November 5, 2026 • 7-11pm 

St Ann’s Church (157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY)

GA & VIP Tickets Available Here

A benefit concert featuring renowned singers interpreting music documented by Alan Lomax comes to St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights on November 5th

As the kick-off event of the Brooklyn Folk Festival, presented by our partner Jalopy Theatre, the benefit will also offer ticket buyers a discount code for the following three days of the festival.

NOTED ARTISTS Peter Stampfel (Fugs, Holy Modal Rounders), Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio), Catherine Russell (Steely Dan, David Bowie), Luther Dickinson (The Black Crowes, North Mississippi Allstars), Laura Cantrell (WFMU), Grace Bergere, and Stephanie Jenkins will perform their own unique takes on songs from the digital archive of the Association for Cultural Equity. 

FILM SCREENING. These performances will follow the New York premiere screening of Lomax’s rarely seen 1961 film “Ballads, Blues, and Bluegrass” featuring riveting performances by Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb, Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim, Jean Ritchie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Peter LaFarge, Ernie Mars and The Greenbriar Boys.  

ON DISPLAY will be selections from a collaborative exhibition with Haiti Cultural Exchange, featuring new work by Haitian artists responding to Lomax’s landmark 1930s recordings in Haiti. Newly remastered reissues from the Lomax Archive record label will be available for purchase, along with a silent auction featuring historic photographs and other special items.

SUPPORT ACE’S NEXT CHAPTER as it continues its decades-long mission to safeguard, research, and share the world's traditional music and dance, and to reconnect people and communities with their creative heritage. Your contribution helps put the collections of the Lomax Archive at the service of communities of origin, emerging cultural leaders, students and teachers at all levels, and the scientific community. 

ALL TICKET PROCEEDS go towards ACE’s restoration and digitization efforts, community partnerships, and public programming. Your support helps ensure that Lomax’s legacy and ACE’s work continue to reach and inspire a new generation of artists, audiences, researchers, and activists dedicated to sustaining and reimagining the world’s cultural traditions.  

SCHEDULE: 

VIP Reception - 6:00pm

GA Doors - 7:00pm 

Film Screening - 8:00pm 

Concert - 9:00pm TO 11pm