Celebrate Brooklyn!
Brooklyn-bred powerhouse Junglepussy and DJ Tygapaw will spin throughout the evening. Mari World will infuse the early set with his high-energy performance.
Dance Hip Hop / RapRITA INDIANA shares the stage with LIDO PIMIENTA and the boundary-pushing Dominican-Italian singer YEИDRY.
Dance IndieYAEJI takes over the Bandshell to headline and curate a hand-picked lineup that includes KEIYAA and NAPPY NINA.
DanceSan Fermin, a Brooklyn-based chamber pop collective and Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet start things off and innovative guitarist and singer Son Little, will hold down the middle set. Both will join San Fermin for a mashup finale.
Classical Folk IndieFounded in 2016 by Tatiana Desardouin with a mission to promote the authenticity and contributions of social dance styles and cultures like street and clubbing, Passion Fruit Dance Company comes to the park for the world premiere of TRAPPED, a brand new work with developmental support from BRIC, and developed at MASS MoCA and the Guggenheim’s Works & Process residency program.
DanceMR EAZI will light the Bandshell on fire. AJO will warm up the stage and DJ BEMBONA opens.
R&B / Soul World MusicTROMBONE SHORTY brings this historic season to an explosive conclusion with his notorious brass funk band Orleans Avenue.
Jazz
The documentary film, Wattstax, directed by Mel Stuart, follows the 1972 Watts Summer Festival, founded to commemorate the Watts Riots of 1965.
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Due to COVID-19 capacity restrictions, BRIC is not able to sell Friends Memberships to the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at this time. We are working tirelessly with the NYC Parks Department and Prospect Park Alliance to determine capacity levels for this summer.
If you purchased a membership during our 2020 Festival please email us at membership@bricartsmedia.org.
Major Leadership Support for BRIC’s performing arts programs are generously provided by Howard Gilman Foundation, Lambent Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Public support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support for BRIC’s performing arts program is provided by Con Edison, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Scherman Foundation, Shubert Organization, Inc., as well as support from friends, members, and numerous individuals.
One of New York City's Longest Running, Free, Outdoor Performing Arts Festivals.
Launched in 1979 to bring the borough together, the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival was an early anchor in the park's revitalization and has become one of the city's foremost summer cultural attractions.
All BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival performances are free! The festival attracts upwards of 200,000 attendees from across New York City to the Prospect Park Bandshell each summer.
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