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Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents African Festival with Konono No. 1
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.
Saturday, July 17, 2010 2 - 9 p.m. Gates open at 1 p.m.
with Omar Pene & Super Diamono, Chiwoniso, Meta & the Cornerstones and Djarara
Our annual celebration of African music, food and culture builds to an ecstatic crescendo with the distortion-fueled trance music of Congolese thumb-piano wizards Konono No. 1. Dakar heavyweights Omar Pene & Super Diamono, seminal figures in the birth of the modern Senegalese sound, add a jolt of energy to the proceedings, while the distinctive voice of Zimbabwean Afro-soul diva Chiwoniso, the pan-African reggae of Meta & The Cornerstones, and the festival horns and drums from Haiti’s Djarara bring other unique flavors to the day.
$3 suggested donation. At the Bandshell.
More information
• Celebrate Brooklyn homepage
• Click here to see the Bandshell on our Interactive Map.
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