We also offer classes and performing ensembles for youth, outreach in local schools, and group instruction and workshops for adults.
Venue, traditional music school, event space
Visit our website, www.jalopytheatre.org https://linktr.ee/jalopybrooklyn
DONATE: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/thejalopytheatre The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music is a home for music and music-makers: a multi-faceted arts space celebrating traditional folk music through live performances and communal learning. We showcase folk, roots, bluegrass, cou
ntry, blues and traditional world music at our live concerts and music festivals, and through our record label, Jalopy Records. We support folk artists by providing not only a stage for performance, but also employment: folk artists teach our classes, work in the Theatre as sound engineers and bartenders. We also offer learning opportunities to high school and college interns from across New York City who are interested in traditional arts and the music business. Husband and wife team Geoff and Lynette Wiley founded Jalopy in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 2006 with the hope of fostering a community around a shared appreciation of traditional roots music. Jalopy Theatre seeks both to support local and traveling artists, and to educate students and audiences new to this music and culture. Jalopy Theatre recently joined forces with Living Traditions, a nonprofit organization, founded in 1994, dedicated to preserving, promoting and perpetuating traditional folk music. For thirty years, Living Traditions produced the wildly successful KlezKamp, a beloved annual Yiddish folk arts gathering in the Catskills. Living Traditions’ own programming ended in 2014, and we are proud to be taking up their mission as our own. Through this relationship, Jalopy Theatre is now able to operate as a nonprofit organization, which offers us new opportunities to connect with our community, strengthen our organization, and continue to evolve as we begin our second decade. The stage has welcomed scores of notable performers, including Alice Gerrard, Robert Crumb, Spider John Koerner, Wayne Henderson, Happy Traum, Wayne Hancock and Sam Shepard. Some of the greats from the last folk revival, like John Cohen and Baby Gramps, play alongside up-and-coming artists like Alynda Lee, Jerron Paxton, Gill Landry and Dom Flemons, who make up the flourishing young folk scene we have helped foster in New York City. At Jalopy Theatre we prize the handmade, the analog, the authentic, the face-to-face experience. We offer music experiences that are grass roots, non-corporate, and participatory. We provide opportunities for musical traditions to be transmitted across generations, in a communal learning environment that supports joy in music making for people of all ages and abilities. We seek to be a home for the artists, audiences, and students who form and contribute to our community. We invite you to come on down to the Jalopy Theatre for a concert, to take a class, to make friends, and to share with us your love for traditional roots music.
06/08/2026
Tickets are now live for the 2026 Brooklyn Folk Festival!!
Early bird tickets are now live for the 2026 Brooklyn Folk Fest! Presented by the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music. Link in bio🪿
We’re so ready to do it all again this November 6-8 at St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights. The lineup is unreal and we have so much magic in store for you all! It’s our biggest event of the year and this one is going to be so very special.
Be sure to follow along here to be in the know for all things folk fest! Special news and artist announcements are coming soon, keep it locked.
Early bird tickets end July 1st at 12pm EST! Code is ‘early_15_bff2026’
Artwork by Rakel Stammer
06/03/2026
will be on the Brooklyn World Wide stage this Saturday June 6th at 5:30. Mafer is a Venezuelan Bandola player, producer, and composer. You don’t want to miss her incredible performance!!!
06/03/2026
We can’t wait to see this Saturday June 6th at Brooklyn World Wide! Linda EPO’s music draws from her Haitian-Mexican roots to create a once of a kind musical experience and we can wait to hear what she has in store for this weekend!!
06/02/2026
This weekend we are celebrating not one, not two, not three but FOUR Gemini women at the 2026 Brooklyn World Wide!!
will grace the open streets stage at 5:30pm on Saturday, June 6th. Mafer is a Venezuelan bandola virtuosa, producer, and composer redefining traditional music for global stages.
will teach a Dabke dance workshop on the open streets stage at 3:30pm on Saturday, June 6th. Farah is a Palestinian author, poet, multidisciplinary artist, performer, educator, doula, and community organizer.
is not only the co-curator of Brooklyn World Wide but also the Program Director & Development Officer at Jalopy! She works so hard to make this weekend one for the books and one you absolutely can’t miss.
is the Communications Director at Jalopy and you’ll see her running around with a camera all weekend making sure we can cherish all these Brooklyn World Wide memories together.
Don’t miss this chance to be together in community and celebrate these magical women♥️
06/02/2026
We just can’t wait to have Ira Khonen Temple () at Brooklyn World Wide this Friday, June 5th! Presented in partnership with as a part of their accordion showcase, Ira is an accordionist working within the Klezmer tradition, connecting Eastern European Jewish folk music to contemporary performance in the United States.
Get your tickets ahead of time!! Link in bio.
06/02/2026
We are so thrilled to be teaming up with our friends over at the association for for Friday night of Brooklyn World Wide! THIS Friday!
The Association for Cultural Equity was founded by Alan Lomax to explore and sustain the world’s expressive traditions with humanistic commitment and scientific engagement. ACE was registered as a charitable organization in the State of New York in 1983, and is housed at New York City’s
“It still remains for us to learn how we can put our magnificent mass communications technology at the service of each and every branch of the human family.” -Alan Lomax
Here’s a special collection of photos from their archive that feature the accordion! Friday Night of Brooklyn World will be a part of their Accordion Showcase🪗
We can’t wait to see you there!! Get those tickets ahead of time, link in bio.
06/01/2026
We can’t wait to have our dear Farah Barqawi () at this year’s Brooklyn World Wide!! For those who don’t know, Farah is our music school director and a dear member of the Jalopy family. We’ll also be celebrating Farah’s birthday this weekend!! You absolutely don’t want to miss it, get those tickets ahead of time.
Farah Barqawi is a Palestinian author, poet, multidisciplinary artist, performer, educator, doula, and community organizer. She works across multiple genres and mediums, from written words, to podcasts, singing, dancing, and theatrical performances.
From a very young age, Farah fell in love with dance. Throughout primary school years in Damascus, Syria, she choreographed, danced and led a group of classmates for school performances. During middle and high school, Farah was back in Gaza, Palestine, and she was part of the Dabke and Performance group at the Holy Family School (check the video!)
This Saturday, June 6th, at 3pm, Farah will offer a free introductory Palestinian Dabke class, offering simple and foundational moves that anyone of any age or background can perform. Dabke is a traditional folk dance that originated in the Levant, particularly in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. It is usually performed in group settings at weddings, festivals, and other celebrations.
Besides being a symbol of community and celebration, Dabke dancing in Palestine also resembles the continuous resistance, the power of the collective, cultural pride, and the insisting on keeping the Palestinian heritage and stories alive through not only the Dabke energetic moves, but also the music and lyrics.
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05/27/2026
We absolutely can’t wait to have the Jaliya Kafo Music Ensemble at this year’s Brooklyn World Wide! June 5-7, get those tickets ahead of time.
Born into a family of traditional African jalis (musician-historians), Salieu Suso began training on the 21-stringed kora at the age of 8, and began his professional career by the age of fifteen. He has performed widely throughout the U.S., Africa and Europe, and is known for his diverse range of musical collaborations. They hit the open streets stage on Saturday, June 6th at 4:30pm!
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05/26/2026
We can’t wait for Brooklyn World Wide!! We’re so honored to have the wonderful Linda EPO () on the theatre stage on Saturday, June 6th at 9pm. Get your tickets ahead of time!! Link in bio.
Linda EPO’s musical traditions are rooted in the Afro-diasporic and Indigenous cultures of the Americas. As a Haitian-Mexican artist, her work draws from Caribbean, Latin American, African diasporic, jazz, and Creole traditions shaped by migration, language, and rhythm. Singing in Kreyòl, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English, Linda’s music reflects the cultural intersections of Haiti, Mexico, and New York City honoring both ancestral traditions and the living, evolving sound of the Americas.
Video is from our friends over at
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