Eric Demby

Bed-Stuy-based Eric Demby was born into a community of Maine back-to-the-landers. Demby co-founded Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg in 2008, which followed a career as an electronic music and hip-hop journalist and then political speechwriter. In 1999 he co-founded Legalize Dancing NYC, launching a movement that eventually overturned the Cabaret Law, which impeded nightlife culture since 1926. He produced the reissue of hammer-dulcimerist Dorothy Carter’s 1976 debut LP, Troubadour, in 2024, and is currently at work on a screenplay centered around Carter, Constance Demby, and Bob Rutman’s pioneering avant-garde New Age community.