Compiled by Michael Kornfeld

Detailed listings for nearly 100 concerts, festivals, open mics, jam sessions and musical workshops slated for November in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties appear in this installment of AcousticMusicScene.com’s Long Island AcoustiCalendar.

Sunday, 11/1

Rod Picott and Amanda Shires (Ana Egge opens), play the Sunday Street Acoustic Concert Series at The University Café in the Student Union Building at Stony Brook University. 631-632-1093. (www.universitycafe.com). 2 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.

Danny Schmidt, a truly authentic and gifted, Austin, Texas-based troubadour, plays the Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9 p.m. $10 cover.

Sunday Night Sinner’s Club, featuring folk and country music, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m. to midnight.

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

Monday, 11/2

Island Songwriters Showcase monthly workshop at Five Town College (Room 217), Burr’s Lane, Dix Hills. (www.islandsongwriters.org). 8-11 p.m. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, 11/4

Acoustic Long Island features Jann Klose (adult contemporary with world music influences) and Dan Mills, Deepwells Mansion, Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection, St. James. (www.acousticlongisland.com). 8-10 p.m. 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), Park Slope, Brooklyn. For information, call Alison Kelley, 718-636-6341.

Long Island Fingerstyle Guitar Club monthly meeting, Westbury Friends Meeting House, 550 Post Avenue., Westbury. (www.lifgc.com). 8 p.m.

Buddy Merriam and Back Roads, Long Island-based bluegrass stalwarts, play the Checkmate Inn, North Country Road, Setauket. 9:30 p.m.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 11/5

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 8 p.m. 631-264-0564.

Free Grass Union, LI –based bluegrass band, plays Live in the Lobby at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, 71 East Main Street, Patchogue. (www.patchoguetheater.com). 631-207-1313. 7:30 p.m. $10.

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.

Traditional Irish Session, Maguire’s Public House, 54-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens. 9:30 p.m. 718-429-9426.

Friday, 11/6

Tony DeMarco, folk fiddler, Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9 p.m. $10 cover.

Ari Eisinger, a finger-picking guitarist who specializes in 1920s-30s blues and ragtime, performs as part of the Traveling Troubadour Concert Series for The Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture building, 53 Prospect Park West at 2nd Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. (www.bsec.org). 718-768-2972. $15.

Richie Havens, the legendary singer-songwriter, guitarist and song interpreter who opened Woodstock 40 years ago, plays the YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore. 631-969-1101. (www.boultoncenter.org). 8 p.m. Sold out.

Island Songwriters Showcase at Border’s, 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).

Peacesmiths’ Topical, A-typical, Folk Music, Poetry & Whatever Coffeehouse features Sonny Meadows and Bob Westcott, First United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway (southern end of Route 110), Amityville. 631-798-0778. 8 p.m. $7 suggested donation includes refreshments.

Saturday, 11/7

Joe Iadanza & His Beautiful Band and David Jacobs-Strain share a bill as part of the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s First Saturdays Series. Iadanza, who also has secured a couple of coveted showcase slots during this month’s Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) Conference, is a storyteller and a sophisticated folkie with a strikingly unusual tenor voice, a foot-stomping Euro-jazz-schooled band, and a growing repertoire of smart, witty, warm, and stick-in-your-ear hummable songs that span the genres of folk, rock, roots and Americana – at times harkening back to a bygone era with its European jazz feel. A consummate fingerstyle and slide guitarist/singer, David Jacobs-Strain is a gifted young bluesman and modern roots musician who is steeped in the country blues tradition but isn’t from it. The Congregational Church of Huntington, 30 Washington Drive (just off 25A at the Welcome to Centerport sign), Centerport. (www.fmshny.org). 631-425-2925. An hour-long open mic precedes the concert at 7:30 p.m. $20; $15 for members.

Folk Groovin’ Café hosted by Jim Frazzitta, St. Lawrence of Canterbury Church, 665 Old Country Road, Dix Hills.

Two Man Gentlemen Band play a mix of jazz, old-time country, Tin Pan Alley and vaudevillian swing, Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 10:30 p.m. $10 cover.

Sunday, 11/8

John Wesley Harding performs for the Sunday Street Acoustic Concert Series at The University Café in the Student Union Building at Stony Brook University. 631-632-1093. (www.universitycafe.com). 2 p.m. Tickets are available online for $20 until Nov. 5 and for $25 at the door (if available).

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), performs at the Northport Public Library, 151 Laurel Avenue, Northport. 631-261-6930. 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.

Sunday Night Sinner’s Club, featuring folk and country music, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m. to midnight.

Pat Wictor, a gifted roots musician, songwriter and song stylist, plays the Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 8 p.m. $10 cover.

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

Monday, 11/9

“Music from the Hive,” a monthly singer-songwriter series with four featured artists and an all-originals open mic, Mirelle’s Restaurant, 170 Post Avenue. Westbury. 8 p.m.

Tuesday, 11/10

Mike & Ruthy (Mike Merenda & Ruth Ungar Merenda), Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9 p.m. $10 cover.

Wednesday, 11/11

The Infamous Stringdusters — IBMA Album of the Year winners mix bluegrass, jazz, folk, rock, blues and country – at The Bell House, 149 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn. 718-643-6510. 7:30 p.m. $12 in advance; $15 at the door.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 11/12

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 8 p.m. 631-264-0564.

Babylon Village Arts Council Second Thursdays Concert Series presents John Wort Hannam, a gifted rootsy troubadour from the prairies of southern Alberta who is the real deal and a must-see live performer, at Astoria Federal Savings Bank, 180 West Main Street, Babylon. (www.babylonvillagearts.org). 7:30 p.m. Free.

Gaucho, San Francisco Bay Area gypsy swing band mixes Django, Klezmer, choros and American roots music at Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 10 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Green Palate Open Mic Night, an evening of music and poetry with a featured performance plus an open mic, Cold Spring Harbor Public Library, Main Street (Route 25A), Cold Spring Harbor. 6:30-9:30 p.m.; performer sign-up at 6 p.m. $5 admission includes healthy snacks.

Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts play a raucous blend of jug band, old time, Tin Pan Alley, early jazz and blues at Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 10 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

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.

Traditional Irish Session, Maguire’s Public House, 54-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens. 9:30 p.m. 718-429-9426.

Friday, 11/13

The Flatlanders (comprised of talented Texas-Americana artists Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock) play the Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore. 631-969-1101. (www.boultoncenter.org). 8 p.m. $40; $35 for members.

Ken “The Rocket” Korb (a gifted harmonic player) and Friends play the Grey Horse Tavern, 291 Bayport Avenue, Bayport. 8 p.m.

W.C. Handy Award winners Paul Rishell and Annie Raines perform an evening of country blues as part of the Traveling Troubadour Concert Series for The Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture building, 53 Prospect Park West at 2nd Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. (www.bsec.org). 718-768-2972. $15.

Saturday, 11/14

The Eclectic Café presents local artists Dee Harris and Greg Fine at the Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk, 28 Brentwood Road, Bay Shore. (www.eclecticcafe.org). 631-661-1278. 8:30 p.m. concert is preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m. $10; $8 for members.

Grand Folk Railroad (duo featuring Susan Cohen and Mike Christian) plays the CMNY Café, 2945pstead Turnpike, Levittown. 7 p.m.

Miles to Dayton, LI-based ensemble performs a mix of folk, rock, classical and funk, for the Homegrown Music Café, a new monthly series, at St. Gerard Majella Church, 300 Terryville Road (just south of Route 347), Port Jefferson Station. Also performing will be Rich Russo, Liza Coppola and Downward Dogz. (www.homegrowncafe.com). 8 p.m.

Denise Romas, a performing songwriter whose beautiful voice and guitar accompaniment bring a special sound to well-known songs and her own well-written and often poignant originals, performs at Long Island’s Best Desserts, 104 Main Street, Port Jefferson. 631-403-4316. 7-10 p.m.

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

Sunday, 11/15

Gathering Time, folk-rock harmony trio featuring Glen Roethel, Stuart Markus and Hillary Foxsong, performs stylistic interpretations of choice covers of songs by Crosby, Stills & Nash, Peter, Paul & Mary, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell and others in “TheGreat Folk-Rock Revival Show” at the Port Washington Public Library, One Library Drive, Port Washington. 2 p.m. Free.

Grand Folk Railroad (duo featuring Susan Cohen and Mike Christian) plays The Village Lanterne restaurant, 143 N. Wellwood Avenue, Lindenhurst. 2 p.m.

Matt and Shannon Heaton, Irish folk duo from Massachusetts featuring two voices, guitar and Irish flute, Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m. $10 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.

Sunday Night Sinner’s Club, featuring folk and country music, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m. to midnight.

Monday, 11/16

Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange features three songwriters performing in-the-round — host Rebecca Pronsky, Matt Keating and Pittsburgh’s Emily Rodgers – at Union Hall, Union Street at 5th Avenue, Park Slope Brooklyn. 718-638-4460. 8 p.m. Free.

Open Mic, The Village Lanterne, 143 N. Wellwood Avenue Lindenhurst. 631-225-1690. Sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, 11/17

William Elliott Whitmore, Philadelphia’s Hoots & Hellmouth and The Lorax play Union Hall, Union Street at 5th Avenue, Park Slope Brooklyn. 718-638-4460. 7:30 p.m. $10 cover.

Wednesday, 11/18

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Joe Purdy, folk singer-songwriter from Arkansas, performs at The Bell House, 149 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn. 718-643-6510. 7:30 p.m. $15 cover.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 11/19

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 8 p.m. 631-264-0564.

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.

Grant Lee Phillips and Winterpills play Union Hall, Union Street at 5th Avenue, Park Slope Brooklyn. 718-638-4460. 7:30 p.m. $18 in advance; $20 at the door.

Traditional Irish Session, Maguire’s Public House, 54-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens. 9:30 p.m. 718-429-9426.

Friday, 11/20

Dala, a young female duo from Toronto with beautiful vocal harmonies, plays the Sunday Street Acoustic Concert Series at The University Café in the Student Union Building at Stony Brook University. 631-632-1093. (www.universitycafe.com). 7 p.m. Tickets are available online for $15 until Nov. 19 and for $20 at the door (if available).

Greg Greenway, a Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter with a powerful voice, returns to the Our Times Coffeehouse at the Ethical Culture Society building d Country Road in Garden City. (www.ourtimescoffeehouse.com). 8 p.m. $15.

Buddy Merriam and Back Roads, Long Island-based bluegrass stalwarts, Eastport American Legion Hall, 478 Montauk Highway, Eastport. 631-325-1976. 7-10 p.m. $20.

Saturday, 11/21

Folk Music Society of Huntington Hard Luck Café series features Angelo M (a gifted and earthy fingerstyle guitar and slide dobro-playing roots and blues artist from Pennsylvania
and Meg Braun (a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter) at The Congregational Church of Huntington, 30 Washington Drive, Centerport. 631-425-2925. (www.fmshny.org). A one-hour open mic, beginning at 7:30 p.m., precedes the concert. $10; $7 for FMSH members.

Patchogue Folk Festival features acclaimed nationally touring artists Judy Collins, John Gorka and Susan Werner in the evening, preceded by a free special edition of “Live in the Lobby” beginning at noon and featuring local artists Caroline Doctorow, Johnnie Lee Jordan, Claudia Jacobs, James O’Malley, Hank Stone, Nina Et Cetera, Jay Scott, Johnny Cuomo and Miles to Dayton at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, 71 East Main Street, Patchogue. (www.patchoguetheater.com). 631-207-1313. Tickets for the evening concert range from $35-$75.

Sunday, 11/22

Pat Conte and Joe Bellulovich, Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 8 p.m. $10 cover.

Anthony da Costa and John Elliott, two gifted emerging talents on the folk scene, share a bill and their music in an intimate house concert setting in Merrick. (www.courthouseconcerts.com). 3 p.m. concert is preceded by a pre-show gathering at 2 p.m. $20 suggested donation. Reservations required via email to courthouseconcerts@yahoo.com.

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.

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 Night Sinner’s Club, featuring folk and country music, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m. to midnight.

Susan Werner, a wonderful and witty singer-songwriter and all-around entertainer, performs as part of the Finch Mountain House Concerts series held in a private residence in Babylon Village. Singer-songwriter Julia Joseph opens. 2 p.m. $25 suggested donation for the artist plus a dish for a potluck meal. Reservations and payment in advance required. Call 631-661-1278 or email kfinken@suffolk.lib.ny.us for further information and reservations.

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

Monday, 11/23

Open Mic, The Village Lanterne, 143 N. Wellwood Avenue Lindenhurst. 631-225-1690. Sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, 11/25

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 11/26

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 8 p.m. 631-264-0564.

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.

Traditional Irish Session, Maguire’s Public House, 54-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens. 9:30 p.m. 718-429-9426.

Saturday, 11/28

Maria Fairchild, a Long Island-based banjo player and singer, performs for the Last Licks Café at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington, 109 Browns Road, Huntington. ( www.lastlickscafe.com). 631-427-9547. A 7:30 p.m. open mic precedes the concert. $15.

Open Mic Night at Soul Growth, 50 West Montauk Highway, Lindenhurst. 631-957-4692. 8 p.m.

Little Toby Walker may have left Long Island but he returns to play the blues at the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall, 18 Peconic Avenue, Riverhead. (www.vail-leavitt.org). 8 p.m. $20; $15 in advance.

Sunday, 11/29

Ellis Paul, a talented singer-songwriter from Massachusetts, returns to play the Sunday Street Acoustic Concert Series at The University Café in the Student Union Building at Stony Brook University. 631-632-1093. (www.universitycafe.com). 2 p.m. Tickets are $22 if purchased online by Nov. 24 and $27 at the door (if available).

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 Night Sinner’s Club, featuring folk and country music, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m. to midnight.

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

Monday, 11/30

Open Mic, The Village Lanterne, 143 N. Wellwood Avenue Lindenhurst. 631-225-1690. Sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m.