This Weekend In Parks

Washington Square Park Folk Music Festival

Saturday, September 15 & Sunday, September 16
2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Washington Square Park
5th Avenue & Washington Square North
Outdoor stage southeast of the central fountain

For the second year, the Washington Square Park Folk Festival will bring 12 musical acts back to the heart of New York City’s legendary 1960s folk music scene. Hosted by festival founder Eli Smith of Down Home Radio Show and the Brooklyn Folk Festival, the two-day event will showcase the talents of local and national bands playing a variety of Appalachian string band music, hot jazz, bluegrass, Americana, blues, and originals by singer songwriters.

Featured performers include: the celebrated American folk music duo, Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz, who will take the stage directly after his former New Lost City Ramblers bandmate, John Cohen — who he performed with in Washington Square Park more than four decades ago. Cohen will be playing with a new old-time string band composed of Eli Smith, Walker Shepard, and Jackson Lynch; one of the most talented multi-instrumentalists in the New York City blues scene, Blind Boy Paxton; the accomplished acoustic guitarist and singer Mamie Minch, with a voice and sensibility well beyond her years; the spirited wife-husband duo, Piedmont Bluz; and folksinger Randy Burns, who joins the festival lineup 46 years after he was dropped off on the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal Street with a guitar in his hand.

Also performing at the festival are a talented crew of young musicians who also connected at Washington Square Park and Greenwich Village hotspots within the last decade that are fueling the blossoming Brooklyn folk music scene.

Saturday, September 15

International Coastal Clean-Up
9:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Soundview Park, Bronx

Birding: Birds of Prey
10:00 a.m.
Owl's Head Park, Brooklyn

2nd Annual Honey Festival
11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Rockaway Beach, Queens

Sunday, September 16

Who Lives in the Marsh?
10:00 a.m.
Marine Park, Brooklyn

Freshkills Park Birding Tour
10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Freshkills Park, Staten Island

Historic New York: The 1964 World's Fair
1:00 p.m.
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

<< Back to Daily Plants Main.