Down Home Radio Show

The Brooklyn Folk Festival Approaches!

eli_smith@hotmail.com (Eli Smith) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:08:36 +0000

Hello everybody! Down Home Radio Show Host Eli Smith and The Jalopy Theatre are proud to announce the 5th Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival coming up on Friday, April 19th through Sunday, April 21st!Come out for three days of music at the Bell House, 149 7th Street, in the heart of Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood. The festival [...]

Brooklyn Folk Festival Preview Concert

eli_smith@hotmail.com (Eli Smith) — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:04:25 +0000

Brooklyn Folk Festival Preview Concert and Benefit Friday, March 1st @ the Jalopy Theatre 9pm: John Cohen (of the New Lost City Ramblers) with Walker Shepard and Eli Smith 10pm: Alex Battles 11pm: The Four o’Clock Flowers The proceeds from this concert benefit the production of the 2013 Brooklyn Folk Festival. Get a taste of [...]

Doc Watson Family Milestones

eli_smith@hotmail.com (Eli Smith) — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:47:50 +0000

Doc Watson’s daughter Nancy, Roy Andrade and others are producing an incredible 4 CD box set of recordings of Doc Watson and his family including Gaither Carlton. They need your support right now to produce it, with less than 2 days to go on their fund drive: Click Here for the Kickstarter link. This is [...]

From the Archives…

eli_smith@hotmail.com (Eli Smith) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:50:37 +0000

Hello everybody, Well, I’ve been swamped by some other projects – I’m finishing up organizing the 5th annual Brooklyn Folk Festival here in New York, working on my own banjo instructional manual and editing a book with the working title, “An Oral History of Folk Music in New York in the 1950′s and 60′s,” and [...]

Interview with John Cohen and Eli Smith

eli_smith@hotmail.com (Eli Smith) — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:02:13 +0000

Hello everybody, Here’s an interview with John Cohen and myself for the No Depression roots music magazine about our recent album “Old Man Below” by the Dust Busters out on the Smithsonian Folkways label. The interview was done by Chris Mateer who has the excellent Uprooted Music Revue blog site: http://www.uprootedmusicrevue.com. The Dust Busters and [...]

Interview with Boo Hanks and Dom Flemons

eli_smith@hotmail.com (Eli Smith) — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:32:42 +0000

On today’s show I speak with Piedmont blues guitarist and singer Boo Hanks and multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. They have a new album out on the Music Maker label entitled, “Buffalo Junction” and I caught up with them recently before their show at Joe’s Pub in Manhattan. I speak with Boo [...]

New Weekly Show at the Old Gaslight…

eli_smith@hotmail.com (Eli Smith) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:52:36 +0000

Hey Everybody, Ernie Vega – an awesome folk musician and friend of Down Home Radio – has started a brand new weekly show at 116 Macdougal St. (Btwn Bleecker and W. 3rd St.) in Greenwhich Village, NY, NY. This is the same room that used to be known in the 1960′s as the Gaslight Cafe, [...]

The Dust Busters CD Release Show… Sept. 6th…

eli_smith@hotmail.com (Eli Smith) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:36:38 +0000

Brand new on the Smithsonian Folkways label: “Old Man Below” CD Release Show – Thursday Sept. 6th at the Jalopy Theatre! With an opening performance by Blind Boy Paxton Details: Showtime 8:30pm Cover $10 Jalopy Theatre Brooklyn, NY www.Jalopy.biz

Washington Square Park Folk Fest 2012

eli_smith@hotmail.com (Eli Smith) — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:42:22 +0000

Come check out the festival – It’s free and open to the public, out in Washington Square Park in New York’s own Greenwhich Village! Saturday Sept. 15th 2pm Jackson Lynch – Blues and old-time singer, multi-instrumentalist 3pm Randy Burns – Songwriter 4pm Ian Link – Songwriter 5pm Stephanie Coleman – Old-time fiddler 6pm Banjorama – [...]

All the Way from America…

eli_smith@hotmail.com (Eli Smith) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:11:18 +0000

Hi everybody – here’s some information on a show I am hosting at the Culture Project- a really nice theater on Bleecker St. and Lafayette on Friday, August 3rd… IMPACT 2012 Festival at the Culture Project All the Way from America: A night of Woody Guthrie, Labor, Union and Anti-Corporate Songs – hosted by Eli [...]