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 2010 season schedule is below.

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Celebrate Brooklyn 2010 Schedule

Wednesday, June 9

Celebrate Brooklyn! announces Norah Jones to open the 2010 season! Wednesday, June 9, 2010 8:00 p.m. Grammy Award Winner and Brooklyn resident Norah Jones will open the 2010 Celebrate Brooklyn season.

Saturday, June 12

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Allen Toussaint and Davell Crawford! Saturday, June 12, 2010 7:30 p.m. Allen Toussaint has produced, arranged for, or collaborated with everyone from Dr. John to the Neville Brothers to Irma Thomas.

Thursday, June 17

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Eugene Mirman & Pretty Good Friends Thursday, June 17, 2010 7:30 p.m.  “Mirman has a skewed observational wit rather than a sweaty Friar’ Club shtick…and kills with self-deprecating ease.” (Spin).

Friday, June 18

Celebrate Brooklyn! JG Thirlwell's Steroid Maximus and Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio Friday, June 18, 2010 7:30 p.m. JG Thirlwell is an elusive but profoundly influential presence in New York City’s underground music world....his varied oeuvre...is linked by a dramatic intensity and an evocative, cinematic quality.

Saturday, June 19

Celebrate Brooklyn! Bitches Brew Revisited Saturday, June 19, 2010 7:30 p.m. While the soul of the master is manifest in the project, the music stretches out into otherworldly territory, becoming “whatever it was Davis intended in 1969: spacious, black-magic stealth funk.” (NY Times)

Thursday, June 24

UPDATE: Celebrate Brooklyn!The free performance by the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club(r) has been CANCELLED Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:30 p.m. UPDATE: Celebrate Brooklyn!The free performance by the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club(r)  has been CANCELLED

Friday, June 25

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Kid Koala Friday, June 25, 2010 7:30 p.m. "DJ, graphic novelist, musician, and producer of rare ingenuity, Kid Koala...serves up a sampling of his far flung talents here..."

Saturday, June 26

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents The Texas Tornados and The Red Clay Ramblers Saturday, June 26, 2010 7:30 p.m. On tour and on their new album Esta Bueno!, which came out earlier this year, Shawn Sahm steps to the front and “pulls off his dad's old tricks with a few of his own” (Austin Chronicle).

Tuesday, June 29

Celebrate Brooklyn! Passion Pit Benefit Show (Sold Out) Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:00 p.m. Angelakos notes the bizarre scene in front of him but never loses sight of why he’s here, of his calling to craft pitch-perfect pop songs—hooks that nip at your heels and choruses that burrow into your brain.

Thursday, July 1

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents ZOOM: ZviDance Thursday, July 1, 2010 8 p.m. The Village Voice "...shatters the wall between audience and performers, with photos and text conversations from the crowd becoming an exhilarating, interactive real-time video collage of images and unscripted dialogue to which the dancers respond.”

Friday, July 2

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents The Fab 5 and Uzalo Friday, July 2, 2010 7:30 p.m. The Fab 5 embody the history of reggae and live up to their billing as “Jamaica's #1 Showband.

Thursday, July 8

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Itutu: Armitage Gone! Dance Thursday, July 8, 2010 4 p.m. Karole Armitage... “is always pushing the limits of possibility, spectacularly deconstructing the body with a diabolic flair" (Le Nouvel Observateur, France).

Friday, July 9

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Ozomatli, Fidel Nadal and Toy Selectah Friday, July 9, 2010 7:00 p.m. “This is what the block party of the future will sound like.” (PopMatters)

Sunday, July 11

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents OkayAfrica with The Roots and Talib Kweli Sunday, July 11, 2010. 5 p.m. Gates open at 4 p.m.i> With a kick-off by Sahr Ngaujah, the star of the hit Broadway musical Fela!, the show features performances by artists from all corners of the Diaspora...

Saturday, July 17

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents African Festival with Konono No. 1 Saturday, July 17, 2010 2 - 9 p.m. Gates open at 1 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.

Tuesday, July 20

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Rufus Wainwright Benefit Show Tuesday, July 20, 2010 7 p.m. Gates open at 6 p.m. With special guest, Loudon Wainwright III.

Thursday, July 22

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents The Chaplin Mutuals: Carl Davis Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:30 p.m. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. The Brooklyn-born, UK-based Carl Davis, a conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra...will conduct the fantastic Brooklyn Philharmonic in live performances of his original scores...

Friday, July 23

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Bomba Estereo, La Secta Allstar and Navagante. Friday, July 23, 2010 7 p.m. Gates open at 6 p.m. Hispanic Magazine describes this performance as “homegrown folkloric music being etched upon the global DNA of urban beats.”

Saturday, July 24

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Field of Dreams (Un Mundo Nuevo) Saturday, July 24, 2010 4 p.m. Gates open at 3 p.m. A DIY world's fair of music and art.

Tuesday, July 27

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents The National Benefit Show (Sold Out) Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:00 p.m. "The National’s music is not easy to describe, but it’s very easy to listen to." -Alec Hanley Bemis, Brassland Music

Thursday, July 29

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents MI21: Mother India 21st Century Remix Thursday, July 29, 2010 8 p.m. Gates open at 7 p.m. MI21 re-imagines the three-hour epic [Mother India] into an impressionistic 60 minutes of arresting imagery with a live score by DJ Tigerstyle...

Friday, July 30

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents The Swell Season and The Low Anthem Friday, July 30, 2010 7:30 p.m. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. According to Rolling Stone Magazine their sophomore album Strict Joy delivers “hot Irish soul…energetic folk rock and dream-pop-touched balladry."

Saturday, July 31

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Sonic Youth, Grass Widow and Talk Normal Saturday, July 31, 2010 7 p.m. Gates open at 6 p.m. The No Wave pioneers have contributed as much over the last three decades as any band to the rise of alternative rock...

Tuesday, August 3

Celebrate Brooklyn! The Dead Weather Benefit Show with special guest, Harlem Tuesday, August 3, 2010. 7:30 p.m. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. Come see the new band consisting of Dean Fertita, Jack Lawrence, Alison Mosshart and Jack White.

Thursday, August 5

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Metric, Joan as Police Woman and Holy Miranda Thursday, August 5, 2010 7 p.m. Gates open at 6 p.m. Metric’s intense, always evolving fusion of psychedelia, disco, and electro-rock has made them one of the most exciting bands to emerge from the fertile Toronto music scene...

Friday, August 6

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents House of Usher: Marco Benevento Friday, August 6, 2010 7:30 p.m. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. Marco Benevento to write a new original score to this cult B-movie study in creeping, diabolical menace.

Saturday, August 7

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Daptone Review: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Saturday, August 7, 2010 7 p.m. Gates open at 6 p.m. Daptone Records takes a swing at a genuine soul revival in the heart of Brooklyn.

Sunday, August 8

Celebrate Brooklyn's Annual Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert Sunday, August 8, 2010 4 p.m. Gates open at 3 p.m. Come celebrate the close the 32nd season of Celebrate Brooklyn!