Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents African Festival
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 18, 2009 2 - 9 p.m.
with with King Sunny Ade / Freshly Ground / The Mandingo Ambassadors / Cheikh M’Baye & Sing Sing / Abena Koomson / Yasser Darwish
A full day of food, clothing, crafts and music from across the African continent. This year’s headliner is the great King Sunny Adé of Nigeria. The bill also includes a rare U.S. appearance by South Africa’s Freshly Ground; The Mandingo Ambassadors, from NYC by way of Guinea, whose music “has been structured to make you feel good” (The New York Times); the wild Senegalese drum troupe Cheikh M’Baye & Sing Sing; the powerful Brooklyn-born, Ghanaian vocalist Abena Koomson; and whirling traditional Egyptian dancer, Yasser Darwish..
$3 suggested donation. At the Bandshell.
More information
• Celebrate Brooklyn homepage
• Click here to see the Bandshell on our Interactive Map.
