BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! announces 47th season lineup featuring Grace Jones, Janelle Monae and More * Brooklyn Paper
Briefly

The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! festival, New York's longest-running free outdoor concert series, is set to run from June 7 to August 16. This year’s theme, 'Where Brooklyn Meets... The World,' showcases the borough's vibrant and diverse cultural landscape through a lineup of both emerging and established artists. The event, hosted at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park, will feature 14 free shows and benefit concerts, emphasizing Brooklyn's role as a global music crossroads. Executive director Saidah Blount highlighted the unifying power of the arts in shaping a community's cultural identity.
The festival's theme, 'Where Brooklyn Meets... The World,' celebrates the borough's status as a global music crossroads with programming that spans continents, generations and artistic disciplines.
Saidah Blount, executive director of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, said that the Lena Horne Bandshell transforms into a global gathering place where rhythms and cultures from around the world meet.
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