Banjo Roots Festival in Brooklyn this weekend

[Brian Welch]

Just noticed this on another site. Greg must be busy, or else I think he would have mentioned it by now. Almost makes me wish I lived in NYC. Sunday lineup looks great.

Please join us in Brooklyn at Jalopy for our
three-day Banjo Roots Festival: Celebrating 274 Years of the Banjo in
the Big Apple, 1736 - 2010.

Friday, January 8 Admission: $10
8:00 Pat Conte
9:00 Emma Graves
10:00 Cynthia Sayer Duo
11:00 Dust Busters

Saturday, January 9
Admission: Concert (8-10 pm): $10; Square Dance Party: $10; For both: $15
8:00 Gil Sayre
9:00 Allison Williams with Colin Gallihue, Jason Cypher, and joebass
10:00 Old-Time Southern Square Dance Party with Allison Williams, Colin Gallihue, Jason Cypher, and joebass

Sunday, January 10
Afternoon Workshops (1:00 - 6:00 pm: $10; w/ evening concert: $15)
1:00 - 2:30 pm: Panel Discussion, The Banjo in the Big Apple, 1736 -1940 Shlomo Pestcoe, 1736-1840; Bob Winans, 1840-1900; and Peter Kohman, 1900-1940

3:00 - 4:00 pm: Nineteenth-Century Banjo Playing Styles: 'Stroke-Style' Down-Picking & 'Classic' Finger-Style Up-Picking Greg C. Adams and Bob Winans

4:30 - 6:00 pm: Banjo Roots: The Banjo's Afro-Creole Origins and West African Heritage Shlomo Pestcoe and Greg C. Adams Evening ($10; w/ afternoon workshops: $15))

7:00 Shlomo Pestcoe
8:00 Bob Winans
9:00 Greg C. Adams
10:00 Sana "Mr. Ekonting" Ndiaye


For more information, please visit http://www.jalopy.biz/

[razyn]

If you go to that Jalopy website, the additional info is not at all obvious. You have to click for "Classes" (the A in JALOPY), then there's a sort of blackboard on which you have to click the line for Workshops. There actually is additional info, there.

But otherwise, it just appears from their more accessible calendar that the place is Closed this weekend.

[Greg Adams]

Hello everyone,

Yes I am quite busy even while on winter break. Thanks, Brian, for posting the information. You have to click on the link that says "Upcoming Shows" (http://www.jalopy.biz/performance.php) in order to find more specific information about the event. If anyone is going to be in Brooklyn over the weekend, it'd be great to see you.

Talk to you soon,
Greg