Roots n Ruckus

This Wednesday @ Roots n' Ruckus @ The Jalopy Theater

2011-11-21T09:54:00.000-08:00

9:30 - Elisabeth Pixley-Fink

Elisabeth Pixley-Fink : Welcome to the Rain from Mostly Midwest on Vimeo.

10:00 - Andru Bemis

10:30 - Feral Foster

Feral Foster - "Black Friday Blues" from Paper Swan on Vimeo.

11:00 - Ian Thomas

Ian Thomas - Poor Children from Live & Breathing on Vimeo.

11:30 - Gabe Barnett

12:00 - Alison Gail Self
(http://www.myspace.com/alison)

10/19 at Roots n Ruckus

2011-10-18T12:05:00.001-07:00

Tomorrow night's lineup...
9:30 - Willy Gantrim & The Phantoms - original songs and electric blues...it's a bird! it's a plane! it's GANTRIM!

10:00 - Feral Foster - The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog
10:30 - Jessy Carolina and the Hot Mess - Jazz from the sepia bowels of history! Clamour! Clamour and be enamoured! The hottest mess around staring Jazzy Carolina and her hot mops! Grief oh grief and where's the beef?!

11:00 - - Ian Link - original songs, honesty, integrity and glamour!

11:30 - Jackson Lynch - watch him play the blues and banjo, watch him remove the beast with forceps.

10/19 at Roots n Ruckus

2011-10-18T12:05:00.000-07:00

THIS WEDNESDAY AT ROOTS N RUCKUS @ THE JALOPY THEATER

2011-10-10T19:09:00.000-07:00

9:30 - Feral Fostereats nothing but FEET!

10:00 - The Little Brothers - awesome musicians playing the wonderful music of the black string and jug bands of the early 20th century

10:30 - Stalebread Scottie - old time and country blues music - Blues Got Ya! (NOLA)

11:00 - Litvakus - REAL Klezmer - the 2nd Avenue Theater brought back to life

11:30 - Jackson Lynch - everyone's favorite talking Giraffe playing his banjo, guitar and fiddle...

12:00 - The Stay All Night Rounders - a bunch of typhus-ridden child laborers who escaped from the coal mines - playing remarkable old timey music.

THIS WEDNESDAY AT ROOTS N' RUCKUS! 10/5/11

2011-10-03T13:01:00.000-07:00

9:30 - Wizards of Finance

10:00 - Feral Foster

10:30 - Stephanie Nilles

11:00 - Canta Tacco (Italian pizzica music)

11:30 - Ian Link

12:00 - The Stay All Night Rounders

This Saturday 4/9 @ Banjo Jim's.

2011-04-07T13:54:00.000-07:00

WE SO EXCITED! ROOTS N' RUCKUS TAKES MANHATTAN AGAIN!
9:00 - Morgan O'Kane

10:00 - Isto

11:00 - Feral Foster, yours truly

12:00 - Ladyfingers

This Thursday The 24th @ Zebulon!

2011-03-23T13:58:00.000-07:00

This Thursday @ Zebulon Cafe @ 258 Wythe Av In Williamsburg!Free 9pm
The WONDERFUL Radio Jarocho!

Feral Foster & Tik Tok as well
DONT MISS THIS TREAT!

This Wednesday @ Jalopy!

2011-03-22T13:45:00.000-07:00

9:30 - The Dust Busters

10:00 - Feral Foster

10:30 - Isto

11:00 - The Whiskey Spitters (Jalopy House Band)

11:30 - Mike Ellison on Tik-Tok

This week's lineup @ the MARVELOUS Jalopy Theater

2011-03-08T12:57:00.000-08:00

9:30 -Mike Ellison of Tik Tok

10:00- M. Lamar

10:30 - Your eternal host, Feral Foster

11:00 - Jessy Carolina and the Hot Messs

11:30 - Jackson Lynch

New York Magazine Article and This Weeks Lineup @ The Jalopy Theater

2011-03-01T12:32:00.000-08:00

Check out yours truly and Jessy Carolina and the Hot Mess this week in New York Magazine by Lizzie Goodman! Get either the printed copy or go on their website (which has more of the interviews and audio clips) here:
Underground Gourmet

This Week we got some great music @ Roots n Ruckus (every Wednesday @ The Jalopy Theater in Red Hook Brooklyn 315 Columbia St)
9:30- Emma Tricca

10:00- Your Eternal Host, Feral Foster

10:30- Spirit Family Reunion

11:00- Jerron Paxton

11:30- ISTO

This Wednesday 2/23 @ Roots n Ruckus @ The Jalopy Theater!

2011-02-23T08:14:00.000-08:00

9:30 - We got some sacred harp singing courtesy of NYC musician Ben Fox and some friends, got no recording of them but I'll show you some sacred harp examples

10:00 - Yours Truly, Feral Foster, eternally at your service.

Feral Foster from Paper Swan on Vimeo.

10:30 - A pleasure and a Roots n Ruckus first, Woody Pines!

11:00 - The ever wonderful Cal Folger Day playing tonight with her magic band!

11:30 - Essau Simbilo Pwelle, a musician from Tanzania who's been sharing great music with us over the last few months!

This week at the Jalopy Theater.

2010-05-03T09:17:00.000-07:00

9:30 - Sick

10:00 - Boom Chick

10:30 - Craig Judelman

11:00 - Tik Tok

11:30 - Feral Foster

This Week @ The Jalopy Theater, Feral Leaves AGAIN!!!!

2010-01-31T20:03:00.000-08:00

9:30 - Joe Crow Ryan

10:00 - Hubby Jenkins

10:30 - Willy Gantrim

11:00 - Feral Foster

11"30 - Jerron Paxton

The return of Paxton this week @ Jalopy.

2010-01-18T17:42:00.000-08:00

9:30 - Free Advice

10:00 - Erik Frandsen
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlwXYwkFcRg) [embedding disabled]
10:30 - Feral Foster

11:00 - Isto

11:30 - Jerron Paxton

The Feral Foster Christmas Special this week @ Jalopy

2009-12-22T17:11:00.000-08:00

The Feral Foster Christmas Special
9:30 - Jessy Carolina
10:00 - Erik Frandsen
10:30 - Orb mellon
11:00 - The Dust Busters
11:30 - Feral Foster
and holiday songs throughout the evening!

This Week @ Jalopy (December 16th, 2009)

2009-12-14T12:16:00.001-08:00

9:30 - Carley Wolf

10:00 - Feral Foster

10:30 - Geoff Wiley
11:00 - Ernie Vega

11:30 - Boom Chick

12:00 - Isto

12:30 - Willy Gantrim

Roots n Ruckus @ The Jalopy Theater December 9th

2009-12-05T11:43:00.000-08:00

9:30 - Feral Foster
10:00 - Richard Perso

10:30 - Stephanie Nilles

11:00 - Veveritse Brass Band

11:45 - Bobby D'Amore

This Week @ Jalopy (December 2nd, 2009)

2009-11-30T06:56:00.000-08:00

This week we welcome back Roots n Ruckus veteran Brownbird Rudy Relic

2009-11-28T13:42:00.000-08:00

I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This Week of November 25th 2009

2009-11-23T11:19:00.000-08:00

This week @ Jalopy
Dom Flemons
Spirit Family Reunion

The Kill Yourself Tour '09

2009-09-26T11:50:00.000-07:00

The Kill Yourself Tour '09 brought to you by Roots n' Ruckus is coming to an end here in North Carolina. It started back what seems so long ago when Willy and I flew out to Seattle, WA. We continued to play on the West Coast then came back east. The tour...

Alynda Lee Segarra the driving force of Hurray for the Riff Raff came with us solo

Samuel Doores (Sundown Songs)

Willy Gantrim

and Yours Truly...

and Cameron (who accompanied us on the Bass)....

List of favorite venues....
Cafe Racer - Ravenna, Seattle
The Uptown Tavern (we love Kittie) - Port Townsend, WA
Bob's Famous Java Jive - Tacoma, WA (a wonderful venue and gig with Tommy Dean, Mindy, Annamarie & Family)
Alberta St Pub - Portland, Oregon
Red and Black Cafe - Portland, Oregon
The Wandering Goat - Eugene, OR (unlimited free beer for musicians microbrew)
Empire Coffee - Chico, California
(Yana and Ian are the best)
Hotel Utah - San Fancisco
Dream Away Lodge - Beckett, Mass
Plough and Stars - Cambridge, Mass
Gilbert's - Camden, Maine
Johnny's - Carrboro, NC
OUR FINAL SHOW IS ON TUESDAY THE 29th at Larue's Backdoor in Asheville, NC

Gigs With old Friends

2009-09-26T11:39:00.001-07:00

Blind Boy Paxton kicked it with us for a few days in the bay area, we played together @ Hotel Utah in SF, the Abco house in Oakland, and Mamma Buzz in Oakland.

We jumped on the bill with Brownbird Rudy Relic and Orb Mellon in Cambridge, Mass

Wonderful Encounters

2009-09-26T10:19:00.000-07:00

The Kill Yourself Tour '09 has crossed the mighty nation! We're just about to get to Asheville, NC and we just played a marvelous gig at Johnny's on Main St in Carrboro. Here's some amazing talent we encountered crossing the country.....
Clarence Gallagher who resides on a farm in Northern Washington....

Kit of the dearly departed Inkwell Rhythm Makers with the Crow Quill Night Owls with Hans on fiddle... u can find them busking in downtown Port Townsend, Wa

Tommy Dean of Tacoma

Shannon Jae of Seattle

Lonesome Shack

Alison Self

and for 7/22

2009-07-21T11:20:00.000-07:00

this week @ Jalopy...
@ 9:30 Tony McGrath
@ 10:00 Amelia Jackie
@ 10:30 Yva Las Vegas
@ 11:00 world classs talent fiddler Craig Judelman!!!!
@ 11:30 Feral Foster
@ 12:00 Ernie Vega
look...
Yva ~

Amelia ~

next week get ready for FERAL's FAREWELL!!

this week....

2009-07-13T11:00:00.000-07:00

This wednesday night @ The Jalopy Theater

9:30 --- Lazaro Valiente (of Mexico City)

10:00 --- Orb Mellon

10:30 --- Scandinavian Half Breeds

11:00 --- Stephanie Nilles

11:30 --- Feral Foster

check em out.....

Stephanie

The Half Breeds

Orb Mellon

Lazaro Valiente

2009-07-07T12:06:00.000-07:00

This Wednesday the @ The Jalopy Theater

9:30 - The Relatives

10:00 - Emma Graves

10:30 - ISTO

11:00 - Feral Foster

11:30 - Bobby Bouzouki

Watch Isto ....

This Week

2009-06-28T14:43:00.000-07:00

This Wednesday @ The Jalopy Theater...

@ 9 ...60'S Folk Legend Randy Burns

@ 9:30...Rashad Brown

@ 10....The Dust Busters

@ 10:30.....Willy Gantrim

@ 11....Manson Family Picnic

@ 11:30....Feral Foster

www.jalopy.biz...315 Columbia St Brooklyn, NY

2009-06-24T12:07:00.000-07:00

This coming Monday June 29, ROOTS N RUCKUS ON THE RIVER!

Starting at 6 p.m. at Stuy Cove Park (23rd St and The East River) a free riverside concert featuring Willy Gantrim, Feral Foster and Frank Hoier....

Be There!

2009-06-24T12:06:00.000-07:00

This Week @ The Jalopy Theater

Willy Gantrim, Frank Hoier, Feral Foster, Craig Judelman

show starts at 10:20 this week!

Welcome to the Ruckus!

2009-06-24T11:55:00.000-07:00

This is the very first post on the www.folkmusicinnewyork.com Roots n' Ruckus blog! Weekly updates on all things Roots n' Ruckus! We're almost 3 1/2 years into our weekly show and 1 1/2 years with it at The Jalopy Theater (www.jalopy.biz) Among the hundreds of performers who have shared their Wednesdays with us are...

Feral Foster, Hubby Jenkins, Willy Gantrim, Dom Flemons (of The Carolina Chocolate Drops), Sam Shepard, Peter Stampfel, Pat Conte, Citizen Kafka, C.W. Stoneking, Blind Boy Paxton, Rudy Relic, Frank Hoier, Jessy Carolina, Honne Wells, The East River String Band, Fuzzy Memory String Band, Isto, Eli Smith, Roletta Fynn, Shakey Bones, Cowboy Killers, Alison Self, Orb Mellon, Darren Deicide, Johnny Hobo, Michael Tichborne, Ivan Ulz, The Potstickers, Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues, Tim McBride, The Old Man & His Po Buckra, Matt Pless, Noah Lekas & The Revival, Randy Burns, Free Grass Union, John Hasbrouck, The Radio Roots, Debe Dalton, Alex Battles & The Whiskey Rebellion, Al Duvall, The 2nd Fiddles, The Bedbugs, Mike Katz, Erik Fransen, The Martin Sisters, Kelli Rae Powell, The Powder Kegs, Jordan Moser, The Apple Brothers, S.A.M., Matt Frank, Cheatinhog, The Peach Colored Jug Smugglers, Elizabeth Devlin, The Ruby Ruby Ruse, Bobby D'amore, Alynda Lee of Hurray for the Riff Raff, Stephanie Niles, Larkin Grimm, John Houx, Elizabeth Butters, The Dust Busters, The Spirit Family Reunion, Mamie Minch, Will Williamson, Drew and the Medicinal Pen, Manson Family Picnic...

The Show starts @ 9:00 pm every Wednesday @ The Jalopy Theater @ 315 Columbia St Brooklyn, NY 11231