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Brooklyn Country Music Festival

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Now in its fourth year, the Brooklyn Country Music Festival celebrates the twangier side of the borough of kings. Organizer Alex Battles of the band Whisky Rebellion and Deborah Evans Price, Nashville correspondent for Billboard, talk about the state of country music in New York.

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  • [1] Hank from Brooklyn September 04, 2007 - 05:55PM

    New York City has had a country scene for a long time. In the late 1990s, 9C frequently attracted the likes of Steve Earle, Jim Lauderdale, etc. Around that time and later, the Demolition String Band, Hang Dogs, Bruce Henderson, the 5 Chinese Brothers, Greg Garing, Amy Allison, the list goes on were playing country music in the East Village, at the Rodeo Bar, etc. years before the Brooklyn Country Music Festival. This isn't new.


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