It was all about collaboration at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park, as musicians blended Rock n’ roll with R&B, Electronic with Hip-Hop, and Classical flair with Indie Rock.

It was a music lover’s delight at the Lena Horne Bandshell.

Almost two years after the last BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert, the series launched again on Saturday night at the newly renamed Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park. As if renaming the bandshell in honor of the great singer-actress-activist Lena Horne weren’t special enough, headliner Ari Lennox surprised fans with superstar rapper J. Cole, performing his verse on her hit “Shea Butter Baby” — which sent the capacity crowd into a frenzy.

“Looking at these films and the oeuvre they attest to, we find time and again the same desire to uncover powerful contemporary strategies, writes curator Caroline Ferreira on Elizabeth Orr’s work, “...shot in 2021 in the middle of a global pandemic, (Mind Gamed) immediately evokes that other invisible monster which has taken over the planet since the beginning of 2020 — that other foreign body which has come to contaminate healthy bodies.”