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Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

Venue, traditional music school, event space
Visit our website, www.jalopytheatre.org

s for youth, outreach in local schools, and group instruction and workshops for adults. 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.

Operating as usual

01/01/2025

Still thinking about last night! Hearts are full over here.

So much love for these unreal musicians and everyone who joined us for the midnight second line♥️

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12/31/2024

This sweet founders moment from of years past♥️ back before we moved it on over to St. Ann’s!

We are SO CLOSE to hitting our goal for our annual fundraiser which will allow us to continue on into the new year. We have so many precious memories with you all and we want to keep making more🥂

If you haven’t donated already, now’s the time! If you are unable to donate, tell ya friends - it helps us a great deal.

Hope to see you all tonight to ring in the new year! Either in the theatre with & special guests or next door at the tavern with

Sooo much love and gratitude to the Jalopy family near and far♥️

12/27/2024

We are still quite a ways away from meeting our goal for our fundraiser! Please help us continue on into the new year.

TO DONATE: https://livingtraditions.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/livingtraditions/donation.jsp?campaign=10

12/25/2024

Happy Holidays to the Jalopy family☃️♥️

We’ve got just one week left to meet our fundraising goal and a long way to go! If you’re able to give this week, it will go towards music school scholarships so that no student is turned away, on and off-site programming, festivals such as the , our in-house record label , and more as we continue to grow the Jalopy community in New York and around the world.

Your gift will help us keep the lights on and the music playing. If you are unable to give, please share this around and tell the people in your life to support Jalopy. Link in bio and on our website to donate.

We love you all so much!! Wishing you and yours a safe and lovely holiday wherever you are💌

12/23/2024

We have a long way to go before we meet our fundraising goal for this year! As a non-profit, we rely on the generosity and support of our community to continue on our mission to be a home to folk and traditional music and art in NYC.

We've got just about one week left! If you are unable to donate yourself, sharing this around and telling your friends and family means the world to us.

TO DONATE: https://livingtraditions.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/livingtraditions/donation.jsp?campaign=10

Wishing you all lots of love and community this holiday season❤️

Photo is a Spring Gala 2024 memory taken by Brian Geltner
From left to right: Geoff Wiley, Lynette Wiley, Riyae Park, Jessica Lange, Nora Brown

12/20/2024

We have some really exciting things in the works over at Jalopy Records for 2025 and we need your help to get us there. We rely on the generosity of our community to help us continue on. If you can’t donate yourself, sharing this around and telling the people in your life to support Jalopy Records means the world to us♥️
We still have a long way to go to reach our giving season goal by the end of this year! We can’t wait to share more with you about what we’ve been working on. 2024 was such a great year but we are setting out for our most monumental year yet!
TO DONATE: https://livingtraditions.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/livingtraditions/donation.jsp?campaign=24

Video by Aaron Cassara

Photos from Jalopy Theatre and School of Music's post

12/04/2024

Oh how we love seeing new members join the family! Since we’ve got some new friends on here too, we thought we’d share some more info about our membership program that we kicked off earlier this year.

BECOME A MEMBER: https://jalopytheatre.org/jalopymembership
BURSTIN' BOOTS IN QUEENS: https://www.flushingtownhall.org/event-detail.php?id=751

As a member, you’ll enjoy access to special events, discounted tickets, front row seats at our shows, exclusive early bird access to tickets and more.

Participation in shared musical tradition creates and maintains community. We have different tiers so there’s something for everyone♥️

Our very first member event will be on December 14th at one of our favorite spots - the private pre-show hang for members will be at 6pm and the dance kicks off at 7pm. Become a member! Come hang, come dance - we’ll see ya there.

Artwork by &

12/04/2024

With wholehearted gratitude we want to thank our sweet community for supporting us this giving season. We raised $17,236.44 yesterday, allowing us to get our match and providing a total of $32,236.44 for Jalopy!

Thank you for helping us in our mission to support and preserve folk and traditional music♥️ we are now almost halfway to our goal of raising $75,000 by the end of the year!

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12/04/2024

Hello Friends. We present to you, the story of Jalopy. We teamed up with some true pillars of the community to share about what we do, why we’re here and where we’re headed.

TO DONATE:
https://livingtraditions.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/livingtraditions/donation.jsp?campaign=10

Now is the giving season. As a non-profit, we rely on the support of our community to keep the lights on and the music playing. This year, we are asking for your help to raise $75,000 that will go towards free programming, scholarships for students, support for artists, and more. The stakes are high this year - every contribution and every step we take to get there matters.

To continue our mission into 2025 and make it through the year, we need your help. We’ll let our new video take it from here!

As always, if you are unable to donate yourself, sharing this video around helps us a ton! As does getting sentimental in the comments🥹

Special thanks to Aaron Cassara for all the camera and editing work on this video and to everyone in it for being a part of our sweet and special community here on Columbia Street and beyond♥️

12/03/2024

BIG REVEAL PART ONE🔔

We are so honored to announce that we were able to raise $60,000 for direct grants to local artists through Support for Artists!! These creative grants are such a gift to the community as it showcases the power of the individual by enabling them to successfully realize their visions.

Big congratulations to our grantees Ali, Miriam, Marlee, Rakel and Maxine. We really believe in you all and can’t wait to see where this takes you - it means so much to us to have been able to work together on this♥️ .makes.mistakes

Helping artists is truly at the heart of everything we do. More on that in part two of the big reveal👀 head to our reels to check it out

12/01/2024

One more little preview and less than 2 days until we can share more🎞️

12/01/2024

It’s almost time for the big reveal!

We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on with you all♥️ very special announcement coming this Tuesday

11/26/2024

We have been secretly working on something quite a bit more exciting than moving these clonky pews all around the theatre. Can’t wait to share more with you 🔜

11/25/2024

Sharing a favorite to announce that we’re just over one week away from Giving Tuesday!

Our goal this year is $15,000. If we hit that, we’ll get a match that will double the impact, which would be huge for us right now. If you’re able to, please consider making a donation and help us keep the music playing.

Donate link will live on in our bio as well as on our website. Thank you all for everything you do to help us continue on♥️

📷 with John Cohen at the 2019

09/23/2024

On Saturday, October 5th, we’re hosting a fundraiser along with Many Lands Mutual Aid () with performances by some of our favorites all for a cause that is so dear to us.

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100% of the proceeds will go directly to their efforts on the ground in Gaza. The money will go towards cash-hand outs to families - a source of income for just a few of the thousands of people who have had none since the start of the war - children’s entertainment, produce baskets, meal packs, hygiene products and cleaning teams, and more.

Tickets are sliding scale starting at $15 but there is an option to donate as much as you are able to.

We hope you’ll come out for this one and help spread a little bit of light to the families who need it right now♥️

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Our Story

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, country, blues and traditional world music at our live concerts and music festivals, and through our record label, Jalopy Records. We also offer classes and performing ensembles for youth, outreach in local schools, and group instruction and workshops for adults. 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.