Sounds at Sunset

Brooklyn Bridge Park - Pier 6, Brooklyn, NY 11201

‘Sounds at Sunset’ Presented and Produced by Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Brooklyn Bridge Park - Pier 6 Picnic Tables Friday, July 26 from 7pm - 9:30pm

Curated by Brooklyn Americana Music. 7pm The Maybelles 8pm Tyrone Cotton 8:45pm Mike Younger

FREE ALL AGES EVENT Jan Bell and her band The Maybelles are Independent Music Award winners. Three part harmony, country and Americana. Rima Fand on violin, Hilary Hawke banjo, and Tina Lama on upright bass. Tyrone Cotton folk, blues, soul, jazz and rock’n’roll. A fixture on the Louisville music scene for the past 30 years. His grandfather was a Baptist preacher, the Reverend Cleveland Roosevelt Williams, whose singing made him Cotton’s first musical hero. Other influences include Smokey Robinson, Guy Clark, and Sam Cooke, although he draws his greatest inspiration from Bob Dylan, of whom Cotton says, “He’s the mountain!” - 4 STARS Americana UK. Mike Younger is a seasoned recording artist and troubadour in the blues, folk, country traditions who started out as a street musician. He was ‘discovered’ busking in New Orleans by country legend Rodney Crowell. His latest album ‘Burning the Big Top Down’ was made in Memphis. Younger’s song ‘ Poisoned Rivers’ was a rallying call during his activism at Standing Rock, and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Now based in Nashville TN, a recent Nashville Scene Critics Pick, and he raises livestock with his lady on a small acreage and keeps bees. As Founder and Director of The Brooklyn Americana Music Festival now in its tenth year, Jan Bell is excited to bring a taste of the festival back to Pier 6, where her LGBTQ+ stage was Voted Best of Brooklyn (Empire State Awards) Cultural Event 2023.

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(Above) Hi Fi Indy Opening for Sierra Ferrell / John Platt's On Yiuyr Radar at Rockwood Music Hall NYC with Rima Fand and Tina Lama / Americana Fest with Megan Palmer at Dee's, Nashville TN.

(Above) Sunny's Brooklyn NY with Hilary Hawke & Tina Lama / Metamora Music Festival, IN / 

(Below) Story Inn, IN / Brooklyn Bridge Park NYC / Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn NYC with Pippa Thompson

 

 

Independent Music Awards, Lincoln Center

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Album Release Show at Barbes, Brooklyn NYC 2019.

From a coal-mining village in Yorkshire England, Jan Bell made her name as a songwriter in NYC. Over the last twenty years recording seven critically acclaimed albums made in New Orleans, Eureka Springs AR and Brooklyn NYC. Her band "The Maybelles” started out in The Ozarks as a duo with Melissa Carper. 

Along the way opening for Wanda Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Odetta, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. Independent Music Award for Best Alt. Country album. Nominee Best Concept album ‘Dream of the Miner’s Child’. 

 

“Maybe growing up in Nottinghamshire is what sets Jan Bell apart from the run of local lady folkies. Or maybe its the slide guitars, harmonicas, mandolins and banjos. Dark, old timey spareness......gorgeous ” - Chuck Eddy, The Village Voice

 

“Bell's music isn't strictly bluegrass, but her reworking of old-time country and jug-band blues is remarkably nuanced. It embodies the wide-open spirit of what has become an antic, hybrid genre.” - Edd Hurt, The Nashville Scene