Folk Music Society of NY Announces Festival of Traditions, 3/13

The Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. is proud to announce a day long Festival of Traditional Music at The Renaissance Charter School in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC on Saturday March 13. The festival will honor Oscar Brand, whose WNYC radio show "Folksong Festival," now in its 65th year, is the world's longest-running radio show with the same host.

The festival features local performers who represent their living ethnic traditions and performers who have become steeped in those traditions. It's ideal for the whole family, and provides a very rare chance to hear such diverse, high quality performers all in a single venue. There will be blues, gospel, old-time string band, songs of love and war, sea shanties, songs by Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and others, as well as plenty of opportunities for singing and jamming throughout the day.

11 a.m. - 12 noon: Free family concert,. Bring the kids.
12:30 - 5:30 p.m: Workshops, mini-concerts, open mike, singarounds, jamming
7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m.: Evening Concert featuring: Joyful Noise, Norris Bennett, Bobby Kyle Band, and Rafael Gomez

Tickets are $15 for the whole day or $10 for either the afternoon or evening individually. Children (accompanied by an adult): 13-18 are $5 all day; 12 and under are free. (There are no tickets required for the free family concert.) More information is at www.folkmusicny.org or by calling 718-672-6399. Tickets are available at the door or online at www.brownpapertickets/event/98896. The festival is at The Renaissance Charter School, 35-59 81st Street (at the corner of 37th Avenue), in Jackson Heights, Queens, 2 blocks from the 82nd Street Station of the #7 Line.

Oscar Brand is a much loved and respected folksinger, writer, and interpreter. Over the course of his 65-plus-year career he has released 93 albums. He roamed the country with Woody Guthrie, concertized with Leadbelly, and promoted folksingers of all kinds, such as Pete Seeger. Oscar has hosted the Folk Song Festival on New York's WNYC ever since its first show on December 9, 1945.

This event is co-sponsored by The Renaissance Charter School and has been produced with a generous grant from State Assemblyman Jose Peralta.

Visit the website: www.folkmusicny.org/NYNY