Prospect Park Bandshell

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The Prospect Park Bandshell is not only the Park's main attraction for live outdoor entertainment, but one of New York City's most exciting venues. The Bandshell is best known for hosting the Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival, a series of music, dance, film, and spoken word performances held each summer from June through August, showcasing an extraordinary diversity of legendary, current, and up-and-coming artists. Produced by Brooklyn Information and Culture (BRIC), the festival attracts nearly a quarter million concert-goers per season, with musical tastes ranging from funky HipHop to modern jazz to Afro-Brazilian fusion rock.

With its three-story high acoustic shell, raised stage, and large circular plaza, the Bandshell features food and beer/wine concessions, public restrooms, and first come first serve seating in the 2000-seat plaza or 5000-capacity lawn. In addition to musical performances, the Bandshell hosts film events. It is one of the largest outdoor cinemas in the world, with a 21 foot high and 50 foot wide movie screen showing classic films like Rebel Without a Cause and Metropolis.

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Thursday, July 13
7:30pm
YO LA TENGO: THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE / SAMARA LUBELSKI
Adventures in sight and sound: the great experimental alt rock trio returns to Celebrate Brooklyn to perform its live score to a collection of the surreally beautiful short documentaries of underwater life by the revolutionary French filmmaker Jean Painlevé. The dreamy, atmospheric compositions of multi-instrumentalist SAMARA LUBELSKI set the mood.




Friday, July 14
8pm
BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC
The dynamic young American conductor Robert Moody makes his Brooklyn Philharmonic and Prospect Park debut conducting the nationally acclaimed orchestra, which makes its 27th appearance at Celebrate Brooklyn with a program of crowd-pleasing classics. "The most intellectually enticing and emotionally gripping concerts in New York." (The New Yorker)




Saturday, July 15
7:30pm
NORTEC COLLECTIVE / BETO & RICHIE GRUPO SOÑADOR
Tijuana's NORTEC COLLECTIVE makes a mischievous blend of electronica and traditional Northern Mexican music that is "frighteningly original and refreshingly cool," (Rolling Stone) which they combine in live performance with an eye-popping kaleidoscope of images-projected here on our giant screen, for maximum sensory overload. Nortec's countrymen GRUPO SOÑADOR add some authentic cumbia poblana style to the festivities. Presented with support from the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.