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First held in 2009, the Brooklyn Folk Festival is an annual three day music festival created by Down Home Radio. It is held at The Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn, New York. The festival features the musical styles of folk, jazz, and blues. During the festival workshops are also held teaching different folk instruments. Most bands that play at the festival are smaller local bands. On the last day of the festival a square dance is always held at the park near The Jalopy Theater.

History
The Brooklyn Folk Festival is produced by Down Home Radio, a local radio station who also has a live show every second Saturday on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Down Home Radio was created in 2006 and now hosted by Eli Smith. Eli Smith is a New York local who pays in the band The Dust Busters. Down Home Radio also won an award from The Village Voice. A few years before the Brooklyn Folk Festival had been created it is said a new movement in music had begun up in New York. Soon a weekly show consisting of the folk, blues, and jazz genres began called Roots & Ruckus. The ring leader of these musicians Feral Foster began meeting people more and more artists who played music that appealed to the show. The Feral met up with the lead of The Dust Busters, Eli Smith. They relocated the weekly showing to The Jalopy Theater. The Jalopy Theater became a center to the folk community. This is how Eli Smith came up with the idea to do an annual festival at The Jalopy Theater. Eli Smith based his Brooklyn Folk Festival after the Newport Folk Festival in its 60's.

Notable Guest
The Holy Modal Rounders, New Lost City Ramblers

Accolades
“Keep on! The people who listen to you really depend on you.” – Pete Seeger

“Down Home Radio offers innovative coverage you won’t find anywhere else. An excellent program.” - Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!