Compiled by Michael Kornfeld

Detailed listings for more than 100 concerts, open mics and jam sessions slated for January through the first week of February 2009 in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties appear in this installment of AcousticMusicScene.com’s Long Island AcoustiCalendar.

Thursday, 1/1

Buddy Merriam & Back Roads, LI bluegrass stalwarts, help kick-off the New Year at the Checkmate Inn, North Country Road, Setauket. 9:30 p.m.

Friday, 1/2

First Friday Bluegrass Night at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 9 p.m.

Island Songwriters Showcase (ISS) Open Mic at Border’s Café, Jericho Turnpike (Route 25), Syosset. 8 p.m. Those wishing to perform must sign-up with Vinny Crici at 7:30 p.m. (www.islandsongwriters.org).

Open Mic Night at the Custer Institute, hosted by singer-songwriter Liza Coppola, 1115 Main Bayview Road, Southold. (www.custerobservatory.org). 631-765-2626. 7-10 p.m. Admission is free, although donations are appreciated.

PeaceSmiths Topical, A-Typical, Folk Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse features Ryan Mack, George Mann and an open mic, First United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway/Route 110 (southernmost end near Merrick Road/Montauk Highway), Amityville. 8 p.m. (www.peacesmiths.org). 631-798-0778. $7 suggested donation.

Rhythm Kings Acoustic Duo, Popei’s, 451 Middle Country Road, Coram. 9 p.m.-midnight.

Saturday, 1/3

Folk Music Society of Huntington Annual Members Showcase features (in order of appearance) John Taylor, Lora Kendall, Todd Evans, Claude Margouleff, Sonny Meadows, Lois Morton, Scott Mac, Grand Folk Railroad (Mike Christian and Susan Cohen), Ken Bongort and Bob Westcott. Congregational Church of Huntington, 30 Washington Drive (just off Route 25A) in Centerport. 7:30 p.m. No open mic tonight. (www.fmshny.org). 631-425-2925. $15 in advance; $17 at the door; $12 for FMSH members. Tickets available in advance via Brown Paper Tickets.

Saturday Night Jam, Sunny’s, 253 Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.

Sunday, 1/4

Miller’s Crossing, bluegrass band, Fadeley’s Deli Pub, 440 West Main Street, Patchogue. 631-758-8882. 10 p.m. $5 cover.

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Rhythm Kings Acoustic Duo, The Bench, 1095 Route 25A, Stony Brook. 8-11 p.m.

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarists plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 1/5

Country Blues Jam at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. No cover.

Tuesday, 1/6

Buddy Merriam & Back Roads, LI bluegrass stalwarts, Checkmate Inn, North Country Road, Setauket. 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, 1/7

Acoustic Long Island features singer-songwriter Zach Hurd and alternative acoustic band Return to the Dream (comprised of Tom Griffith, Martha Trachtenberg, Diane Garisto and Andy Huenerberg), Deepwells Mansion, Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection), St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.

Folk Open Sing, sponsored by the Good Coffeehouse and the Pinewoods –Folk Music Society of New York, Ethical Cultural Society building (basement), 53 Prospect Park West (near 2nd Street), Brooklyn. For information, call Alison Kelley, 718-636-6341.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Life Café, 983 Flushing Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. – Midnight.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 9:30 p.m.

“WoodSongs at the Movies” features a 45-minute live performance by Ken Korb, followed by an hour-long screening of Michael Johnathon’s “WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour with featured artists Rhonda Vincent and The Rage. Clearview’s Babylon Cinemas, 34 Main Street (west of Deer Park Avenue), Babylon. 7:30 p.m. $12. Two- for-one tickets are available for Optimum Rewards customers and Folk Music Society of Huntington members who show their card.

Thursday, 1/8

Strings n’ Things Open Mic Night, presented by the Smithtown Township Arts Council, at the, Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, Smithtown. (www.stacarts.org). 631-862-6575. 8-9:30 p.m. Sign-up begins at 7:15 p.m. Free.

The Wiyos, Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9 p.m. $12 cover.

Friday, 1/9

Anthony da Costa and Phil Minissale share a bill at The Garden Stage. Da Costa is a prolific 17 year-old singer-songwriter and self-taught multi-instrumentalist, who was a winner in the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Competition and was voted as the emerging artist “most wanted” to return to the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival last year. Minissale, the finger-pickin’ good Long Island Blues Boy, is now 21 and stepping up his touring in support his recently released debut album. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau, 223 Stewart Avenue (corner of Nassau Boulevard), Garden City. 8 p.m. $15 in advance; $17 at the door. For advance tickets and information, contact calendar@uuccn.org.

Ernie Hawkins, Piedmont- and Texas-style blues and ragtime guitarist, plays at The Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn. 8 p.m. (www.gchmusic.org). 718-768-2972. $15; $6 for children.

Local artists Hank Stone, Becca Hasselbrook and Patrick O’Rourke share a bill for the Grounds and Sounds Café at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 380 Nichols Road (just north of Route 347), Stony Brook. (www.groundsandsounds.uufsb.org). 8 p.m. $10.

Open Mic Night, sponsored by Canvas Magazine and hosted by talented singer-songwriter and percussive fingerstyle guitarist Joe Iadanza, features music and poetry, 51 Gibson Avenue, Huntington. 7-9:30 p.m. $5 cover includes refreshments.

Second Annual Tribute to John Hartford, with The Steam-Powered Water Taxi Boys, Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9 p.m. $10 cover.

Saturday, 1/10

Johnny Cuomo, LI-based singer-songwriter, performs at the Custer Institute, 1115 Main Bayview Road, Southold. (www.custerobservatory.org). 631-765-2626. 8-9 p.m.

The Folk-Groovin’ Café, St. Lawrence of Canterbury Church, 655 Old Country Road, Dix Hills. 8 p.m. $7.

Christine Lavin, a very witty and entertaining New York-based singer-songwriter, performs as part of the First Acoustics concert series at First Unitarian Congregational Society, 50 Monroe Place, Brooklyn. (www.tacoustics.org). 718-288-5994.

Saturday Night Jam, Sunny’s, 253 Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.

Jay Scott (singer-songwriter, whose new album, Homegrown, meshes folk, rock, blues, country and jazz), and the Usual Suspects (a group of local performers), share a bill at The Eclectic Café, Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk, 28 Brentwood Road, Bay Shore. (www.eclecticcafe.org). 631-661-1278. 8:30 p.m., preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m. $10; $8 for members.

Sunday, 1/11

Folk Jam & Sing-Along sponsored by the Folk Music Society of Huntington, a monthly
gathering for mostly amateur musicians and those who love to sing, during which
everyone joins in on songs primarily from the book “Rise Up Singing,” Huntington
Public Library, 338 Main Street, Huntington. 1-4:30 p.m. Free.

Genticorum, Quebecois folk trio, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park
Slope, Brooklyn. 7 p.m.

Homegrown String Band (Inspired by the rural string bands of the early 20th century, Long Island’s Jackofsky family has been performing traditional and neo-traditional acoustic American roots music and lively originals together for more than a decade), Bryant Library, 2 Paper Mill Road, Roslyn. 516-621-2240. 2 p.m. Free.

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Sing Back the Sun: Pub Sing, co-sponsored by New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club and Slope Food Coop, Freddy’s Back Room, 485 Dean Street (at Sixth Avenue, one block east of Flatbush Avenue), Brooklyn. 718-622035. 7-10 p.m.

Sunday Street Acoustic Series at the University Café pairs genre-spanning, New England-based guitarist Brooks Williams and Philadelphia-based father and son acoustic blues and roots duo Beaucoup Blue, Stony Brook Union building, Stony Brook University. 2 p.m. (www.universitycafe.org). 631-632-1093. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door (if available).

Toby Walker, masterful fingerstyle guitarist plays the blues, East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front Street, East Meadow. (516) 794-2570, 2 p.m. Free.

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarists plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 1/12

Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange in-the-round featuring Rebecca Pronsky (host), Brooke Campbell, Lucy Wainwright Roche and Stephen Claire, at Union Hall, 702 Union Street at 5th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn. Free.

Country Blues Jam at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. No cover.

Tuesday, 1/13

Stuart Markus, LI-based singer-songwriter and member of the folk harmony trio Gathering Time, performs solo at Rachel’s Waterside Grill, 281 Woodcleft Avenue, Freeport. 516-546-0050. 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, 1/14

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Life Café, 983 Flushing Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. – Midnight.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 7 p.m.

Partial Capo Workshop conducted by Gary Schoenberger for the Long Island Fingerstyle Guitar Club (features a video screening and one-on-one instruction), Westbury Friends Meeting House, 550 Post Avenue, Westbury. (www.lifgc.com) 516-361-5122. 8-10 p.m. $10 suggested donation; free for club members.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 9:30 p.m.

“WoodSongs at the Movies” features a 45-minute live performance by a local husband and wife duo Princess Peapod, followed by an hour-long screening of Michael Johnathon’s “WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour with featured artist Dar Williams. Clearview’s Babylon Cinemas, 34 Main Street (west of Deer Park Avenue), Babylon. 7:30 p.m. $12. Two- for-one tickets are available for Optimum Rewards customers and Folk Music Society of Huntington members who show their member cards.

Thursday, 1/15

Kings County Opry, Freddy’s Back Room, Dean Street and Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn. 718-622-7035. 9 p.m. – midnight.

Cathy Kreger, LI-based singer-songwriter, who also is part of the new trio Lucky 13, performs solo at Hudson’s Mill Restaurant, 5599 Merrick Road, Massapequa. 7:30-10:30 p.m.

Kevin Smith performs traditional and contemporary Irish music at Irish Cottage Restaurant & Pub, 108-07 72nd Avenue, Forest Hills, Queens.

Strings n’ Things Open Mic Night, presented by the Smithtown Township Arts Council, at the, Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, Smithtown. (www.stacarts.org). 631-862-6575. 8-9:30 p.m. Sign-up begins at 7:15 p.m. Free.

Friday, 1/16

Bill Staines, the traveling troubadour and constant crowd pleaser, makes his annual foray to the Our Times Coffeehouse at the Ethical Humanist Society building, 38 Old Country Road, Garden City. (www.ourtimescoffeehouse.org). 8 p.m. $15.

Saturday, 1/17

Jonathan “Sunshine” Edwards, plays the Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore. (www.boultoncenter.org). 631-969-1101. 8 p.m. $30; $25 for members.

Folk Music Society of Huntington’s Hard Luck Café series features its annual open mic night at the Congregational Church of Huntington, 30 Washington Drive (just off Route 25A) in Centerport. 7:30 p.m. (www.fmshny.org). 631-425-2925. $10; $7 for members.

Sierra Hull and Highway 111, bluegrass outfit fronted by up-and-coming 17-year old singer and mandolin player, Shelter Island School auditorium, Shelter Island.

Saturday Night Jam, Sunny’s, 253 Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.

Jay Scott (singer-songwriter, whose new album, Homegrown, meshes folk, rock, blues, country and jazz) annual birthday performance at Bobbique, 70 West Main Street, Patchogue.

Sunday, 1/18

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Sunday Street Acoustic Series at the University Café features singer-songwriter Ellis Paul, with special guest LI’s own Jack’s Waterfall, whose music fuses jazz, blues, folk, pop and global rhythms, Stony Brook Union building, Stony Brook University. 2 p.m. (www.universitycafe.org). 631-632-1093. Tickets are $22 in advance; $27 at the door (if available).

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarists plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 1/19

Country Blues Jam at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. No cover.

Wednesday, 1/21

Erin McKeown and Chris Pureka, a couple of talented female singer-songwriters on a co-bill at Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn. 718-230-0236. 9 p.m. $12.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Life Café, 983 Flushing Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. – Midnight.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 9:30 p.m.

“WoodSongs at the Movies” features a 45-minute live performance by Bill Lauter, followed by an hour-long screening of Michael Johnathon’s “WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour with featured artist John McCutcheon. Clearview’s Babylon Cinemas, 34 Main Street (west of Deer Park Avenue), Babylon. 7:30 p.m. $12. Two- for-one tickets are available for Optimum Rewards customers and Folk Music Society of Huntington members who show their card.

Thursday, 1/22

Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts perform a lively, raucous blend of jug band, old-time, tin pan alley, early jazz and blues music at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 8
p.m.

Rodney Crowell, country crooner, graces the stage at the Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore. (www.boultoncenter.org). 631-969-1101. 8 p.m. $35; $30 for members.

Kevin Smith performs traditional and contemporary Irish music at Irish Cottage Restaurant & Pub, 108-07 72nd Avenue, Forest Hills, Queens.

Strings n’ Things Acoustic Open Mic Night, presented by the Smithtown Township Arts Council, at the, Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, Smithtown. 631-862-6575. 8-9:30 p.m. Sign-up begins at 7:15 p.m. Free.

Friday, 1/23

Homegrown String Band (Inspired by the rural string bands of the early 20th century, Long Island’s Jackofsky family has been performing traditional and neo-traditional acoustic American roots music and lively originals together for more than a decade), at The Grey Horse Tavern, 291 Bayport Avenue, Bayport. 631-472-1863. 9 p.m.

Mutatas, trio mixes Brazilian rhythms and American folk and bluegrass music, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 8 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Railroad Earth, rootsy jam band, plays the Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore. (www.boultoncenter.org). 631-969-1101. 8 p.m. $35; $30 for members.

Saturday, 1/24

Steve Earle and Allison Moorer, husband and wife singer-songwriters share a bill for The Landmark on Main Street, Jeanne Rimsky Theater, 232 Main Street, Port Washington. (www.landmarkonmainstreet.org). 516-767-6444. 8 p.m. $50-$55.

Patchogue Winter Arts Festival, benefiting the Patchogue Theatre’s Live in the Lobby series and the Patchogue Arts Council, features acoustic performances by Johnny Cuomo, Caroline Doctorow, Jessie Haynes, Jordan Hope, Johnnie Lee Jordan, Rorie Kelly, Dave March, Nina Romano Group, Jay Scott, and Chris Van Cott and the Vagabonds, along with several electric performances and poetry readings. (www.patchoguetheatre.com. 7:30 p.m. $10-$35.

Guitarist Howard Emerson and alternative acoustic band Return to the Dream (featuring Martha Trachtenberg, Tom Griffith, Diane Garisto and Andy Huenerberg) perform at the South Huntington Public Library, 145 Pigeon Hill Road, Huntington Station. 631-549-4411. 7 p.m. Free.

Saturday Night Jam, Sunny’s, 253 Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.

Cheryl Wheeler, a singer-songwriter who can be both poignant and insightfully witty, performs for the Last Licks Café at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington Browns Road, Huntington. (www.lastlickscafe.org). 8:30 p.m. concert is preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m. $25; $23 for seniors and students. Advance tickets available at brownpapertickets.com.

Sunday, 1/25

Bennett Harris, fingerstyle Piedmont and Delta blues and ragtime guitarist, and his acoustic trio perform at the Patchogue-Medford Public Library, 54-60 East Main Street, Patchogue. 631-654-4700. 2:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic, Three Jolly Pigeons Pub, 6802 3rd Avenue, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. 718-745-9350. 8 p.m.

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarists plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 1/26

Country Blues Jam at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. No cover.

Tuesday, 1/27

Stuart Markus, LI-based singer-songwriter and member of the folk harmony trio Gathering Time, performs solo at Rachel’s Waterside Grill, 281 Woodcleft Avenue, Freeport. 516-546-0050. 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, 1/28

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Life Café, 983 Flushing Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. – Midnight.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 9:30 p.m.

“WoodSongs at the Movies” features a 45-minute live performance by David Bailey, followed by an hour-long screening of Michael Johnathon’s “WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour with featured artists Band of Heathens and Geoff Atcheson. Clearview’s Babylon Cinemas, 34 Main Street (west of Deer Park Avenue), Babylon. 7:30 p.m. $12. Two- for-one tickets are available for Optimum Rewards customers and Folk Music Society of Huntington members who show their card.

Friday, 1/30

James O’Malley, gifted and gentle voiced LI-based singer-songwriter and guitarist performs songs from his new album in the intimate setting of a Finch Mountain House Concert in Babylon. 631-661-1278. 8 p.m. concert, preceded by 7 p.m. pot-luck supper. $15 suggested donation plus a dish to share. Reservations required.

Saturday, 1/31

John Flor and Rorie Kelly, singer-songwriters, perform as part of the Bellport Songwriter Series at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bellport, 51 Browns Lane, Bellport. 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation.

Fourteen Feet, acoustic folk rock, RS Jones, 153 Merrick Avenue, Merrick. 7:30 p.m.

Michelle Shocked, singer-songwriter, performs as part of the Fabulous Folk Series, hosted by WFUV’s John Platt, at The Landmark on Main Street, Jeanne Rimsky Theater, 232 Main Street, Port Washington. (www.landmarkonmainstreet.org). 516-767-6444. 8 p.m. $35 and $40.

Coming up in early February …

Sunday, 2/1

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Sunday Street Acoustic Series at the University Café features Pete Kennedy and Pat Wictor, Stony Brook Union building, Stony Brook University. 2 p.m. (www.universitycafe.org). 631-632-1093. Tickets are $20 if purchased by 1/29; $25 at the door (if available).

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarists plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 2/2

Country Blues Jam at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. No cover.

Tuesday, 2/3

Buddy Merriam & Back Roads, LI bluegrass stalwarts, Checkmate Inn, North Country Road, Setauket. 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, 2/4

Folk Open Sing, sponsored by the Good Coffeehouse and the Pinewoods –Folk Music Society of New York, Ethical Cultural Society building (basement), 53 Prospect Park West (near 2nd Street), Brooklyn. For information, call Alison Kelley, 718-636-6341.

“WoodSongs at the Movies” features a 45-minute live performance by Larry Moser and Mary Nagin, followed by an hour-long screening of Michael Johnathon’s “WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour with featured artists Barra MacNeils and Homemade Jamz Blues Band. Clearview’s Babylon Cinemas, 34 Main Street (west of Deer Park Avenue), Babylon. 7:30 p.m. $12. Two- for-one tickets are available for Optimum Rewards customers and Folk Music Society of Huntington members who show their card.

Thursday, 2/5

Buddy Merriam & Back Roads play bluegrass at the Checkmate Inn, North Country Road, Setauket. 9:30 p.m.

Hooklyn Holler, monthly singer-songwriter series, Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9 p.m. $5 cover.

Old Time Jam with Zot’s Dream (jug music featuring banjos, washboard, washtub bass, tin-can drums, etc), Freddy’s Back Room, 485 Dean Street at Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. to midnight.

Strings n’ Things Open Mic Night, presented by the Smithtown Township Arts Council, at the, Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, Smithtown. (www.stacarts.org). 631-862-6575. 8-9:30 p.m. Sign-up begins at 7:15 p.m. Free.

Friday 2/6

Beaucoup Blue, Philadelphia-based father and son acoustic blues and roots duo, Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor, play The Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn. 8 p.m. (www.gchmusic.org). 718-768-2972. $10; $6 for children.

Homegrown String Band (Inspired by the rural string bands of the early 20th century, Long Island’s Jackofsky family has been performing traditional and neo-traditional acoustic American roots music and lively originals together for more than a decade), at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9 p.m. $10 cover.

Island Songwriters Showcase (ISS) Open Mic at Border’s Café, Jericho Turnpike (Route 25), Syosset. 8 p.m. Those wishing to perform must sign-up with Vinny Crici at 7:30 p.m. (www.islandsongwriters.org).

Lucky 13, new LI-based trio blends the eclectic styles and voices of Marci Geller, Cathy Kreger and Susan DeVita, at The Garden Stage, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau, 223 Stewart Avenue (corner of Nassau Boulevard), Garden City. 8 p.m. $15 in advance; $17 at the door. For advance tickets and information, contact calendar@uuccn.org.

Open Mic Night at the Custer Institute, hosted by singer-songwriter Liza Coppola, 1115 Main Bayview Road, Southold. (www.custerobservatory.org). 631-765-2626. 7-10 p.m. Admission is free, although donations are appreciated.

Dock Oscar and The Ambassadors of Love play a mix of bluegrass, old-time tunes, gospel and more at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 10:30 p.m. $10 cover.
PeaceSmiths Topical, A-Typical, Folk Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse, First United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway/Route 110 (southernmost end near Merrick Road/Montauk Highway), Amityville. 8 p.m. (www.peacesmiths.org). 631-798-0778. $7 suggested donation.

Rhythm Kings Acoustic Duo, Popei’s, 451 Middle Country Road, Coram. 9 p.m.-midnight.

Saturday, 2/7

Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts perform a lively, raucous blend of jug band, old-time, tin pan alley, early jazz and blues music at Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 10 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

The McDades, Juno Award-winning Canadian roots ensemble — whose adventurous music is a blend of Canadiana, Celtic, world and other influences — makes a return appearance for the Folk Music Society of Huntington at the Congregational Church of Huntington, 30 Washington Drive (just off Route 25A) in Centerport. The 8:30 p.m. concert is preceded by an hour-long open mic at 7:30 p.m. (www.fmshny.org). 631-425-2925. $23 in advance; $25 at the door; $18 for FMSH members. Tickets available in advance via Brown Paper Tickets.