TEMPO Concert Hall & Lounge ~ Doors 1 PM | Music 2 PM - 11 PM

After a three year run at the Race Brook Lodge in Sheffield Mass, the Down County Jump festival crosses the Hudson to Kingston, NY!

TEMPO, in partnership with Brooklyn's beloved Jalopy Theatre and Hound Horse Dove Productions, is thrilled to present a full day deep dive into the living roots of American and world vernacular music featuring 13 bands on 2 stages with food, drink, merriment and endless dancing!

Featuring:

Tim Eriksen • Hubby Jenkins • Jackson & the Janks • Pulso de Barro • Eva Salina & Peter Stan • The Lucky 5 • Jenny Parrott • Matt Munisteri • Osei Essed • Les Taiauts • Moonshine Holler • Phil Roebuck

Advance Tickets: $60 early bird before May 5th / $70 pre-sale
Door Tickets: $80 day of show
All tickets are general admission.

TIM ERIKSEN The only performer to have shared a stage with both Kurt Cobain and Doc Watson. The sole recipient of the Jean Ritchie Musical Heritage Award — given by Ritchie herself. BBC Radio 2 calls him "the best traditional American ballad singer of his generation." T-Bone Burnett simply calls him "one of the best singers in music." He led the choir at the 76th Academy Awards, sang on and consulted for the Oscar-winning Cold Mountain, and wrote Joan Baez's final recorded song. Alison Krauss released his "Granite Mills" in 2025. A Wesleyan ethnomusicologist, punk survivor, shapenote revivalist, and student of South Indian vina — Tim Eriksen contains multitudes, and every one of them can sing.

HUBBY JENKINS Born and raised in Brooklyn, Jenkins discovered his Southern roots through Skip James and Bukka White, then educated himself on the sidewalks and subway platforms of New York City before joining the Grammy-nominated Carolina Chocolate Drops and later Rhiannon Giddens' band — performing at festivals and venues across the globe. A virtuoso on guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bones, Jenkins moves through country blues, ragtime, fiddle tradition, and traditional jazz as if he were born in every one of them simultaneously, which in some essential American sense, he was.

JACKSON & THE JANKS Born in Ireland, raised on the Lower East Side, apprenticed on Royal Street in New Orleans alongside Sierra Ferrell and Tuba Skinny, and now holding down a Friday night residency at the Jalopy Tavern — Jackson Lynch and his Janks have built a sound the way you build a fire: sacred steel on top, bass saxophone underneath, and something roaring in the middle. Their 2025 Jalopy Records album Write It Down was recorded to vintage tape in New Orleans and draws on Bobby Charles, Irma Thomas, and Bo Diddley while sounding like nothing but itself. Garage gospel. The night does not end until they say so.

PULSO DE BARRO The name means "pulse of the clay," and that is precisely what this Kingston-based collective delivers: a ceremony-celebration rooted in Son Jarocho, the four-hundred-year-old music born at the collision of African Yoruba rhythms, Andalusian melody, and indigenous voices on the Gulf Coast of Veracruz. Led by María Puente Flores and Mateo Cano, drawing on heritages Mexican, Cuban, Venezuelan, and Puerto Rican, Pulso plays jarana, leona, quijada, tarima, maracas, and marimba — and they dance. Every fandango they play is both a concert and a commons. By the second song, people form conga lines.

EVA SALINA & PETER STAN California-born Eva Salina has been immersed in the singing traditions of the Balkans since childhood — studying under masters, earning a UCLA ethnomusicology degree, performing at Carnegie Hall and the Library of Congress, and releasing acclaimed records on Vogiton that have landed on NPR, WNYC, fRoots, and the CMJ World Charts. Peter Stan, born in Australia to Roma parents from Banat, grew up playing accordion at three-day Serbian parties where money flew onto the floor like confetti. Together they perform the intimate kafana repertoire of Balkan Romani music — the listening songs that get overlooked in favor of brass bands — with a tenderness, precision, and open-heartedness that is simply rare.

THE LUCKY 5 The Berkshires' own hot jazz institution, named in the tradition of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, the Lucky 5 blends 1920s and '30s swing with gypsy and Parisian flavors to keep feet moving and spirits aloft. Their seasoned musicians have toured and recorded with Neko Case, Iris DeMent, Del McCoury, and Bobby Previte, and the Hot Sardines have called them the band that "owns swing in the Berkshires." They are right. Guitarist Kip Beacco, violinist Jonathan Talbot, trombonist/vocalist Carolyn Dufraine, bassist Matt Downing, and drummer Tom Parker — the math adds up to considerably more than five.

JENNY PARROTT An Austin, Texas original whose debut solo album was named one of the Austin Chronicle's Top 10 Albums of the Year, Jenny Parrott performs with guitar, synth, omnichord, and a three-plus octave voice that can move from languid tenderness to avant-folk electricity in a single phrase. She has opened for Lake Street Dive, Shinyribs, and Jonathan Richman. She has played prisons, Black Panther reunion parties, and children's shows. She has hosted femme jams across Austin to give women and non-binary musicians a room of their own. The Austin Chronicle describes her work as songs that feel like someone is seeing you more than she's seeing herself.

MATT MUNISTERI The New Yorker called him "a present-day ironist with a prewar — first World War, that is — heart." A Brooklyn native who was playing bluegrass banjo before his tenth birthday, Matt Munisteri is now regarded as one of the handful of truly authoritative acoustic jazz guitarists working in the pre-electric tradition — a first-call studio musician for any project requiring a 1920s or '30s period sound, and a sideman and arranger on Grammy-winning records for Loudon Wainwright and Catherine Russell. He has collaborated with Vince Giordano, Bucky Pizzarelli, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Julian Lage. A virtuoso who makes virtuosity invisible.

OSEI ESSED and WOLFSUIT Born in the Netherlands to Surinamese parents, raised between two countries, now rooted in Brooklyn — Osei Essed is a composer, performer, and multi-platform artist whose film scores include Emmy-winning documentaries Finders Keepers and Jim: The James Foley Story, the Sundance Jury Award–winning Always in Season, and the Oscar-winning short Period. End of Sentence. He performs with Brooklyn bands The Woes and Big Hands Rhythm and Blues Band. At the Jump this year he debuts a new project and new album Wolfsuit — a soulful duo with celebrated guitarist Simon Kafka.

LES TAIAUTS Their name comes from an old Cajun cry — the "taiauts," the fox-hunting call that gave its name to one of the most joyful Acadian songs in the canon. Led by fiddler and accordionist Rafe Wolman, who has made countless trips to Louisiana and learned the music directly from its source, Les Taiauts play Cajun dancehall music from the deep well of Southwest Louisiana tradition: two-steps, waltzes, French-language rockabilly, and the kind of music that makes a room understand, suddenly and physically, what the word fais do-do means. Dance lessons provided. Hesitation not recommended.

MOONSHINE HOLLER Paula Bradley has toured Germany and the United States with old-time darlings Uncle Earl, recorded and toured with banjo innovator Tony Trischka and traditionalist Bruce Molsky, and appears on Trischka's Territory, named Best Americana Album by the Independent Music Awards. Paula has been mining 1920s and '30s recorded string band music for thirty years.

PHIL ROEBUCK Virginia-born, New York-bred, and educated in the New Orleans streets where he busked Royal Street to keep himself fed — Phil Roebuck is a one-man band of the old and radical school: five-string banjo at breakneck speed, a depression-era drum apparatus strapped to his back, and punk rock intensity in service of the deepest roots. Recorded by Steve Albini. Inspired by Dock Boggs and Uncle Dave Macon. Featured on John Peel's radio programme. A thousand shows across the US and Europe. A writer of an operetta for Juilliard. He has now joined forces with his wife Phoenix on upright bass, and the thing has only gotten more combustible.

PUEBLOS TRISTES Named for the lonely settlements scattered across the Llanos — those wide-open Venezuelan plains where the joropo was born and where the wind carries more music than most concert halls — Pueblos Tristes is the new duo project of multi-instrumentalist Alex Harvey and singer-folklorist Adrianna Perrichi of Pulso de Barro. Drawing on the songbook of Simón Díaz, Cecilia Todd, and Otilio Galíndez — the great masters of Venezuelan plains music as well as a variety of forms from the Spanish and Portuguese language diaspora — and shaped by many nights of deep listening and collaboration in the Hudson Valley's Latin folk community, Pueblos Tristes makes its debut tonight. Sad towns, beautiful music. Come and witness the beginning of something.

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Tempo Kingston is a project of Kingston Music Initiative (KMI).
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The Down County Jump Festival

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