| Celebrate Brooklyn
A program of BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn, Celebrate Brooklyn! has brought over 30 summers of music, dance, theater, and film to the Prospect Park Bandshell. The 2009 season schedule is below.
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Celebrate Brooklyn 2009 Schedule
Monday, June 8 |
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Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents David Byrne
Monday, June 8, 8 p.m.
Best known for his groundbreaking tenure fronting the new wave group Talking Heads, David Byrne's solo work was no less adventurous, encroaching upon such diverse media as world music, filmmaking, and performance art. |
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Thursday, June 11 |
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Friday, June 19 |
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Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents David Rudder
Friday, June 19, 2009 7:30 p.m.
"David Rudder's local debut at the Music Machine with Charlie's Roots .....clearly established the singer as the most potent representative of the vibrant soca sound." Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times (July 28, 1992). |
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Saturday, June 20 |
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Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents La Nave de los Monstruos
Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Postclassical string quartet, Ethel, teams up with Gutbucket to perform a new original score to the vintage Mexican science fiction classic La Nave De Los Monstruos (The Monsters’ Ship, 1959). |
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Thursday, June 25 |
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Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Femi Kuti & The Positive Force
Thursday, June 25, 2009 7 p.m.
The New York Times has championed as the group’s music as “thick, musky Afro-funk—a polyrhythmic elaboration on James Brown’s late-1960s sound—with lyrics that focus on government oppression and the problems of modern Africans.” |
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Friday, June 26 |
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Saturday, June 27 |
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Wednesday, July 1 |
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Thursday, July 2 |
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Thursday, July 9 |
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Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents STREB: Invisible Forces
Thursday, July 9, 2009 8 p.m.
The Village Voice recently said of the company: “Streb’s unique movement art—kin to sport, circus, physics experiment, and hard labor—has reached a peak of theatricality and dare-all virtuosity.” |
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Friday, July 10 |
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Saturday, July 11 |
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Thursday, July 16 |
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Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Kronos Quartet
Thursday, July 16, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Their repertoire runs the gamut from Bartók to Charles Mingus to Jimi Hendrix, and their collaborators have been as diverse as Philip Glass, Asha Bhosle, and Nine Inch Nails. |
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Friday, July 17 |
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Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents The Robert Cray Band
Friday, July 17, 2009 7:30 p.m.
According to Rolling Stone, the five-time Grammy-winning Stratocaster legend Robert Cray makes “soul-infused blues [that] has become the bridge between traditional and contemporary.” |
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Saturday, July 18 |
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Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents African Festival
Saturday, July 18, 2009 2 - 9 p.m.
Celebrate Brooklyn!’s annual all-day festival of music, food and crafts features a lineup of music selected to keep dancers moving into the night. |
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Tuesday, July 21 |
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Thursday, July 23 |
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Friday, July 24 |
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Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Buckwheat Zydeco
Friday, July 24, 2009 7:30 p.m.
The swamp boogie accordion master Buckwheat Zydeco and his band “spit out the kind of crackling music that's been missing since the heyday of Stax Records,” says The Wall Street Journal |
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Saturday, July 25 |
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Thursday, July 30 |
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Friday, July 31 |
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Saturday, August 1 |
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Thursday, August 6 |
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Friday, August 7 |
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Saturday, August 8 |
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Tuesday, August 11 |
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Wednesday, August 12 |
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Friday, August 14 |
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