Brooklyn Folk Festival's Banjo Toss Competition at the Gowanus Canal

Brooklyn Folk Festival 2018
Brooklyn Folk Festival 2018
Sun Nov 9, 2025
1:00pm to 2:30pm ET
Age: All ages
Price: FREE
Location:
Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club
166 2nd Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11231
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Each year, as part of the Brooklyn Folk Festival, contestants gather on the banks of the fetid Gowanus Canal to see who can throw a banjo the farthest. The special “throwing banjo” is attached to a rope is tossed into the canal, a federally designated Super Fund site. The marked rope pays out, showing how far the banjo has been tossed. It is then hauled back in for the next throw.  

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