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Alex Battles presents the 4th Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival September 6-8, 2007 with hosts:

Supergirl (Brooklyn)		Shafer Hall (Country)	Alex Battles (Music)	Jamie Lyn Smith (Festival)

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DAY 1 Thursday September 6, 2007 BUTTERMILK 577 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY no cover, (tip the Y'All Stars)
8pm The Y'All Stars			9pm - Midnight The CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree

DAY 2 Friday September 7, 2007 Southpaw 125 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY $10
8pm Jessica Rose & the High Life	9pm Lonesome Prairie Dogs	10pm Sweet William	11pm Two Man Gentlemen Band	midnight Defibulators	1am Andy Friedman & The Other Failures
also Texas poet Shafer Hall will poems about:

DAY 2 & DAY 3 VALUE PASS!

DAY 3 Saturday September 8, 2007 Southpaw 125 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY $10
4pm Carolyn Sills' 75th Birthday Tribute to Patsy Cline	5pm Erin Farrell	6pm Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co.	7pm Grizzly's Banjo Assault	8pm Hogzilla	9pm Jack Grace Band

10pm The Doc Marshalls	11pm Alex Battles' Whisky Rebellion	midnight Uncle Leon & the Alibis	1am The Flanks	all night DJ Palms	and Sammo

and our generous sponsor... PIE! (homemade pie contests each day!)

GANG TWANGERS

The Susquehannah Tool & Die Co. is one of the acts in the Brooklyn Country Music Festival in Park Slope.

By MARY HUHN
August 31, 2007 -- THE Fourth Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival two-steps it up in Park Slope.

Y'all Stars and

CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree - a jam session for country fans to jam, sing and drink - starts it off with a bang Thursday at the Buttermilk Bar (no cover; 577 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn; [718] 788-6297). The honky-tonk happening continues Sept. 7 at Southpaw ($10 cover; 125 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn; [718] 230-0236) with six acts, including the Two Man Gentlemen Band, the Defibulators and Andy Friedman & the Other Failures.

Continuing at Southpaw at 3 p.m. Sept. 8, the twangy treat, featuring "100 percent homegrown" New York acts, kicks up the dust with a birthday tribute to Patsy Cline (who would have turned 75 that day) from Cline cover band Carolyn Sills & A Poor Man's Roses. Other bands include the Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co., Jack Grace Band, Alex Battles' Whisky Rebellion, Uncle Leon & the Alibis and others. For more info, go to brooklyncountrymusic.com.

Goings on About Town

Night Life

BROOKLYN COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL

This gathering, which is now in its fourth year, celebrates the back-porch Kings County music scene. It takes traditional Nashville and Bakersfield electrified-honky-tonk aesthetics as a guide but adds a gritty native pulse, influenced by rumbling subway trains, alternate-side-of-the-street parking, and the presence of a few million close neighbors. This year, the festival is taking place Sept. 6-8 at two Brooklyn bars, Buttermilk and Southpaw. There’s plenty of music on tap (along with homemade-pie contests each night).

Sure it’s the city, but there’re plenty of country pickers here

08/23/2007




	Country music impresario Alex Battles and Brooklyn Country Music present the 4th Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival in Park Slope on September 6-8

On September 6-8, country music impresario Alex Battles and Brooklyn Country Music present the 4th Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival in Park Slope. The fun begins at Buttermilk Bar, 577 5th Avenue, September 5 at 8 p.m. (there is no cover) and continues on Friday and Saturday at Southpaw, 125 5th Avenue ($10 per day or $15 for both). Friday night kicks off at 7 p.m. and Saturday is an all-day extravaganza beginning at 3 p.m.

Brooklyn Country Music is simple, good-time dance band music. Though it reflects the life of the city and its people, the music harkens back to a more traditional era of country, where the sounds of trains provided the pulsating beat in honky-tonks and juke joints around the country. This tradition has been brought to life again City, where an intrepid group of players and songwriters ride subways to come together and share their urban experiences in country song form.

This year’s Brooklyn Country Music Festival presents the top of New York City’s country music scene. The Southpaw lineup includes Jessica Rose & the High Life, The Lonesome Prairie Dogs, Sweet William, The Two Man Gentlemen Band, The Defibulators, Andy Friedman & The Other Failures, Erin Farrell, Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co., Grizzly’s Banjo Assault, Hogzilla, Jack Grace Band, The Doc Marshalls, Alex Battles’ Whisky Rebellion, Uncle Leon & The Alibis, and The Flanks.

This year’s festival will be book-ended by two nods to the classic roots from which Brooklyn country artists derive their vision. On Thursday at Buttermilk, The Y’all Stars, “New York City’s finest bluegrass group “will be followed by the CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree, a neighborhood institution where the full spectrum of New York City country fans come to jam and sing (or just drink) along to their favorite classic country tunes performed by an earnest chorus of amateurs.

The boot-scooting fun continues at Southpaw with two full evenings of rowdy twang and honky-tonk angels, hosted by Alex Battles and Lindy Loo. DJ Palms spin more country gold. Saturday kicks off with a 75th birthday tribute to Patsy Cline, who would have celebrated her birthday on September 8. Each day will feature contests for homemade pies.

Tickets will be on sale in advance through Ticketweb. Advance tickets are strongly recommended as the last Brooklyn Country Music show at Southpaw sold out.

For more, call 718-788-6297 or 718-230-0236. You can also visit www.brooklyncountrymusic.com.