Summer is here, and with it comes an array of outdoor festivals and concerts, in addition to many indoor concerts, coffeehouses and open mic nights.
Besides plenty of homegrown talent, a number of notable performers will be visiting the
Within close proximity for many Long Islanders,
Thursday 6/21
Miles to
The Richard Thompson Band & Ollabelle, the iconic British folk-rocker and guitarist extraordinaire and an up-&-coming New York-based roots outfit should make for a wonderful evening of music at the Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West, Park Slope,
Friday 6/22
Phil Minissale, "The Long Island Blues Boy," Tic Toc Cafe,
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys and James Reams & The Barnstormers, a living legend who’s been performing bluegrass for more than half a century is joined by Reams & his band who have been staples on the local bluegrass scene. at the
Dar Williams, one of the top contemporary female singer-songwriters, Stephen Talkhouse,
Saturday, 6/23
Cathy Kreger, Long Island-based singer-songwriter, Elijah Churchill’s, 1031 Route 25A,
The Roches —
The Song Box presents an evening of fingerstyle guitar music with Mark Yodice and Nick Vermitsky in a recording studio at a private residence in
Sunday, 6/24
Red Molly, rootsy Americana trio with a repertoire that features a mix of traditional songs, old gospel, bluegrass, covers of old-timey style numbers by contemporary artists, and a few originals by Abbie Gardner (who is also a dobro virtuoso), with Phil Minissale, "The Long Island Blues Boy," at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum, Great River. 2 p.m. Free admission, but $6 per car fee for parking.
Wednesday, 6/27
"Under the Radar", hosted by WFUV’s John Platt, features local artists Johnny Cuomo, Jack’s Waterfall & Cathy Kreger at The Brokerage, 2797 Merrick Road, Bellmore. 8 p.m.
Thursday, 6/28
Glen Roethel, New York singer-songwriter, Fiddleheads American Fish House & Grill, 62 South Street, Oyster Bay. 7:30 p.m. – midnight.
Friday, 6/29
2nd Annual Acoustic Long Island Summer Concert at the Deepwells Farm Historic Park on Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road) in St. James, presented by the same folks who bring you the popular weekly Wednesday night Acoustic Long Island coffeehouse and podcast series. Featured artists include Red Molly, the rootsy Americana trio that has been mesmerizing audiences with beautiful three-part harmonies and solid musicianship; Little Toby Walker, the 2002 International Blues Challenge winner who has been drawing well-deserved buzz on both sides of the Atlantic for his finger-pickin’ good blues guitar playing; New Yorker Andy Mack and local singer-songwriters Tom Griffith and Martha Trachtenberg. A songwriters’ showcase precedes with Claudia Jacobs, Charlotte Kendrick, Miles to
Bennett Harris, acoustic Blues, Jesse’s Roadhouse BBQ,
Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys fuse klezmer and bluegrass, Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor in the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culure building, 53 Prospect Park West @ 2nd Street, Brooklyn. 8 p.m. $10. (www.bsec.org). 718-768-2972.
Sampawams Creek presents an evening of colonial American music, featuring hornpipes, guitar, mandolin, violin, fife, tin whistle and bodhran, Huntington Public Library,
Saturday, 6/30
Aztec Two-Step (Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman have been together for more than 35 years and are still among the finest acoustic duos around), Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore. 8 p.m. $30. (www.boultoncenter.org). 631-969-1101.
Bennett Harris, acoustic blues, RS Jones Cajun Restaurant,
JULY 2007
Tuesday, 7/3
Bluegrass Tuesdays, featuring local acts, Laila Lounge, 113 North 7th Street (between Wythe & Berry), Brooklyn. 9-11 p.m.
Thursday, 7/5
Live in the Lobby “Unplugged,” a benefit concert for the Live in the Lobby concert series at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts featuring LI artists Joseph Ady, The Casuist, The Eastenders, Tom Groney, Andrew Jimenez, Johnny Lee Jordan, Dave Marsh, Phil Minissale, Nina Marie, Jon Preddice, Jay Scott, Hank Stone, Seamus Sullivan, The Sun Gets Down, Scott Tweedy and Giovanni Von Essen.
Friday, 7/6
Phil Minissale and Gina Tomitz, acoustic blues, Eastenders Coffeehouse,
Saturday, 7/7
Island Songwriters Showcase (ISS) Open Mic at Border’s Books & Café, Jericho Turnpike, Syosset. 8 p.m.
Sunday, 7/8
Northport Arts Coalition’s “Art, Music & Poetry in the Park” features an acoustic stage organized by LI singer-songwriter Glen Roethel. Local performing artists include Stuart Markus, Matthew Fallon, Denise Romas, Bruce Markow, Marie DelCruz and Joe Songwriter. The gazebo at
Tuesday, 7/10
James O’Malley, a gifted and gentle-voiced singer-songwriter & guitarist, and two-time finalist in the Plowshares Songwriting Competition, Connetquot Public Library, 760 Ocean Avenue, Bohemia. 7-8:30 p.m. (www.connetquot.lib.ny.us). 631-567-5079. Free.
Simple Gifts, ethnic folk trio plays Irish, American, Scandinavian & Klezmer tunes,
Bluegrass Tuesdays, featuring local acts, Laila Lounge, 113 North 7th Street (between Wythe & Berry), Brooklyn. 9-11 p.m.
Wednesday, 7/11
Acoustic Long Island hour-long open mic, followed by featured performer Jud Caswell, a Maine-based singer-songwriter who recently won the 2007 Plowshares Songwriting Contest and earned top honors in several songwriting competitions last year, Deepwells Mansion, North Country Road (Route 25A), just west of Moriches Road, St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.
MacTalla Mor, Celtic ensemble featuring Highland bagpipes, piano, vocals and bodhran, performs as part of the Southampton Cultural Center’s Concerts in the Park Series at Agawam Park in Southampton. 6:30 p.m. (www.southamptonculturalcenter.org). 631-287-4377.
Open Mic hosted by Pedro Pereira of the Island Songwriters Showcase, Asta Wine Café & Art Gallery,
Thursday, 7/12
Danielle Miraglia, soulful & raspy voiced singer-songwriter and Delta-style blues guitarist from the Boston area (with singer-songwriter Tom Bianchi on bass), Fadeley’s Deli Pub, 422 West Main Street, Patchogue. 8 p.m.
Pat Wictor, a gifted, rootsy singer-songwriter and lap-slide guitarist, who also performs numbers by others in his own distinctive style; and local singer-songwriter Cathy Kreger & her group What It Iz, Huntington Summer Arts Festival, Chapin Rainbow Stage at Heckscher Park, Prime Avenue & Route 25A, Huntington. 8:30 p.m. Free. Bring lawn chairs or blankets.
Friday, 7/13
Although not strictly acoustic, the new Great South Bay Music Festival, which runs through Sunday, July 15, at Patchogue’s Shorefront Park, will feature two of the most acclaimed folksinger-songwriters of our time — Richie Havens (tonight) and Tom Rush (Saturday night). Also among some 35 musical acts slated to perform at what’s being billed as an "American rock, jam, folk, blues & brews fest" are jam band Railroad Earth (Saturday night) and a number of local acoustic artists. (www.greatsouthbaymusicfestival.com). Daily admission for adults is $10; while weekend passes are $25. Discounts will be available for seniors, college students and Patchogue village residents, while children under 8 will be admitted free.
Randy Newman, singer-songwriter-film score composer, Friends of the Arts Long Island Summer Festival at Planting Fields Arboretum,
Little Toby Walker, 2002 Memphis International Blues Challenge Winner and Huntington resident brings his finger-lickin’ good Delta blues and ragtime stylings and original songs to the Hauppauge Public Library, 601 Veterans Memorial Highway, Hauppauge. 7:30 p.m. 631-979-1660. Free.
Saturday, 7/14
Great South Bay Music Festival. Tom Rush and Railroad Earth are featured performers tonight. (see Friday, 7/13)
Sunday, 7/15
American Roots Weekend: Tribute to Woody Guthrie features folk-rock quartet cum string band The Mammals, Sarah Lee Guthrie (Arlo’s daughter) & Johnny Irion, and hillbilly swing-jug band The Wiyos,
Great South Bay Music Festival (see Friday 7/14)
Colin Hay (former lead singer for Australia’s Men At Work), solo acoustic, The Crazy Donkey, 1058 Broadhollow Road, Farmingdale. Doors open at 7 p.m. $20.
Tuesday, 7/17
Bluegrass Tuesdays, featuring local acts, Laila Lounge, 113 North 7th Street (between Wythe & Berry), Brooklyn. 9-11 p.m.
Tom Paxton, one of
Wednesday, 7/18
Acoustic
Thursday, 7/19
Cathy Kreger, LI-based singer-songwriter,
Friday, 7/20
"Happenings on Main Street" series sponsored by the Northport Arts Coalition, in conjunction with the Northport Chamber of Commerce, features the bluegrass sounds of Miller’s Crossing, at the edge of Northport’s village park, located on the corner of Main Street and Bay Avenue. 7 p.m. Free.
Cathy Kreger, LI-based singer-songwriter, Fiddleheads American Fish House & Grill, 62 South Street, Oyster Bay. 7:30-11:30 p.m.
Saturday, 7/21
Caroline Doctorow, Sag Harbor-based singer-songwriter and interpreter of Bob Dylan songs, Wine Press Concert Series, Paumanok Vineyards, 1025 Main Road (Route 25), Aquebogue. 6 p.m. $15. Concertgoers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.
John Hammond, veteran acoustic blues guitarist,
The Riverhead Blues Festival, now in its ninth year, is slated for Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and 22, down by the
Sunday, 7/22
Riverhead Blues Festival (see Saturday, 7/21)
Martin Sexton, with special guest Aimee Mann, Friends of the Arts Long Island Summer Festival at Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay. 7 p.m. (www.FOTApresents.org/summerfest.asp). 516-922-0061. $35-$115.
Monday, 7/23
Buddy Merriam & Back Roads, LI mandolinist and his crack bluegrass band, Mary Jane Davies Green, Manhasset, 7:30 p.m. Free. Bring a lawn chair or blanket.
Tuesday, 7/24
Bluegrass Tuesdays, featuring local acts, Laila Lounge, 113 North 7th Street (between Wythe & Berry), Brooklyn. 9-11 p.m.
Amos Lee & others in a benefit concert for the Red Hook Playgroup, Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn. 8:30 p.m. $20.
Glen Roethel, singer-songwriter-guitarist and song stylist with a penchant for positive and intentional songwriting to rekindle your spirits, Islip Arts Council’s Brown Bag Concerts at the Bay Shore Bandshell, Main Street, Bay Shore. 12:30 p.m. (www.islipartscouncil.org). 631-224-5420. Free.
Wednesday, 7/25
Acoustic Long Island series features Phil Minissale, the “Long Island Blues Boy,” preceded by an hour-long open, Deepwells Mansion, North Country Road (Route 25A), just west of Moriches Road, St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.
Babylon Village BayFest, presented by the Babylon Village Arts Council, features rootsy female
Bennett Harris, LI Delta blues and ragtime guitarist & his acoustic trio (with fiddle bass), Connetquot Library,
Denise Romas brings a special sound to well-known songs and to her own well-written & often poignant originals (with Larry Weiss on bass and Robert Langley on percussion),
Thursday, 7/26
Cathy Kreger, LI-based singer-songwriter,
Glen Roethel, singer-songwriter-guitarist and song stylist, Fiddleheads American Fish House & Grill,
Saturday, 7/28
Bennett Harris, LI acoustic blues guitarist, RS Jones Restaurant,
Lucinda Williams, rootsy alt-country singer-songwriter brings her West tour east to the
Tuesday, 7/31
Bennett Harris, local Delta blues and ragtime guitarist, Tennessee Jack’s,
Bluegrass Tuesdays, featuring local acts, Laila Lounge, 113 North 7th Street (between Wythe & Berry), Brooklyn. 9-11 p.m.
Red Molly, rootsy female Americana trio, Connetquot Public Library, 760 Ocean Avenue, Bohemia. 7 p.m. (www.connetquot.lib.ny.us). 631-567-5079. Free.
AUGUST 2007
Wednesday, 8/1
Acoustic Long Island hour-long open mic, followed by a featured performer, Deepwells Mansion, North Country Road (Route 25A), just west of Moriches Road, St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.
Friday, 8/3
Phil Minissale, “Long Island Blues Boy” who has been impressing folks locally with his Delta-style fingerstyle guitar licks, Port Washington Public Library,
Saturday, 8/4
Island Songwriters Showcase (ISS) Open Mic at Border’s Books & Café, Jericho Turnpike, Syosset. 8 p.m.
Phil Minissale, “Long Island Blues Boy,” The Spoon Coffeehouse, 125A
Tuesday, 8/7
Rebecca Hall may hail from southern
Wednesday, 8/8
Acoustic Long Island hour-long open mic, followed by a featured performer, Deepwells Mansion, North Country Road (Route 25A), just west of Moriches Road, St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.
Open Mic hosted by Pedro Pereira of the Island Songwriters Showcase, Asta Wine Café & Art Gallery,
Friday, 8/10
Caroline Doctorow, Sag Harbor-based singer-songwriter and interpreter of Bob Dylan songs, the Grounds and Sounds Cafe at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Stony Brook, 380 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook (one mile north of the Route 347 intersection). An open mic precedes at 8 p.m., for which sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m. (www.groundsandsounds.uufsb.org). $15
Greg Klyma, Rust Belt folk troubadour with a rock ‘n’ roll heart and solid songs like "Two Degrees in Buffalo," Fadeley’s Deli Pub, 422 W. Main Street, Patchogue. 7-9 p.m. 631-758-8882.
Dayna Kurtz, NYC-based singer songwriter, with LI-based opener Claudia Jacobs, Huntington Summer Arts Festival at the Chapin Rainbow Stage, Heckscher Park, Prime Avenue and Route 25A, Huntington. 8:30 p.m. Bring a lawn chair. (www.huntingtonarts.org). Free.
Saturday, 8/11
Folk-rock singer Songwriter Steve Forbert, best known for his 1979 album Jackrabbit Slim and its sprightly hit single, “Romeo’s Tune,” headlines the 2nd Annual Huntington Folk Festival on the Chapin Rainbow Stage at
Sunday, 8/12
Little Toby Walker, a 2002 Memphis International Blues Challenge Winner, who makes his home on LI but has drawn fans and media buzz on both sides of the Atlantic with his finger-pickin’ good Delta blues and ragtime guitar stylings, plays the Islip Arts Council’s Sunday afternoon concert series at Bayard Cutting Arboretum, Montauk Highway, Great River. 2-4 p.m. (www.islipartscouncil.org). 631-224-5420. Admission is free, but there is a $6 parking fee.
1960s Folk-Rock Retrospective featuring AM-FM (Stuart Markus, Judith Zweiman & Glen Roethel), outdoors – weather prermitting, at the The Friedberg JCC, 15 Neil Court, Oceanside. 7:30 p.m. 516-766-4341. Bring a picnic dinner, beach chair, some friends, and come dance, sing & celebrate an era. Feeling groovy? $10; $7 for JCC members.
Tuesday, 8/14
Peter Finger, an acclaimed German fingerstyle acoustic guitarist who has recorded some 20 albums and has penned compositions for film, television and orchestras, makes a rare LI appearance as part of the Islip Arts Council’s series of free Tuesday Brown Bag Concerts at the octagonal-shaped bandshell on
Wednesday, 8/15
Acoustic Long Island hour-long open mic, followed by a featured performer, Deepwells Mansion, North Country Road (Route 25A), just west of Moriches Road, St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.
Thursday, 8/16
Glen Roethel, singer-songwriter-guitarist and song stylist with a penchant for positive and intentional songwriting to rekindle your spirits, The Inn at New Hyde Park, 214 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park. 8 p.m.
Friday, 8/17
Steve Robinson, singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist, Jesse’s Lip Smackin’ Roadhouse, 1810 Merrick Roaf, Merrick. 8 p.m.
Saturday, 8/18
Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder headline the 5th Annual Long Island Bluegrass Festival presented by the Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts (BACCA) and the Town of
Steve Robinson, singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist, Irish Cottage, 1010 Park Boulevard, Massapequa Park. 8 p.m.
Sunday, 8/19
Jake Amerding, genre-bending New England singer-songwriter/violininist , Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimar Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 8:30-9:30 p.m.
Gail Storm, barrelhouse blues pianist and vocalist from
Tuesday, 8/21
Homegrown String Band, LI’s Jackofsky family will play old-time country music and likely incorporate some percussive flatfoot dancing into its performance as part of the Islip Arts Council’s series of free Tuesday Brown Bag Concerts at the octagonal-shaped bandshell on
Wednesday, 8/22
Acoustic Long Island hour-long open mic, followed by featured performer Trippin Lilly, Deepwells Mansion, North Country Road (Route 25A), just west of Moriches Road, St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.
Pat Wictor, top-notch blues-based, rootsy singer-songwriter and lap-style guitarist, performs as part of the Music on Main series of free outdoor concerts near the junction of Main Street and East Broadway in Port Jefferson. 7 p.m. 631-473-5220.
Glen Roethel, singer-songwriter-guitarist and song stylist with a penchant for positive and intentional songwriting to rekindle your spirits, Fiddleheads American Fish House & Grill, 62 South Street, Oyster Bay. 7:30-11:30 p.m.
Saturday, 8/25
Rosanne Cash and The Flatlanders (Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock) share the bill and close out the Friends of the Arts’ Long Island Summer Festival tonight at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay. 7 p.m. (www.FOTApresents.org). 516-922-0061. $35-$60 in advance, $5 more at the gate.
Cathy Kreger, LI-based singer-songwriter, Elijah Churchill’s, 1031 Route 25A,
Sunday, 8/26
Jake Amerding, genre-bending New England singer-songwriter/violininist , Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimar Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 8:30-9:30 p.m.
The Daydreamers, a LI-based folkabilly outfit with an electro-acoustic sound, plays the Islip Arts Council’s Sunday afternoon concert series at Bayard Cutting Arboretum,
23rd Annual Long Island Fiddle Festival, co-presented by the Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages and the Long Island Traditional Music Association (LITMA), features the old-timey swing music of Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, talented Ottawa Valley fiddler April Verch, and finger-pickin’ good LI-based Delta blues-style guitarist Little Toby Walker, among others, on the museum’s grounds, 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook. Noon-5 p.m. (www.longislandmuseum.org). 631-751-0066. $15 for adults; $10 for children. Bring a lawn chair.
“Wild About Harry,” annual Harry Chapin tribute concert in support of Long Island Cares and World Hunger Year, two nonprofit organizations founded by the late singer-songwriter and humanitarian from
Tuesday, 8/28
Terry Winchell, an East End singer-songwriter whose music is a blend of folk/rock, country and
Wednesday, 8/29
Acoustic Long Island hour-long open mic, followed by featured performer Howard Emerson, LI-based guitarist, Deepwells Mansion, North Country Road (Route 25A), just west of Moriches Road, St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.
Friday, 8/31
Hank Stone, LI-based singer-songwriter, The Spoon Coffeehouse, 125A
September 2007
Saturday, 9/1
Phil Minissale, the "Long Island Blues Boy," Brown Dog Cafe, Main Street, Kings Park. 8 p.m.
Saturday, 9/1 – Monday, 9/3
Acoustic Long Island, hour-long open mic, followed by a featured performer, Deepwells Mansion, North Country Road (Route 25A), just west of Moriches Road, St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.
Thursday, 9/6
Glen Roethel, singer-songwriter-guitarist with a penchant for positive and intentional songwriting, Fiddleheads American Fish House & Grill, 62 South Street, Oyster Bay. 7:30-11:30 p.m.
Old Time Jam with Zot’s Dream, Freddy’s, 485 Dean Street (at 6th Avenue), Brooklyn. 9:30 p.m.
Island Songwriters Showcase (ISS) Syosset Showcase, featured artist followed by open mic, Border’s, Jericho Turnpike, Syosset. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Red Molly, rootsy female Americana trio, Garden Stage athe Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau, 223 Stewart Avenue (corner of Nassau Boulevard), Garden City. 8 p.m. (www.uuccn.org). 516-248-8855. $15.
Saturday, 9/8
Buddy Merriam & Backroads, bluegrass concert under the auspices of the Long Island Traditional Music Association (LITMA), Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Round Swamp Road, Old Bethpage. (www.LITMA.org). 631-281-5648.
LI singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist Bob Westcott & "Long Island Blues Boy" Phil Minissale, who also has been impressing audiences with his fingerstyle playing, kick off a new season of live music at The Eclectic Cafe, Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk 28 Brentwood Road, Bay Shore. 8:30 p.m., preceded by an hour-long open mic. (www.eclecticcafe.org). 631-661-1278. $10; $8 for members. Free slice of pizza with admission.
The Folk-Groovin’ Cafe, hosted by Jim Frizzitta, St. Lawrence of Canterbury Church, 655 Old Country Road, Dix Hills. 8 p.m. $7.
Wednesday, 9/12
Acoustic Long Island, hour-long open mic, followed by a featured performer, Deepwells Mansion, North Country Road (Route 25A), just west of Moriches Road, St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.
John Hammond plays the blues, Brokerage Comedy Club, 2797 Merrick Road, Bellmore.
Thursday, 9/13
The Homegrown String Band, LI’s Jackofsky family plays traditional and original American roots music for the Babylon Village Arts council, Astoria Federal Savings Bank, 180 West Main Street, Babylon. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Old Time Jam with Zot’s Dream, Freddy’s, 485 Dean Street (at 6th Avenue), Brooklyn. 9:30 p.m.
Friday, 9/14
Judy Collins with special guests Nanci Griffith and Dar Williams, three gifted contempory folk artists, North Fork Theater at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury. 8 p.m.
10th Annual Park Slope Bluegrass & Old-Time Jamboree, features a day and a half of old-time bluegrass concerts, jamming and workshops both inside a century-old Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture meeting house that is home to the Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor concert series, as well as outside on its park-like grounds in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. “We try to keep things on a small scale,” says popular local bluegrass band leader James Reams, who hosts the annual event. “We want people to feel at home and have a good time. The only thing big is the big time we hope everyone has.” (www.bsec.org).
Saturday, 9/15
The Homegrown String Band, LI’s Jackofsky family plays traditional and original American roots music, Sachem Public Library, 150 Holbrook Road, Holbrook. 2 p.m. 631-588-5024. Free.
Steve Robinson, singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist recently selected to represent the Long Island Blues Society in the 2008 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, performs at the Syosset Street Festival 2007, along Jackson Avenue, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, 9/19
Acoustic Long Island, hour-long open mic, followed by a featured performer, Deepwells Mansion, North Country Road (Route 25A), just west of Moriches Road, St. James. 8-10 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.
Thursday, 9/20
Old Time Jam with Zot’s Dream, Freddy’s, 485 Dean Street (at 6th Avenue), Brooklyn. 9:30 p.m.
Friday, 9/21
Cathy Kreger, LI-based singer-songwriter, Starfish, 2095 Merrick Road, Merrick. 7-11 p.m.
David Massengill, CD release party for new release featuring songs of Dave Van Ronk, Our Times Coffeehouse, Ethical Humanist Society building, 38 Old Country Road, Garden City. 8 p.m. (www.ourtimescoffeehouse.org). $15.
Summer Festivals Within Close Proximity to LI
Folks on the Island is the name of a new American folk festival set over four Saturday afternoons in July on Governor’s Island at the mouth of the East River, just off the tip of
Folks on the Island is part of the larger River to River Festival that features lots of free performances at locations throughout lower
The 2007 Pleasantville Music Festival is slated for Saturday, July 14, from 12-8 p.m. at
Although not a festival but, rather, a series of free acoustic music concerts in a lovely setting, Concert Happenings in Ridgefield’s Park (CHIRP) deserve mention. As in years past, Barbara Manners has assembled an impressive lineup of touring artists for this super summer series of suppertime concerts in
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