here to see the brilliant history of the Dumbo Archway!
Americana in the Archway September 3rd – ‘Downtown’ Rashad Brown
More Online fun took place at ‘Unlocked’ Folk Alliance International. More on our Youtube Channel!
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