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Catch them now before they play Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Late Night TV! Many festival venue artists on the rise include: 

Allison Russell, Rachel Price (Lake St Dive), Green Sky Bluegrass, Aaron Frazer (Durand Jones), Kyshona, Caleb Caudle, Gill Landry (Old Crow Medicine Show), Brennen Leigh, Melissa Carper, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Hello Mary, Nora Brown, Luke Winslowe King, Willi Carlisle.

Click here to watch Festival Highlights 2022 

Click here to see Festival Rising Stars 2015 – today

June 22 – 25, 2023 Brooklyn Bridge Park, Jalopy Theatre, Sunny’s Red Hook and Superfine.

Sept 29 – Oct 1, 2023 Dumbo Archway, Jalopy Theatre 68 Jay St. Bar and Superfine.

Sabine McCalla
The Ladles
Tiger Alley
Alexa Barchini
Queen Esther
Olivia Ellen Lloyd
Danni Nicholls
Erica Mancini
KJ Denhert
Lizzie Edwards
Neha
Hilary Hawke
Lisa Liu
Aurora Nealand
Saudia Young
Crys Matthews
Charlie Burnham
Megan Palmer
The Loyales
M Shanghai String Band
Tone’s Legendary Bluegrass Jam
Jackson Lynch
Hyuna Park
Smokey Hormel
Samoa Wilson
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Tank Tops – modeled by Dani

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Top Ten Lists:

10 Amazing Summer things to do in Dumbo and Brooklyn Bridge Park

MOST BROOKLYN-ESQUE  

Kings of Americana! Bands to watch in DUMBO and Red Hook

Significant music festival grows in Dumbo and Red Hook – Red Hook Star Revue

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,

Spiritual successor: Americana jamboree is rooted in the old Dumbo Art Festival New York Post, Sunday Special

Spotlight Interview with Jan Bell, Festival Founder – Realty Collective NYC

Folk music is alive and well in Brooklyn. A number of venues and musicians are committed to keeping traditional music—including folk, Americana, bluegrass, old time, and country music—on stage. 

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Biggest and best yet! Leaves Waterfront Wanting More – ‘Brooklyn Life’ DumboNYC

Variety and authenticity highlight Americana Festival – Brooklyn Roads

Superfine Bluegrass Brunch – The Best Live Music Brunch Spots in Brooklyn

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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.

Enjoyed by 41K Viewers around the world:

In 2021, and 2022 Brooklyn Americana Music curated ‘Americana in the Archway’ in partnership with Dumbo BID as part of ‘Daily Dose of Dumbo’ 7000 Square foot cobblestone plaza beneath the Manhattan Bridge as an activated community space.

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 went onto be known as the Dumbo Arts Festival (DAF) folding in 2014. DAF comprised over 100 open studio’s. 

At that time, twenty two years ago, Dumbo was home to around four hundred artists paying on average $1 / 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 me the thumbs up to forge ahead with keeping the music going in its stead. Thanks to Brooklyn Arts Council we are supported by the Brooklyn Arts Fund and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. 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 / she / her / they stages on Pier 6.

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, Founder BKAMF

Dumbo, Brooklyn September 2022

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!

DUMBO Oral History Project with festival founder Jan Bell

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We acknowledge the unceded territory where we gather as the traditional land of the Lenape Peoples, The Nayack and The Canarsee with gratitude for the land itself, and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations

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Shout outs from the stage  & Invitation Only events year round in Dumbo and Red Hook for you & friends and family.

The 9th Annual Brooklyn Americana Music Festival is supported by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA).

The 9th Annual Brooklyn Americana Music Festival is made possible by funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Both city and state grants are administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

The Festival is made possible in part by the office of Councilman Lincoln Restler, administered by Dumbo BID.

Thank you so much!