Hosted by Shafer Hall & Alex Battles. For more information on the festival visit: brooklyncountrymusic.com Alex Battles founded the Brooklyn Country Music Festival in 2004 to promote the borough's burgeoning original music scene. Now in its sixth installment, the Brooklyn Country Music Festival has always highlighted New York City's finest country songwriters. Living in the top-40-country-radio-free zone of New York City allows local country musicians and songwriters to create music in a sonic vacuum. Consider it a new outlaw movement, if you will. The performers certainly do. *** The 6th Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival September 17-19, 2009 @ Southpaw 125 5th Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11217 718-230-0236 Admission: $10 a day Limited number of $25 3-day passes available on Ticketweb Thursday, September 17, 2009 8pm Sammo (sack'n'soul) 9pm Alana Amram & The Rough Gems (country folk) 10pm Sean Kershaw & The New Jack Ramblers (hi-octane honky tonk) 11pm Andy Friedman & The Golden Winners (art country) mid The Defibulators (whackabilly) Friday, September 18, 2009 8pm The Wicked Messengers (woodstock twangadelica) 9pm Julia Haltigan & The Hooligans (antique pop-americana) 10pm M Shanghai String Band (eclectic acoustic folk/bluegrass) 11pm Jack Grace Band (New York's legendary "martini cowboy") mid The Woes (soulful Delta Blues) with WNYU DJ Honky Tonk Radio Girl Saturday, September 19, 2009 4pm The Havens (twangy string band) 5pm Dock Oscar & The Ambassadors of Love (full pedal ...
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