Jan Bell
Founder Director Brooklyn Americana Music Festival. Singer Songwriter w/The Maybelles.
- Role
- Singer Songwriter Band Leader the Maybelles at The Independent Music Awards
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jan Bell
Founder and Artistic Director, Jan Bell, curates live performance at several festival venues year-round, booking 400+ bands per year. The festival draws from and highlights NYC based artists and touring bands from across country. Outdoor stages in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Pier 6, and in the Dumbo Archway at the square foot Manhattan Bridge Plaza. Indoor venues are pioneer artist owned and operated establishments along the waterfront by the Brooklyn Bridge. Namely Superfine, 68 Jay St, Sunnys Red Hook, Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, and Powerhouse Arena. 2019 saw the addition of the brand new Time Out Market Roof Top Stage overlooking the East River. Jan Bell has curated stages at several locations at the DUMBO Arts Festival since Her Little Red Hen loading dock stages presented fifteen bands over two days, with many of those artists going on to international success including Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, Carnegie Hall, The Royal Albert Hall and festival stages around the world. Many of those locations have developed into commercial enterprises along the waterfront. When the Arts Festival folded in 2014, Jan decided to keep the live music going expanding in a new direction by creating the Brooklyn Americana Music Festival. With the encouragement of Eric L. Adams (then Brooklyn Borough President. NYC Mayor 2022) Now entering year eight, the BKAMF is a five-day event featuring 60 free live music performances. Curatorial focus continues to program emerging artists alongside more established artists from Brooklyn and beyond. Relationships between the festival’s artists are a formative ground for networking and tour support between Brooklyn-based bands and artist organizers when planning routing around the country. in 2020 Brooklyn Americana \'Long Distance\' Festival went entirely online, commissioning sixty artists to participate. Over 40K viewers tuned in around the world to see and hear original songs created during lock down, quarantine, or stay at home orders. Forty NYC artists, alongside artists from twelve other states, and nine countries participated. 2021 saw the return to outdoor in person performances, safely attended according to NYC guidelines and mutually adopted industry protocols.
Experience
Singer Songwriter Band Leader the Maybelles
Jan 2003 — Present · New York, NY, US
An EXPERT BAND! Celtic tinged, Appalachian influenced repertoire puts their album in my Top Ten Folk Albums.” - Chuck Eddy — Village Voice “British-born, Brooklyn-residing Jan Bell leads the Maybelles into up-tempo, soulful country.” - Recommended — Time Out NY
Education
Bretton Hall, Leeds University, England.
Community Theatre Arts
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