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Outdoor Kickoff Concert: Bettye LaVette

Bettye LaVette brings her powerful R&B magic to kick off BRIC JazzFest 2019 with an epic free concert at the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District’s fabulous outdoor public space, The Plaza at 300 Ashland. Co-presented with Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.

Date

SAT, OCT 19, 2019 | 3PM 

Cost

FREE

Location

The Plaza at 300 Ashland
Corner of Flatbush and Lafayette Avenues
Brooklyn, NY 11217
United States
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Bettye LaVette


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BRIC JazzFest kicks off with a free outdoor concert, co-presented with Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, featuring famed R&B songstress Bettye LaVette.

After beginning her career in 1962 at the age of 16, LaVette is one of a few artists who recorded and performed during the birth of soul music and who is still creating vital recordings today. Her first single “My Man – He’s a Loving Man,” was released on Atlantic Records, and over the next 50+ years, LaVette has performed around the world and recorded for numerous labels, and has been honored with several prestigious awards, including the W.C. Handy Award for Comeback Blues Album of the Year, Pioneer Award by The Rhythm & Blues Foundation, and two Blues Music Awards for Best Contemporary Female Blues Singer and Best Soul Blues Female Artist.

Nominated for five GRAMMY Awards, including for 2015’s Worthy and 2018’s Things Have Changed, an album of all Bob Dylan songs (Verve Records), LaVette brings her powerful R&B magic to kick off BRIC JazzFest 2019 with an epic free concert at the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District’s fabulous outdoor public space, The Plaza at 300 Ashland.


This concert is co-presented with Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, and in partnership with Two Trees Management Co. and Whole Foods.