A Brooklyn County Fair Gowanus Hootenany!

 

When:Saturday September 5, 2009
Time:12pm – 9pm
Where:Bklyn Yard
388-400 Carroll St
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Cost:FREE! FREE! FREE!

After a long and exciting season, BKLYN Yard is closing its doors for the fall. But before they put away their bugspray, they are enjoying one more canal-side hurrah… A Brooklyn County Fair Gowanus Hootenany! Join the live music, farm fresh food, local artisan vendors, delicious edible treats and late-summer ales.

LOCAL TREATS
Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie
Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream
Red Jacket Orchards Apple Farmstand
Margarita Hernandez’s Famous Tacos & Huaraches
Halo Berlin Bratwurst

CRAFT FAIR (ETSY’s Best & Brightest)
JDavis Studio
Curious Urchin
AngeAtelier
The Hand of Fatima
Eternal Sunshine
Bonnie English
Katwise
MOytOyz
Vintage ArmyNavy
FluffFibers
Nyblaque
Up and Walking
BuntaBlock
Black Flag 317
Better Than Jam
Rae Studios
Gneiss Spice

FUN & GAMES
Contra Dancing
Fire Swallower
Stilt Walking
Jelly Bean Count Contest
“Most Delicious Fire-escape Produce” Contest
Ring Toss
Cotton Candy
FREE Popsicles for kids !

LIVE MUSIC / DJs
Cowboy Mark
The Woes
Honne Wells
Lark Davis
Bobby Bouzouki and Special Guest

SCHEDULE
Noon Doors open, spectacle begins!

2pm Contra dancing!
Polish up your heel-toes and skip-to-my-lous.

3pm Most Delicious Fire-Escape Produce contest.
Bring your best window-box tomatoes, your rooftop-raised squash, or any other I-live-in-a-tiny-apartment-but-I’m-still-a-farmer edibles. Best tasting entry wins unlimited drinks at the bar for the rest of the day!

3:30 The Jazzy Stylings of NED LOVE

4pm Bands
Footstomping! Handclapping!

7pm Free screening of O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?
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