Sounds at Sunset

Presented and Produced by Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 6 

Curated by Brooklyn Americana Music. 

7pm The Maybelles

8pm  Tyrone Cotton

8:45pm Mike Younger

FREE ALL AGES EVENT

Tyrone Cotton folk, blues, soul, jazz and rock’n’roll. A fixture on the Louisville music scene for the past 30 years. His grandfather was a Baptist preacher, the Reverend Cleveland Roosevelt Williams, whose singing made him Cotton’s first musical hero. Other influences include Smokey Robinson, Guy Clark, and Sam Cooke, although he draws his greatest inspiration from Bob Dylan, of whom Cotton says, “He’s the mountain!” – 4 STARS Americana UK.

Mike Younger is a seasoned recording artist and troubadour in the blues, folk, country traditions who started out as a street musician. He was ‘discovered’ busking in New Orleans by country legend Rodney Crowell. His latest album ‘Burning the Big Top Down’ was made in Memphis. Younger’s song ‘ Poisoned Rivers’ was a rallying call during his activism at Standing Rock, and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Now based in Nashville TN, a recent Nashville Scene Critics Pick, and he raises livestock with his lady on a small acreage and keeps bees.

Jan Bell and her band The Maybelles are Independent Music Award winners. Three part harmony, country and Americana. Rima Fand on violin, Hilary Hawke banjo, and Tina Lama on upright bass. 

As Founder and Director of The Brooklyn Americana Music Festival now in its tenth year, Jan Bell is excited to bring a taste of the festival back to Pier 6, where her LGBTQ+ stage was Voted Best of Brooklyn (Empire State Awards) Cultural Event 2023.