IMPORTANT NOTE: Please check the location of your event, as we host programming in multiple locations. We cannot delay launch or refund tickets if you arrive at the wrong spot.

  • Full Moon Gowanus Voyage – OCTOBER

    Full Moon Tours
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Join our Crew on a sunset and full-moon guided adventure!! Meet at the the Gowanus Dredgers Bunker, at the end of 19th St / off 3rd Ave, 11232 - NOT our 2nd St. boathouse. Tickets required, available via eventbrite.

  • Gowanus Jug & String Band Sessions

    Gowanus Jug & String Band Sessions
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Tuesday evenings, 6-8:30 April through October. Join our weekly Jug & String Band!
    These sessions will be open to Intermediate and above players, and we encourage you to sing along and bring a song to lead.

    $5 – $10
  • Brooklyn Folk Festival: Banjo Toss Competition

    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    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 in the - BANJO TOSS: BANJO THROWING COMPETITION! The special "throwing banjo", attached to a rope is tossed into the canal, a federally designate 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.

    FREE