Time to sing along and stomp your feet: the 8th annual Brooklyn Folk Festival begins Friday.
Our Roger Clark has a preview — and a tribute to folk music, NY1 style.
It's the Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues, a group of musicians playing together for 11 years.
"Sometimes it's dirty music," said Ernesto Gomez, a musician in the band. "Sometimes it's just fun coming up with new lyrics to old songs."
The band is one of more than 30 playing in the Brooklyn Folk Festival, which starts Friday.
The three-day event at the historic in Brooklyn Heights features folk, blues, bluegrass, and other traditional music from New York and around the world.
"It could be from anywhere," festival organizer Eli Smith said. "Obviously there's folk music. Wherever there's folks there's folk music."
"It's a music of the people. So it comes from people," Gomez said.
The festival is presented by the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, a community cultural center in Brooklyn for folk and traditional music.
There will also be film screenings and workshops. You can learn to play or jam with other musicians from the burgeoning folk music scene in Brooklyn.
"The scene's been building up, I think, for the last ten years or so and it's really in a good place," Smith said.
To keep up with the folk theme, Eli and Ernesto gave me a hand playing a musical tribute to NY1 morning anchor Pat Kiernan, seen in the video above.
Not to be outdone, Pat and the entire morning crew produced an extravaganza, a song about yours truly to the tune of one of America's greatest folk songs.
Don't be alarmed: we're not scheduled to perform at the festival, at least not yet. Leave it to the pros to fill this cavernous church with music.
"There's a lot of like really pure kind of musical tones happening that sound beautiful in the church here. It's really nice," Smith said.
For more information on tickets and show times for the Brooklyn Folk Festival, just head to brooklynfolkfest.com.