“I’ve long thought it would be wonderful and extremely appropriate to do the show in Huntington, where Harry and Sandy lived and raised their family,” said Stuart Markus, the concert’s organizer and emcee. “Harry is still held in such beloved regard by residents of the town and public officials at all levels.”

Eighteen acts — comprised of nearly three dozen of Long Island’s top musicians and songwriters — will take to the stage that bears his name to honor the late Grammy Award-winning songwriter, humanitarian and anti-hunger activist. They’ll perform his breakthrough hit, “Taxi,” his best-known song “Cat’s in the Cradle” (which topped the charts in December 1974), fan favorites like “Flowers Are Red” and “Mr. Tanner,” and some of Chapin’s more obscure songs as well. Concertgoers are asked to bring donations of nonperishable food to support Long Island Cares, Inc., the regional food bank founded by Chapin in 1980.

“All the performers are pro-caliber full-time and part-time musicians who perform regularly at local venues and/or tour on the folk circuit,” Markus said. “Throughout the two decades that we’ve been presenting the show, I’ve always encouraged them to treat the songs as their own — however they imagine them. The results have been some very creative interpretations,” he added.

Besides Markus and his folk-rock harmony trio Gathering Time, this year’s roster of performers includes Akiva the Believer, Karen Bella, John Cardone, Roger Street Friedman, Grand Folk Railroad, Robin Greenstein, Lora Kendall, Mara Levine, Vicky Liotta, Debra Lynne & Lora Kendall, Media Crime, Judy Merrick, Miles & Mafale, Matthew Ponsot, Patricia Shih & Stephen Fricker, Robin Eve, Roger Silverberg, Talya Smilowitz, Christine Solimeno, Hank Stone, Martha Trachtenberg, Frank Walker, Lisa Ann Wharton, and Judith Zweiman & Duane Michael Tucker. Jen Chapin, Harry’s daughter and a touring artist in her own right, also will perform.

Long Island Cares’ staff and volunteers will be collecting donations of non-perishable food at a tent at the entrance to the Chapin Rainbow Stage and also selling t-shirts and Harry Chapin CDs, as well as distributing literature about the nonprofit organization’s programs and services. Concertgoers are advised to bring lawn chairs and blankets.

Where to View the ‘Just Wild About Harry’ Concert Online

For those are unable to attend the concert in-person, it will also be livestreamed via a number of social media channels that follow. Although the concert is set for 7 p.m. ET, viewers are advised to log on earlier since there may be a few pre-show interviews with performing artists and members of the Chapin family.

Harry Chapin Fans Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/954037953400184/

Harry Chapin Foundation YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/dFZjPTrpqLo

Harry Chapin Foundation Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/488328867019092/

Harry Chapin Memories Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/835691325191299/

Harry Chapin Music Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/812448574320945/

Hey Long Island, Do You Remember…? Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/889951243173302/

I Grew Up in Huntington Township NY USA 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/1731745810691338/

Just Wild About Harry (The Harry Chapin Tribute Show) Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/1495851031039195/

L.I. Fans & Friends of Folk Music Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/1029824552128240/

Long Island Cares Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1604518290389306/

Long Live Harry Chapin Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/849747593717608/

Editor’s Note: A public relations and strategic communications professional, as well as the longtime president of the Folk Music Society of Huntington, I have been helping to promote the annual “Just Wild About Harry” tribute concerts pro bono for many years.

I still have fond memories of Harry’s concerts. Yet as much as I appreciated him as a singer-songwriter who helped to forge my love of folk and folk-rock music, I so respected him for his activism, his community involvement, and his commitment to making this “A Better Place to Be.”

Prior to the evening concert on the park’s [Harry] Chapin Rainbow Stage, Michael Kornfeld, president of the Folk Music Society of Huntington and editor & publisher of AcousticMusicScene.com , conducts an on-stage conversational interview with the evening’s featured artists at 7:15 p.m. He also hosts a series of amplified showcases and song swaps from 2-5 p.m. near a canopy tent on the upper lawn area overlooking the stage. These will be preceded by an hour-long open mic hosted by singer-songwriter Toby Tobias, who runs the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM), an Acoustic Ally of FMSH, from 12-1 p.m. and Remembering Lois Morton: A Musical Tribute from 1-2 p.m.

From 1-2 p.m, a number of artists will perform and share their reflections on Lois Morton, the late Huntington-based singer-songwriter who delighted audiences throughout the New York metropolitan area and beyond for years with her abundant charm and humorous songs of social commentary on such subjects as cell phones, clutter, diets, psychotherapy, and road rage. Participants in this tribute will include Josie Bello, Kirsten Maxwell, Larry Moser, Richard Parr, Glen Roethel, Dave Anthony Setteducati, Linda Sussman, and others. Here’s a link to a remembrance piece about Lois Morton: https://acousticmusicscene.com/2020/12/20/lois-morton-a-witty-singer-songwriter-1933-2020/.

The complete schedule for the Huntington Folk Festival appears below:

12:00 Open Mic
1:00 Remembering Lois Morton: A Musical Tribute (performances and reflections by Josie Bello, Kirsten Maxwell, Larry Moser, Richard Parr, Glen Roethel, Dave Anthony Setteducati, Linda Sussman, and others)
2:00 Song Swap: Hank Stone and Bob Westcott
2:30 Us!
2:45 Drew Velting
3:00 Christine Sweeney
3:15 Brett Altman
3:30 Allison Leah
3:45 Sea Chanteys: The Royal Yard and Alan Short
4:15 Catherine Miles & Jay Mafale
4:30 The Levins
4:45 Scott Wolfson & Other Heroes
5:00 Dinner Break
7:15 On-Stage Conversation with Paula Cole and Sophie B. Hawkins
8:00 Evening Concert on the Chapin Rainbow Stage: Paula Cole & Sophie B. Hawkins

Festivalgoers are advised to bring lawn chairs and blankets and a picnic supper (or they can walk into Huntington Village and enjoy a meal at one of its many restaurants).

Although the Huntington Folk Festival is free, attendees are asked to bring donations of nonperishable food to support Long Island Cares, Inc., the regional food bank founded by Harry Chapin. July 16 marks the 41st anniversary of the late Huntington-based singer-songwriter, social activist and humanitarian’s tragic death on the Long Island Expressway, while this year is the 50th anniversary of the release of Chapin’s breakout hit, “Taxi.”

The Huntington Summer Arts Festival is produced by the Town of Huntington and presented by the Huntington Arts Council. Additional support is provided by Presenting Sponsor Canon U.S.A., with partial funding from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning.

This year’s concert will be a special one since that week will mark the 40th anniversary of Chapin’s tragic death on the Long Island Expressway in 1981 — on the day that he was supposed to perform on that very stage, since renamed for him. Several tribute show regulars were among the crowd in 1981 when what was supposed to be a joyous event turned into a vigil, Markus said.

“Harry is still so lovingly regarded in Long Island songwriter circles, both for his songwriting and anti-hunger activism,” Markus said. “Each year, the community comes together to, in effect, present the concert that he might have given, each putting their own interpretation on his songs. We’ve had some amazing arrangements, from folky to country, torch-song style to hard rock.”


The concert will also be a benefit for Long Island Cares, the Harry Chapin Food Bank. “The annual Harry Chapin tribute concert in Eisenhower Park is always a very special event for all of us at Long Island Cares because so many of Harry’s fans attend and are extremely supportive of Long Island Cares and the work we do to assist the more than 316,000 Long Islanders struggling with domestic hunger and high food insecurity,” said Paule Pachter, the nonprofit organization’s chief executive officer.

The concert is being co-promoted by the Folk Music Society of Huntington, of which Markus is a board member. This year’s show will be the 16th at the park and the 18th overall. Last year’s tribute streamed online only due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Besides Markus and Gathering Time, this year’s roster of performers includes newcomers ThemAgain, Roger Street Friedman, and Richard Parr, along with returning performers Patricia Shih, Robinson Treacher, Debra Lynne, Media Crime, Ed Ryan, Sid Cherry & Helen Schrier Pandal, Toby Tobias, Mike Barry, Folk Goddesses, Robin Greenstein, and Christine Solimeno, plus assorted side musicians.
The concert, for which attendees are advised to bring lawn chairs, will be held rain or shine, precluded only by thunderstorms. For more information, visit https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/1767/Parks-Recreation-Museums.

Editor’s Note: I am president of the Folk Music Society of Huntington and have been helping to promote the annual “Just Wild About Harry” tribute concerts for many years.

I first met Harry Chapin some 50 years ago at a Long island rally for the United Farm Workers during the lettuce and grape boycott of the early 1970s. I was 12-years old at the time and somewhere, amid all my papers, is a newspaper photo of Harry clasping my hand and that of Richard Chavez, brother of the late UFW leader Cesar Chavez, that day. Over the course of the next decade, I saw Harry many times in concert, at various events, and around town with his wife, Sandy. While spending a college semester abroad in London, England during the winter and spring of 1981, I was Harry’s guest at what turned out to be his last concerts in England. I still have fond memories of Harry’s concerts. Yet as much as I appreciated Harry Chapin as a singer-songwriter who helped to forge my love of folk and folk-rock music, I so respected him for his activism, his community involvement and his commitment to making this “A Better Place to Be.” Harry’s story songs, social consciousness and concern for ordinary people were very much in keeping with the longstanding traditions of folk music and the spirit of the folk community.

As the credits roll at the end of the recent documentary Harry Chapin: When In Doubt Do Something, I can be seen briefly singing Harry’s song “Circle” — along with others, including Harry’s brother Tom and daughter Jen — near the stage that bears his name at Eisenhower Park.

Brand was a major player on the folk scene in New York (and beyond) – not only as an energetic, prolific and versatile performing and recording artist, but also as host of the world’s longest continuously running weekly radio show with a single host — as confirmed by Guinness Book of World Records.

Beginning in 1945 and for more than 70 years, Brand hosted Folksong Festival on WNYC, a public radio station – and he did so weekly without any compensation. His last show – a mix of music and conversation, punctuated with humor — aired on Sept. 24. The recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award in 1995 for ‘more than 50 years of service to the music and messages of folk performers and fans across the world,” Brand played a diverse array of music and engaged in conversations with many of the artists who performed and recorded the songs on his show. Woody Guthrie (who he met around 1939 and to whom he paid tribute in a 2001 PBS documentary entitled Woody & Me that he wrote, directed and hosted) was one of his early guests. Among the other musical luminaries who appeared on Folksong Festival over the years were Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Harry Chapin (with whom I also saw him perform in concert at my alma mater, Huntington High School), Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Lead Belly Joni Mitchell, Phil Ochs, Odetta, Tom Paxton, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Pete Seeger (with whom he worked on the People’s Songs newsletter), and Suzanne Vega.

Brand was blacklisted in 1950 in Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio & Television, although he was never called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He continued to invite politically active artists onto his radio show.

Through the years, Brand recorded hundreds of songs – his own compositions and those of others — on some 100 albums. These ranged from collections of bawdy ballads to political campaign songs, drinking songs, sea shanties, vaudeville numbers and children’s songs, among others. His composition “Something to Sing About [This Land of Ours]” is viewed as an unofficial national anthem in Canada.

He also hosted the weekly Canadian children’s television series Let’s Sing Out that aired on CBC during the 1960s and featured such then-emerging talents as Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot, and was part of an advisory panel that created Sesame Street. Brand believed he was the namesake for the popular PBS children’s series’ character Oscar the Grouch. He also hosted the National Public Radio program Voices in the Wind during the 1970s, a top-rated Canadian show called Brand New Scene, and was host and co-producer of American Odyssey on New York’s WNET Channel 13, as well as a couple of children’s TV shows stateside. He also was engaged in writing for dozens of documentary films for which he won numerous accolades and awards; wrote and composed for and/or appeared in hundreds of television commercials; and authored a number of books and music manuals.

The curator of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York, Brand also saw his songs covered by others. Doris Day’s rendition of “A Guy is a Guy,” Brand’s reworking of an old English pub song, was a #1 hit on the Billboard chart in 1952.]. He also wrote songs for the Broadway musicals A Joyful Noise and The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N.

Along with David Amram and the late Theodore Bikel, Brand was part of the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA)’s first annual Wisdom of the Elders panel discussion in 2010.

Born Feb. 7, 1920 on wheat farm near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Brand moved with his family to Minneapolis, MN as a youngster and later to Chicago, before settling in Brooklyn, NY where he graduated from Erasmus Hall High School and Brooklyn College. While growing up, he aspired to be a writer and started writing professionally – for radio and television — while still in high school. Although he attended Brooklyn College to learn writing and journalism, he wound up earning a degree in psychology since those were the only courses in which he reportedly earned A’s. After a stint in the U.S. Army, he moved to NYC’s Greenwich Village and immersed himself in its then-burgeoning music scene during the 1940s American folk music revival.

Brand leaves behind his wife Karen and their son Jordan, three other children from a previous marriage — Jeannie, Eric (with whom I graduated from Stony Brook University) and James, and nine grandchildren.

I wasn’t at Max Yasgur’s Farm in 1969 when Richie Havens impressed throngs of people at the Woodstock festival. I was just a youngster then. But I did get to hear him up close and personal in the late 1970s at my alma mater, Huntington High School, in Huntington, New York. He was performing in the auditorium, along with Harry Chapin, at one of the late singer-songwriter’s many benefit concerts. Richie joined his fellow Brooklyn NY-born folksinger in heaven or wherever kindhearted gentle souls go, on April 22, after suffering a heart attack at home in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was 72.

Although my memories of that concert some 35 or so years ago have faded a bit, Richie Havens became a favorite artist of mine at that time, and he — and Harry — helped to forge my lifelong love of folk music. Through the years, I added most of Richie Havens’ albums to my collection, mostly on vinyl. And I had the pleasure of seeing him in concert a number of times and of speaking with him on several occasions. I last saw him a few years ago at an outdoor concert on Governor’s Island in New York City. An engaging performer, he really knew how to connect with an audience.

The eldest of nine children, Richard P. Havens began singing doo-wop on Brooklyn street corners at the age of 12, before picking up a guitar in his 20s after discovering and immersing himself in New York’s Greenwich Village folk scene. He forged a reputation playing the coffeehouses and nightclubs there and soon attracted the attention of folk impresario Albert Grossman, Bob Dylan’s manager, who helped him secure a record deal with Verve Forecast, which released his famed breakout album, Mixed Bag, in 1967. That album, which was preceded by two more obscure, independently released ones, included “Handsome Johnny,” an anti-war anthem that he wrote with actor Louis Gossett Jr, and covers of Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman” and Gordon Lightfoot’s “Follow.”

Before the decade was out, he would release five more albums, including 1968’s Something Else Again, his first to hit the Billboard chart. However, it was his live performances that helped to cement his reputation and bring him much acclaim – notably his stirring opening set at Woodstock, which featured his encore performance of “Freedom,” an improvisational take on the old spiritual “Motherless Child.”

Buoyed by the accolades he received at Woodstock, Havens launched his own record label, Stormy Forest, and released two albums in 1970, Stonehenge and Alarm Clock. The latter recording, which featured his version of George Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun” became his first album to make it into Billboard’s Top 30. He released several more albums on his own label during the 1970s.

An ardent champion of environmental causes, Richie Havens began to devote time and effort to educating young people about ecology – first through co-founding an oceanographic children’s museum on City Island in the Bronx and later through establishing The Natural Guard to help youngsters realize, though hands-on activities, the positive changes they can make for the environment. (It’s ironic that he died on Earth Day).

Havens continued actively performing and touring throughout the 1980s and 1990s and also experienced some success as a commercial jingle writer and performer. He performed at the inauguration of President Clinton in 1993 and at a Tibetan Freedom Concert that attracted more than 100,000 people in 1999. The following year, he published an autobiography entitled They Can’t Hide Us Anymore (co-written with Steve Davidowitz). In the years that followed, he continued to release albums, perform in concert, and also appeared in a number of films.

The National Music Council awarded Havens the American Eagle Award for being an important part of America’s musical heritage in 2003, and he was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame three years later. In June 2009, it was a delight to see and hear him perform at the Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival. Less than two months earlier, he had taken part in a fundraising concert in New York City in honor of folk icon and Clearwater founder Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday. Havens stopped touring just over a year ago, citing health concerns.

Richie, it is us who were blessed by your presence — both as an artist and as a caring person. You were indeed a kindhearted and gentle soul, whose ageless music will live on and be enjoyed by many for generations to come.

Harry’s daughter Jen, his brothers Tom and Steve, his nieces The Chapin Sisters, members of his band, and others take part in “Harry Chapin: A Celebration in Song” on the Chapin Rainbow Stage at Huntington, New York’s Heckscher Park (located off Route 25A in Huntington Village) on the 16th at 8:30 p.m.. The concert — a collaborative effort of the Huntington Arts Council, Long Island Cares, the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Town of Huntington — will be preceded by a re-dedication of the stage. Chapin and his family lived in Huntington Bay, and the troubadour and his wife, Sandy, were very active in the community.

On Monday, July 18, some two-dozen Long Island artists who are “Just Wild About Harry” will perform 18 of his story songs for a cause to which he dedicated himself — eradicating hunger — during a 7:30 p.m. concert at the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre in East Meadow’s Eisenhower Park (located off Merrick and Stewart Avenues). Chapin, 38, died in a Long Island Expressway crash while en route to perform a free concert at the park. The annual concert there is organized by Stuart Markus, a Long Island-based singer-songwriter. Besides his folk harmony trio Gathering Time, artists slated to perform include Doc Butler & JC Cobb, Grand Folk Railroad, Josh Joffen, Kendall & Korb, Cecilia Kirtland & Robin Greenstein, Doug Kwartler, Debra Lynne & Chris Tursi, MediaCrime, Rough Folk, Ed Ryan, Russ Seeger, Patricia Shih, Christine Solimeno, Martha Trachtenberg, Frank Walker and Judith Zweiman.

Concertgoers are asked to bring their own chairs/blankets and canned goods for Long Island Cares – The Harry Chapin Food Bank to both free concerts. Long Island Cares is a nonprofit organization launched by Chapin the year before he died. While at the park concerts, attendees also will have an opportunity to pick up postcards to be sent to the U.S. Postal Service’s Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee expressing support for a commemorative stamp in honor of Harry Chapin. Postcards also may be obtained through Long Island Cares by contacting Michael Haynes at mhaynes [at] licares.org.

“Twenty-nine years after Harry Chapin’s death, the need to fight hunger is still as urgent as ever,” says Stuart Markus, a LI-based singer-songwriter who has been organizing Harry Chapin tribute concerts on Long Island for seven years. Although the Aug. 9 concert is free, guests are encouraged to bring canned goods and other non-perishable food items for distribution to needy Long Islanders through Long Island Cares, a food bank founded by Chapin in 1980 that works to relieve hunger on Long Island. Over the years, the concerts have raised about three tons of food and several thousand dollars for the nonprofit organization.

Chapin, who resided in Huntington Bay, was killed in a car accident on the Long Island Expressway on his way to perform a free concert at that same stage in July 1981. His music and his giving, community spirit have lived on, and the concert venue has been renamed the Harry Chapin Lakeside Stage in his honor.

This year’s concert will include a ceremony during which Long Island Cares Director Paule Pachter will present a special commemorative plaque to Nassau County for installation near the stage. Chapin’s widow, Sandy, and daughter Jen, herself a touring singer-songwriter, are expected to attend the 7 p.m. unveiling.

More than 3,000 people, on average, have attended the Eisenhower Park concerts during the past five years, according to Markus, who anticipates another good showing this year. Entitled “Just Wild About Harry,” the concert, set to begin at 7:30 p.m., will include 18 of Chapin’s story songs — ranging from hits like “Cat’s In the Cradle” and “Taxi” to lesser-known numbers like “Sunday Morning Sunshine” and “Jubilation.” Besides Markus, artists slated to perform include Hillary Foxsong, Joe Iadanza, Doc Butler & JC Cob, Lisa Itts, Josh Joffen, Debra Lynne & Chris Tursi, Russ Seeger, MediaCrime, Christine Solimeno, Frank Walker, Kenny Forgione, Hank Stone, Judith Zweiman, Martha Trachtenberg & Andy Huenerberg, Cecilia Kirtland, and Kendall & Korb.

In some cases the performers have chosen their own songs; in others Markus suggested them, but the performers have carte blanche with respect to interpretation. “The results have been some really creative treatments and performances,” adds Markus.

Guests should bring their own lawn chairs or picnic blankets to the park, which is located off Merrick and Stewart Avenues in East Meadow. The event is scheduled rain or shine, barring lightning storms. For more information about summer concerts and other events, call (516) 572-0200.

Detailed listings for nearly 200 concerts, festivals, open mics, jam sessions and musical workshops slated to take place during July and August in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties appear in this installment of AcousticMusicScene.com’s Long Island AcoustiCalendar.

AcousticMusicScene.com is pleased to be hosting unplugged showcases featuring artists from LI and the Hudson Valley area during the Huntington Folk Festival at Heckscher Park on Saturday afternoon, August 1, as well as late-night song swaps featuring artists from New York and beyond during the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 23-26, on Dodds Farm in Hillsdale, New York.

Wednesday, 7/1

Folk Open Sing, sponsored by the Good Coffeehouse and the Pinewoods –Folk Music Society of New York, Ethical Cultural Society building (basement), 53 Prospect Park West (near 2nd Street), Brooklyn. For information, call 718-636-6341.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Open Mic Night presented by the Long Island Fingerstyle Guitar Club, Westbury Friends Meeting House, 550 Post Avenue, Westbury. (www.lifgc.com). 8-10 p.m. Snacks and beverages will be served. $10 suggested donation; free for club members.

Folk Open Sing, sponsored by the Good Coffeehouse and the Pinewoods –Folk Music Society of New York, Ethical Cultural Society building (basement), 53 Prospect Park West (near 2nd Street), Brooklyn. For information, call Alison Kelley, 718-636-6341.

Return to the Dream – an acoustic quartet featuring Martha Trachtenberg, Tom Griffith, Diane Garisto and Andy Huenerberg performs as part of the new, weekly Picnic Supper Concerts series presented by the Greater Port Jefferson-Northern Brookhaven Arts Council. Harborside Park on the water, next to the Port Jefferson Village Center, 101 East Broadway, Port Jefferson. (www.gpjac.org). 30-8 p.m. Free. Bring blankets or chairs.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 7/2

Acoustic Thursdays, hosted by Dave Drew, Lefty’s Candlelight Bar & Grill, 543 W. Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst. 631-225-5526. 8 p.m.

Michael Daves, NYC-based bluegrass singer and guitarist, who hails from Georgia, plays the Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 cover.

Strings n’ Things Open Mic Night, presented by the Smithtown Township Arts Council, at the Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, Smithtown. (www.stacarts.org). 631-862-6575. 8-10:30 p.m. Sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m. Free.

Nora Jane Struthers, Americana-style singer-songwriter, Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214.10 p.m.

Friday, 7/3

Acoustic Long Island presents its Fourth Annual Summer Concert on the lawn outside the Deepwells Mansion, featuring up-and-coming singer-songwriters Tim Blane, Liz Longley, Andrew Fortier and Mieka Pauley. Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection), St. James. 7-10 p.m. Bring lawn chairs. Free.

Annie Mark, LI-based singer-songwriter, performs as part of the “Happenings on Main Street” series near the village park in Northport. (www.northportarts.org). 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Saturday, 7/4

Happy Independence Day!

Sunday, 7/5

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Sunday Night Sinner’s Club, featuring folk and country music, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737.

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarist plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 7/6

Open Mic with Dave March, Once & For All, 8 East Main Street, Patchogue. 631-447-0519. 8 p.m.

Tuesday, 7/7

Brasil Guitar Duo, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Freedy Johnston, singer-songwriter, The Stephen Talkhouse, 161 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3117. 8 p.m. $15; $25.

Buddy Merriam & Back Roads, LI bluegrass stalwarts, Checkmate Inn, North Country Road, Setauket. 631-751-9240. 9:30 p.m.

Open Mic, Brickhouse Brewery, 67 West Main Street, Patchogue. 9 p.m.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8 p.m.

Open Mic, Napper Tandy’s Irish Pub, 275 Route 25A, Miller Place. 8 p.m. to midnight.

Wednesday, 7/8

Acoustic Long Island features an hour-long open mic, followed by a featured artist TBA, Deepwells Mansion, Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection), St. James. (www.acousticlongisland.com). 8 p.m. Free.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

The Tobacco Roadies (featuring Bob Westcott) perform as part of the new, weekly Picnic Supper Concerts series presented by the Greater Port Jefferson-Northern Brookhaven Arts Council at Harborside Park on the water, next to the Port Jefferson Village Center, 101 East Broadway, Port Jefferson. (www.gpjac.org). 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Bring blankets or chairs.

Thursday, 7/9

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 8 p.m. 631-264-0564.

Acoustic Thursdays, hosted by Dave Drew, and featuring local performers Lewd Buddha, Tami Rac, Roger Silverberg and Pete Manalakis, and Phil Kennelty at Lefty’s Candlelight Bar & Grill, 543 W. Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst. 631-225-5526. 8 p.m. No cover.

Green Palate Experience Open Mic Night, an evening of music and poetry hosted by talented singer-songwriter and percussive fingerstyle guitarist Joe Iadanza, with a featured performance by RJ Cowdery, a Columbus, Ohio-based singer-songwriter and Grassy Hill/Kerrville New Folk Winner, Cold Spring Harbor Public Library, Main Street (Route 25A), Cold Spring Harbor. 6:30-9:30 p.m. $5 admission includes healthy snacks.

Old Time Jam with Zot’s Dream (jug music featuring banjos, washboard, washtub bass, tin-can drums, etc), Freddy’s Back Room, 485 Dean Street at Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. to midnight.

Traditional Irish Session, Maguire’s Public House, 54-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens. 9:30 p.m. 718-429-9426.

Friday, 7/10

Judy Collins, The Stephen Talkhouse, 161 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3117. 7 p.m. $100; $115.

Caroline Doctorow, roots-oriented, LI-based singer-songwriter, performs at Peconic Bay Winery, 31320 Main Road, Cutchogue. 5:30 p.m.

Great South Bay Music Festival features American rock, jam, folk, blues and brews. Among the 40 acts on three stages over the weekend are Tom Paxton, Sonny Landreth, Sonya Kitchell, Ryan Montbleau and Pete Francis with Barefoot Truth, as well as a number of LI-based artist, a Kidzone, artisans and craftspeople, rides and a food court. Shorefront Park, Patchogue. For tickets and more information, visit www.greatsouthbaymusicfestival.com.

Caleb Hawley, a now New York-based singer-songwriter, performs for the Grounds and Sounds Café at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stony Brook, 380 Nicolls Road, Setauket. 8:45 p.m. concert is preceded by an open mic at 8 p.m., for which sign-up starts at 7:30 p.m. (www.groundsandsounds.org). $10.

The Moonlighters interweave vocal harmonies with guitar and ukulele at Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Saturday, 7/11

Great South Bay Music Festival continues at Shorefront Park in Patchogue. See 7/10 listing.

Danny Kalb Trio, fronted by the master guitarist and founder of the Blues Project, plays Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 8 p.m. $10 cover.

Larry Moser and Mary Nagin sing and play old-time music under the tree behind the Noon Inn at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, 1303 Round Swamp Road (Exit 48 of the Long Island Expressway), Old Bethpage. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Museum admission: $ $7 for seniors and children ages 5-12.

Saturday Night Jam, Sunny’s, 253 Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.

Sonic Underground House Concert in Stony Brook features Jude Johnstone (a Nashville songwriter) and Lucky 13 (talented LI-based acoustic trio comprised of Marci Geller, Cathy Kreger and Susan DeVita). 7 p.m. Call 631-420-4317 for reservations and directions.

Sunday, 7/12

Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men, The Stephen Talkhouse, 161 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3117. 7 p.m. $40; $55.

Fourteen Feet, New York-based roots rock outfit, plays acoustic at RS Jones, 153 Merrick Avenue, Merrick. 7:30 p.m.

Larry Moser and Mary Nagin sing and play old-time music under the tree behind the Noon Inn at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, 1303 Round Swamp Road (Exit 48 of the Long Island Expressway), Old Bethpage. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Museum admission: $ $7 for seniors and children ages 5-12.

Great South Bay Music Festival continues at Shorefront Park in Patchogue. See 7/10 listing.

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarist plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 7/13

“Music from the Hive” singer-songwriter series, Mirelle’s Restaurant, 170 Post Avenue. Westbury. 8 p.m.

Open Mic with Dave March, Once & For All, 8 E. Main Street, Patchogue. 631-447-0519. 8 p.m.

Tuesday, 7/14

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8 p.m.

Wednesday, 7/15

Acoustic Long Island features an hour-long open mic, followed by a featured artist TBA, Deepwells Mansion, Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection), St. James. (www.acousticlongisland.com). 8 p.m. Free.

Gathering Time – folk harmony trio featuring Glen Roethel, Stuart Markus and Hillary Foxsong — performs a spirited blend of acoustic originals and stylistic interpretations of choice covers with wonderful three-part harmonies as part of the new, weekly Picnic Supper Concerts series presented by the Greater Port Jefferson-Northern Brookhaven Arts Council. Harborside Park on the water, next to the Port Jefferson Village Center, 101 East Broadway, Port Jefferson. (www.gpjac.org). 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Bring blankets or chairs.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 7/16

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 631-264-0564. 8 p.m.

Acoustic Thursdays, hosted by Dave Drew, and featuring local performers Valerie Griggs, Simply Stated, Jaclyn Shaw and Otan Vargas, at Lefty’s Candlelight Bar & Grill, 543 W. Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst. 631-225-5526. 8 p.m. No cover.

Carsie Blanton, Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter, plays the Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9 p.m. $10 cover.

Gathering Time, folk-rock harmony trio featuring Glen Roethel, Stuart Markus and Hillary Foxsong, performs a spirited blend of acoustic originals and stylistic interpretations of choice covers with wonderful three-part harmonies, at Great Neck’s Bond Street Promenade, as part of a street fair sponsored by the business improvement district. 5:30 p.m.

Devon Sproule, Virginia-based singer-songwriter, singer-songwriter, plays the Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 10:30 p.m. $10 cover

Strings n’ Things Open Mic Night, presented by the Smithtown Township Arts Council, at the Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, Smithtown. (www.stacarts.org). 631-862-6575. 8-10:30 p.m. Sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m. Free.

Traditional Irish Session, Maguire’s Public House, 54-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens. 9:30 p.m. 718-429-9426.

Friday, 7/17

Gathering Time, folk-rock harmony trio featuring Glen Roethel, Stuart Markus and Hillary Foxsong, presents “The Great Folk-Rock Revival & Sing-Along Show” — celebrating the music of the Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joni Mitchell and other classic artists of the folk-rock era — at Eisenhower Park’s Harry Chapin Lakeside Theater, Merrick and Stewart Avenues, East Meadow. 7:30 p.m. Free. Bring blankets or lawn chairs and arrive early for best seating.

Matuto plays original music inspired by northeaster Brazilian rhythms and American folk music at Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 10 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Miller’s Crossing, LI-based bluegrass band, Grey Horse Tavern, 291 Bayport Avenue, Bayport. 631-472-1868. 8:30 p.m.

Phil Minissale Trio, a young, up-and-coming, LI-based blues and roots-oriented singer-songwriter and finger-pickin’ good guitarist, and friends play Once & For All, 8 East Main Street, Patchogue. 631-447-0519. 9:30 p.m. This is Phil’s last scheduled LI club appearance before he heads off to the Republic of Georgia, where he will be the sole American artist performing in the Tibilisi Independent Music Festival.

The Vienna Teng Trio, California-based singer-songwriter and her band play melodic pop with folk sensibilities, Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach. (www.whbpac.org). 631-288-1500. 8:30 p.m. $15-$35.

Saturday, 7/18

Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts perform a lively, raucous blend of jug band, old-time, Tin Pan Alley, early jazz and blues music at Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 10 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Jen Chapin brings her jazz-tinged urban folk sound to the stage named after her late father in her former hometown. Local singer-songwriter and keyboardist John Flor, who writes about love, relationships and the occasional superstar, opens the concert, which is part of the Huntington Summer Arts Festival. Chapin Rainbow Stage at Heckscher Park, Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue, Huntington. (www.huntingtonarts.org). 8:30 p.m. Free. Bring blankets or lawn chairs.

Iris DeMent, The Stephen Talkhouse, 161 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3117. 7 p.m. $50; $65.

Long Island Blues Festival, now in its 1lth year, features lots of down home blues and other music on three stages (two outdoors plus the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall) behind East Main Street and Peconic Avenue, along the Peconic River in downtown Riverhead today and Sunday. Artists of note include Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys, former Long Island Little Toby Walker, David Jacobs-Strain, and up-and-coming LI-based talent Phil Minissale, plus such local artists as Ahmad Ali, Ken “The Rocket” Korb, Bruce MacDonald, and Bob Westcott & the Daydreamers. A two-day bracelet is $15; daily admission is $10; children ages 12 and under admitted free. For performance schedules and more information, visit www.riverblues.org.

Larry Moser and Mary Nagin sing and play old-time music at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum, 245 Old Walt Whitman Road, Melville. 631-427-5240. 12-4 p.m.

Saturday Night Jam, Sunny’s, 253 Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.

Sunday, 7/19

Hungrytown, a Vermont-based, husband & wife retro-folk duo performs as part of the West Porch Beech Tree Concert Series at Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury. 3 p.m.

Long Island Blues Festival continues. Fireworks follow tonight’s final performance. See 7/18 listing for more details or visit www.riverblues.org.

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Sunday Night Sinner’s Club, featuring folk and country music, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737.

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarist plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 7/20

Open Mic with Dave March, Once & For All, 8 E. Main Street, Patchogue. 631-447-0519. 8 p.m.

Tuesday, 7/21

Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange monthly in-the-round hosted by Rebecca Pronsky, features Rod Alonzo, Rebecca Loebe (a talented young singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia) and Shannon Wurst (from Fayetteville, Arkansas), at Union Hall, 702 Union Street at Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn. 8 p.m. 718-638-4400. No cover.

Wednesday, 7/22

Acoustic Long Island features an hour-long open mic, followed by a featured artist TBA, Deepwells Mansion, Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection), St. James. 8 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.

5th Annual BayFest in Babylon Village features music by Philadelphia-based, father-and-son blues and roots duo Beaucoup Blue. Also slated to perform are Boston-based, inventive world musicians Guy Mendilow Band and LI’s own The Red River Ramblers, plus family fun and activities, at the Babylon Village Pool. (www.babylonvillagearts.org). 6-9:30 p.m. $5.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 7/23

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 8 p.m. 631-264-0564.

Acoustic Thursdays, hosted by Dave Drew, and featuring Terrence Escalera, Chronology and more, at Lefty’s Candlelight Bar & Grill, 543 W. Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst. 631-225-5526. 8 p.m. No cover.

Buckwheat Zydeco, The Stephen Talkhouse, 161 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3117. 8 p.m. $35.

Caroline Doctorow, roots-oriented, LI-based singer-songwriter, performs as part of the Westhampton Beach Concerts on the Green series, Main Street, Westhampton Beach. 6:30 p.m.

Hal Ketchum, a noted songwriter and a fine singer in his own right, performs at the YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore.
(www.boultoncenter.org). 631-969-1101. 8 p.m. $40; $35 for members.

Pharoah’s Daughter, fronted by Basya Schechter, presents an evening of swirling Hasidic chants, Mizrahi and Sephardic folk-rock, and spiritual stylings filtered through percussion, flute, strings and (no, it’s not entirely acoustic) electronica, as part of the Huntington Summer Arts Festival. Chapin Rainbow Stage at Heckscher Park, Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue, Huntington. (www.huntingtonarts.org). 8:30 p.m. Free. Bring blankets or lawn chairs.

Traditional Irish Session, Maguire’s Public House, 54-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens. 9:30 p.m. 718-429-9426.

Friday, 7/24

Miller’s Crossing, LI-based bluegrass band, Grey Horse Tavern, 291 Bayport Avenue, Bayport. 631-472-1868. 8:30 p.m.

Miss Tess & the Bon Ton Parade, Genre-bending, young Boston-based performer who was named “Outstanding Folk Artist of the Year” in the Boston Music Awards last December, performs with her band at the Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 10 p.m.

Saturday, 7/25

Art in the Park, an annual outdoor festival presented by the Northport Arts Coalition features art, music and poetry from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Local acoustic artists performing 20-minute sets between 1 and 3:30 p.m. include Andrea Cetlin, Kenny Baum, Princess Peapod (husband-and-wife duo of Michele Frimmer and Dave Cook), banjo player Maria Fairchild, Denise Romas and Lora Kendall. Northport Village Park, at the foot of Main Street, near the harbor, in Northport. Free.

Saturday Night Jam, Sunny’s, 253 Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.

Sunday, 7/26

Joan Baez, Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach. (www.whbpac.org). 631-288-1500. 8:30 p.m. Sold out.

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Monday, 7/27

Buddy Merriam and Back Roads, Long Island-based bluegrass stalwarts, Mary Jane Davies Green, Plandome Road, Manhasset. 7:30 p.m. Free. Bring lawn chairs.

Open Mic with Dave March, Once & For All, 8 E. Main Street, Patchogue. 631-447-0519. 8 p.m.

Tuesday, 7/28

Gathering Time, folk-rock harmony trio featuring Glen Roethel, Stuart Markus and Hillary Foxsong, performs a spirited blend of acoustic originals and stylistic interpretations of choice covers with wonderful three-part harmonies during the Brown Bag Concert series, presented by the Islip Arts Council and the Bay Shore Business Improvement District, at Martin Luther King Park, Main Street, Bay Shore. 12:30 p.m. Free.

Wednesday, 7/29

Acoustic Long Island features an hour-long open mic, followed by a featured artist TBA, Deepwells Mansion, Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection), St. James. 8 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at the Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 7/30

Acoustic Thursdays, hosted by Dave Drew, and featuring local performers Carl Leeds, Corrientes and more, at Lefty’s Candlelight Bar & Grill, 543 W. Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst. 631-225-5526. 8 p.m. No cover.

Doc Marshalls, a raucous, Brooklyn-based honky-tonk roots band, whose repertoire includes Cajun and country numbers, performs as part of the Huntington Summer Arts Festival. Chapin Rainbow Stage at Heckscher Park, Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue, Huntington. (www.huntingtonarts.org). 8:30 p.m. Free. Bring blankets or lawn chairs.

Friday, 7/31

Joe Iadanza, a LI-based singer-songwriter and guitarist with a strikingly unusual tenor voice and a growing repertoire of smart, witty, warm, and stick-in-your-ear humable songs, whose music spans the genres of folk, rock, roots and Americana, at times harkening back to a bygone era with its European jazz feel, performs for Pagan Place House Concerts in Huntington Station. 8 Call 631-420-4317 for reservations and directions.

Princess Peapod, the gifted husband-and-wife duo of Michele Frimmer and Dave Cook, perform as part of the “Happenings on Main Street” series near the village park in Northport. (www.northportarts.org). 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Saturday, 8/1

Fourth Annual Huntington Folk Festival, co-presented by the Huntington Arts Council and the Folk Music Society of Huntington, features 8:30 p.m. headline performance by Peter Rowan (bluegrass) with the harmonizing Rowan Brothers (Chris and Lorin)both backing and opening for him on the Chapin Rainbow Stage. The afternoon (3-6 p.m.) will feature instrumental workshops, an open jam/song swap, and unplugged music showcases hosted by AcousticMusicScene.com and Acoustic Live! in New York City and Beyond. AcousticMusicScene.com will present short showcases by artists from Long Island and the Hudson Valley including David Bailey, Kelly Flint, Gathering Time, Joe Iadanza, Princess Peapod, Glen Roethel, Denise Romas, Hank Stone and Todd Evans, and The YaYas. Heckscher Park, Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue, Huntington. (www.fmshny.org). 3-11 p.m. Bring blankets or lawn chairs.

Open Mic Night hosted by singer-songwriter Liza Coppola, at the Custer Institute, 1115 Main Bayview Road, Southold. (www.custerobservatory.org). 631-765-2626. 7-10 p.m.
Sunday, 8/2

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Sunday Night Sinner’s Club, featuring folk and country music, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737.

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarist plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 8/3

Island Songwriters Showcase monthly workshop at Five Town College (Room 217), Burr’s Lane, Dix Hills. (www.islandsongwriters.org). 8-11 p.m. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m.

Open Mic with Dave March, Once & For All, 8 East Main Street, Patchogue. 631-447-0519. 8 p.m.

Tuesday, 8/4

Buddy Merriam & Back Roads, LI bluegrass stalwarts, Checkmate Inn, North Country Road, Setauket. 631-751-9240. 9:30 p.m.

Open Mic, Brickhouse Brewery, 67 West Main Street, Patchogue. 9 p.m.

Open Mic, Napper Tandy’s Irish Pub, 275 Route 25A, Miller Place. 8 p.m. to midnight.

Princess Peapod, the gifted husband-and-wife duo of Michele Frimmer and Dave Cook, perform during Northport Harbor Family Night, corner of Main Street and Woodbine Avenue, near the village park, in Northport.6:45-7:30 p.m. Free.

Wednesday, 8/5

Acoustic Long Island features an hour-long open mic, followed by a featured artist TBA, Deepwells Mansion, Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection), St. James. 8 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Princess Peapod, a gifted, LI-based husband-and-wife duo (Michele Frimmer and Dave Cook), performs as part of the new, weekly Picnic Supper Concerts series presented by the Greater Port Jefferson-Northern Brookhaven Arts Council. Harborside Park on the water, next to the Port Jefferson Village Center, 101 East Broadway, Port Jefferson. (www.gpjac.org). 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Bring blankets or chairs.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 8/6

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 8 p.m. 631-264-0564.

Acoustic Thursdays, hosted by Dave Drew and featuring local performers Hank Stone, Todd Evans and more, Lefty’s Candlelight Bar & Grill, 543 W. Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst. 631-225-5526. 8 p.m. No cover.

A pair of duos: May Erlewine & Seth Bernard ( Michigan-based songwriters) and
Mike & Ruthy (rootsy, banjo and fiddle-slinging husband-and-wife duo from the Hudson Valley) play the Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9 and 10:30 p.m., respectively. $10 cover.

Old Time Jam with Zot’s Dream (jug music featuring banjos, washboard, washtub bass, tin-can drums, etc), Freddy’s Back Room, 485 Dean Street at Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. to midnight.

Strings n’ Things Open Mic Night, presented by the Smithtown Township Arts Council, at the Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, Smithtown. (www.stacarts.org). 631-862-6575. 8-10:30 p.m. Sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m. Free.

Traditional Irish Session, Maguire’s Public House, 54-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens. 9:30 p.m. 718-429-9426.

Friday, 8/7

The Five Deadly Venoms, NYC-based bluegrass outfit, plays the Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 10:30 p.m. $10 cover.

Joe Iadanza , a LI-based singer-songwriter and guitarist with a strikingly unusual tenor voice and a growing repertoire of smart, witty, warm, and stick-in-your-ear humable songs, whose music spans the genres of folk, rock, roots and Americana, at times harkening back to a bygone era with its European jazz feel, performs as part of the First Fridays series at The Heckscher Museum of Art in Heckscher Park, 2 Prime Avenue, off Main Street (Route 25A), Huntington. (www.heckscher.org). 631-351-3250. 7-8:30 p.m. Admission to the museum is free after 5 p.m. on the first Friday of each month.

Island Songwriters Showcase (ISS) Open Mic at Border’s Café, Jericho Turnpike (Route 25), Syosset. 8 p.m. Those wishing to perform must sign-up with Vinny Crici at 7:30 p.m. (www.islandsongwriters.org).

Saturday, 8/8

Crosby, Stills & Nash play the Nikon Theater at Jones Beach in Wantagh. 8 p.m.

Saturday Night Jam, Sunny’s, 253 Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.

Sunday, 8/9

Fourteen Feet, New York-based roots rock outfit, plays acoustic at RS Jones, 153 Merrick Avenue, Merrick. 7:30 p.m.

Ponkiesburg Pickin’ Party, weekly traditional acoustic music jam features dashes of country, old-time, bluegrass, blues and folk at Kili, 81 Hoyt Street (between State & Atlantic), Brooklyn. 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarist plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 8/10

Caroline Doctorow, roots-oriented, LI-based singer-songwriter, performs at the gazebo on Main Street as part of the Montauk Outdoor Concert Series. 6 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Dave March, Once & For All, 8 E. Main Street, Patchogue. 631-447-0519. 8 p.m.

Wednesday 8/12

Acoustic Long Island features an hour-long open mic, followed by a featured artist TBA, Deepwells Mansion, Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection), St. James. 8 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.

Homegrown String Band (Inspired by the rural string bands of the early 20th century, Long Island’s Jackofsky family has been performing traditional and neo-traditional acoustic American roots music and lively originals together for more than a decade), performs at the North Merrick Public Library, 1691 Meadowbrook Road, North Merrick. 516-378-7474. 7 p.m. Free.

James O’Malley, a gifted and gentle-voiced LI-based singer-songwriter and two-time finalist in the Plowshares Songwriting Competition, performs as part of the new, weekly Picnic Supper Concerts series presented by the Greater Port Jefferson-Northern Brookhaven Arts Council. Harborside Park on the water, next to the Port Jefferson Village Center, 101 East Broadway, Port Jefferson. (www.gpjac.org). 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Bring blankets or chairs.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 8/13

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 8 p.m. 631-264-0564.

Acoustic Thursdays, hosted by Dave Drew,features The Last Internationale and more, Lefty’s Candlelight Bar & Grill, 543 W. Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst. 631-225-5526. 8 p.m. No cover.

Strings n’ Things Open Mic Night, presented by the Smithtown Township Arts Council, at the Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, Smithtown. (www.stacarts.org). 631-862-6575. 8-10:30 p.m. Sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m. Free.

Traditional Irish Session, Maguire’s Public House, 54-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens. 9:30 p.m. 718-429-9426.

Friday, 8/14

Caroline Doctorow, roots-oriented, LI-based singer-songwriter, performs for the Grounds and Sounds Café at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stony Brook, 380 Nicolls Road, Setauket. 8:45 p.m. concert is preceded by an open mic at 8 p.m., for which sign-up starts at 7:30 p.m. (www.groundsandsounds.org). $10.

Grand Folk Railroad, acoustic duo of Mike Christian and Susan Cohen, plays The Cup, 3268 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh. 8 p.m. $1 cover.

Homegrown String Band (Inspired by the rural string bands of the early 20th century, Long Island’s Jackofsky family has been performing traditional and neo-traditional acoustic American roots music and lively originals together for more than a decade), performs at the Hauppauge Public Library (outdoors, weather permitting), 601 Veterans Memorial Highway, Hauppauge. 631-979-1600. 7 p.m. Free.

Saturday, 8/15

Acoustic Nite (with local performers Otan Vargas, The Reinharts, Terrence Escalera and more), Lefty’s Candlelight Bar & Grill, 543 W. Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst. 631-225-5526. 8 p.m.

Homegrown String Band (Inspired by the rural string bands of the early 20th century, Long Island’s Jackofsky family has been performing traditional and neo-traditional acoustic American roots music and lively originals together for more than a decade), performs at the Longwood Public Library, 800 Middle Country Road, Middle Island. 631-924-6400. 2 p.m. Free.

Long Island Bluegrass Festival, presented by the Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts and the Town of Babylon, features music by Blue Detour, Caroline Doctorow, Free Grass Union, Joyce Hartsfield, Buddy Merriam & Back Roads, James Reams & the Barnstormers, Josh Williams Band and Yankee Rebels, plus workshop tents, music by the bay and a food court. Tanner Park, Kerrigan Road, Copiague. (www.babylonarts.com). 631-587-3696. 12-8 p.m. $10; children under 12 admitted free. Bring a lawn chair.

Sunday, 8/16

Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange monthly in-the-round hosted by Rebecca Pronsky, features Valorie Miller (from Asheville, North Carolina) and Joe Whyte, at Union Hall, 702 Union Street at Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn. 8 p.m. 718-638-4400. No cover.

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarist plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 8/17

Marshall Crenshaw, The Stephen Talkhouse, 161 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3117. 8 p.m. $35; $50.

Open Mic with Dave March, Once & For All, 8 E. Main Street, Patchogue. 631-447-0519. 8 p.m.

Tuesday, 8/18

Open Mic, Brickhouse Brewery, 67 West Main Street, Patchogue. 9 p.m.

Open Mic, Napper Tandy’s Irish Pub, 275 Route 25A, Miller Place. 8 p.m. to midnight.

Wednesday, 8/19

Acoustic Long Island features an hour-long open mic, followed by a featured artist TBA, Deepwells Mansion, Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection), St. James. 8 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, 8/20

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 631-264-0564. 8 p.m.

Acoustic Thursdays, hosted by Dave Drew, Lefty’s Candlelight Bar & Grill, 543 W. Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst. 631-225-5526. 8 p.m.

Friday, 8/21

Leo Kottke, innovative, finger-picking guitar virtuoso, plays the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach. (www.whbpac.org). 631-288-1500. 8:30 p.m. $20-$50.

Saturday, 8/22

Larry Moser and Mary Nagin sing and play old-time music under the tree behind the Noon Inn at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, 1303 Round Swamp Road (Exit 48 of the Long Island Expressway), Old Bethpage. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Museum admission: $ $7 for seniors and children ages 5-12.

Sunday, 8/23

Loggins & Messina play the Nikon Theater at Jones Beach in Wantagh. 8 p.m.

Larry Moser and Mary Nagin sing and play old-time music under the tree behind the Noon Inn at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, 1303 Round Swamp Road (Exit 48 of the Long Island Expressway), Old Bethpage. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Museum admission: $ $7 for seniors and children ages 5-12.

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarist plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 8/24

Open Mic with Dave March, Once & For All, 8 E. Main Street, Patchogue. 631-447-0519. 8 p.m.

Tuesday, 8/25

Open Mic, Brickhouse Brewery, 67 West Main Street, Patchogue. 9 p.m.

Open Mic, Napper Tandy’s Irish Pub, 275 Route 25A, Miller Place. 8 p.m. to midnight.

Wednesday, 8/26

Acoustic Long Island features an hour-long open mic, followed by a featured artist TBA, Deepwells Mansion, Route 25A (just west of Moriches Road intersection), St. James. 8 p.m. (www.acousticlongisland.com). Free.

Open Mic, Cool Beanz, 556 North Country Road (Route 25A), St. James. 8-11 p.m.

Open Mic, Spike Hill, 186 Bedford Avenue (corner of 7th Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 718-218-9737. 7 p.m.

Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk, old-time and blues music, at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. 718-375-3214. 9:30 p.m.

Pat Wictor, a top-notch blues and roots-oriented singer-songwriter and lap slide guitarist, performs as part of the new, weekly Picnic Supper Concerts series presented by the Greater Port Jefferson-Northern Brookhaven Arts Council. Harborside Park on the water, next to the Port Jefferson Village Center, 101 East Broadway, Port Jefferson. (www.gpjac.org). 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Bring blankets or chairs.

Thursday, 8/27

Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by Joe Vicino, Toomey’s Tavern, 251 South Ketcham Avenue, Amityville. 8 p.m. 631-264-0564.

The Chelsea String Band hails from New York but plays and sings old-time music from the southern Appalachians, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Strings n’ Things Open Mic Night, presented by the Smithtown Township Arts Council, at the Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, Smithtown. (www.stacarts.org). 631-862-6575. 8-10:30 p.m. Sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m. Free.

Traditional Irish Session, Maguire’s Public House, 54-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Queens. 9:30 p.m. 718-429-9426.

Friday, 8/28

Miller’s Crossing, LI-based bluegrass band, Grey Horse Tavern, 291 Bayport Avenue, Bayport. 631-472-1868. 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, 8/29

Acoustic Nite (featuring Dave Drew and more), Lefty’s Candlelight Bar & Grill, 543 W. Hoffman Avenue, Lindenhurst. 631-225-5526. 8 p.m.

Sunday, 8/30

Stephane Wrembel presents The Django Experiment, French virtuoso guitarist plays in Reinhardt’s style, Barbes, 376 9th Street (corner of 6th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

Monday, 8/31

“Just Wild About Harry” Chapin tribute concert features a number of Long Island-based artists performing songs by the late singer-songwriter, storyteller, community activist, humanitarian and philanthropist, on the stage that bears his name at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. 7:30 p.m. Free, although cans of food for distribution to needy Long Islanders through Long Island Cares, the nonprofit organization launched by Chapin, would be appreciated. Bring blankets or lawn chairs.